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Re: Swoop hiring foreign scabs

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Victory wrote: Thu Apr 12, 2018 8:32 am It kind of sounds like people that got rejected by AC and had no other paths to take.
Or they are organized union busters, I guess we'll never know.

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Re: Swoop hiring foreign scabs

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Victory wrote: Thu Apr 12, 2018 8:32 am It kind of sounds like people that got rejected by AC and had no other paths to take.
Wow!

Presumably not everyone that makes such comments works for Air Canada, but such arrogant remarks cannot possibly help Air Canada's image, particularly when it could be argued that Air Canada's own low entry pay, compared to U.S carriers, pressures the industry in general. Point being, not everyone wants to or can afford to work at Air Canada, but for many it's a fine choice.

This is the nature of the free market, it's happened before, it will happen again. For instance Westjet at its birth started with substantially lower pay than Canadian and arguably made it difficult for them to compete, Jazz started B scale, Transat started B scale, Sunwing used to bring foreign pilots, Porter started below Jazz pay, Encore and Sky started below Porter and on and on it goes. It's the risk of starting a new operation and supply and demand. Just because one group has a union it cannot expect everyone else to follow their pay structure, but the market will eventually adjust as necessary.
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