And the last 15 years?Lt. Daniel Kaffee wrote: ↑Tue Aug 16, 2022 6:58 pmYou wonder why senior pilots don't think much of junior pilots....statements like that show so much ignorance and naiveté.understand why so many Jr pilots feel like the Sr pilots didn't do much to protect this job.
1995-1998 huge hiring boom...ends with strike of 1998.
199?-1998 Air Canada regional airline pilots take ACPA pilots to CLRB/CIRB to try and force a seniority merger
1999 Federal govt conspires with AA and Gerry Schwartz to takeover Air Canada
1999 Air Canada forced to buy CAI
2000 tech sector meltdown - huge downturn of business traffic
2000 merger of AC and CAI...CRA pilots merged with fake dates of hire, CAI pilots get free upgrade (non-negotiated) to ACPA wage and working conditions
2001 - 9-11 almost zero support from Canadian federal government
2001 Mitchnick award in merger of ACPA and ALPA-C
2003 - Air Canada CCAA pilots chose to take pay cuts to protect junior pilot jobs...other AC unions sell out their junior members
Keller award award in merger of ACPA and ALPA-C
2004 Air Canada emerges from CCAA
2006 arbitrator removes pension indexing from ACPA
2008/09 Financial meltdown...Air Canada barely avoids CCAA a second time that decade - CA frozen
2012 Federal gov't under Harper takes a tough stance against Labour....screws Canada Post...prevents pilots from striking under the Protection of Air Services Act
FOS is forced on ACPA by Harper govt.
But you're right...senior pilots no nothing about tough times and protecting junior pilots
I get we, the average Joe pilot voted against TA1. That still doesn’t excuse what happened. ACPA negotiated it. It never would have been rammed down our throat had ACPA not negotiated it.
ACPA owns.
The loss of DB Pension. Doubling flat pay to four years. FO and RP pay cuts. Rouge.
All of this was freely negotiated by ACPA. Give a thought to how these changes alone are currently impacting the next generation.