MONTREAL – In an effort to safe stronger wages, Air Canada pilots are vowing to make Canadians proceed to fly Air Canada until they’re granted vital raises.
“With no breakthroughs rising after a yr of negotiations, now we have no selection however to not strike till we obtain the pay we deserve,” mentioned a union consultant. “Solely after our salaries are concurrent with trade requirements will we stop subjecting Canadians to our employer’s abhorrent service.”
As a result of the destiny of the negotiations stay unclear, pissed off travellers have been pressured to plan for each attainable contingency.
“If a deal isn’t reached quickly, I’ll must fly on that shitty previous airline to go to my shitty previous family in shitty previous Winnipeg,” mentioned one potential passenger. “I hope the pilots get what they deserve to allow them to spare me that nightmare.”
Air Canada, in the meantime, insists that its pilots are already paid a good charge for the grim work they carry out.
“Yearly, numerous Canadians pay us to be handled like cattle, if cattle had much less company,” the corporate mentioned in a press release. “Our pilots are given what is actually blood money for his or her complicity in our abuses, and asking for extra to assist calm the haunted goals of what they’ve inflicted on civilians is unconscionable.”
The federal authorities is strongly encouraging the 2 sides to achieve a deal, with the Workplace of the Prime Minister noting that Canadians are already struggling sufficient with out having to fret in regards to the hell that’s an upcoming Air Canada flight on their calendar.
“On the finish of the day, nobody actually likes flying, and completely nobody likes flying Air Canada,” a PMO consultant mentioned. “If each side can not attain a deal quickly, the federal government will contemplate imposing arbitration in order that nobody ever has to undergo by means of one in every of its flights once more.”
At press time, Air Canada responded to the strain it’s dealing with by threatening to double the variety of flights it delays for no obvious purpose till the pilots capitulate.
