Air Canada Strike

Harper Defends Air Canada Strike Intervention

CP | Sunny Freeman, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.09.2012 | Canada Politics

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TORONTO - The federal government needed to intervene in Air Canada's labour disputes because a shutdown at the country's largest airline at a peak tra...

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Minister Prevents Air Canada Work Stoppage

CP | Posted 03.08.2012 | Canada Business

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OTTAWA - Federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt stepped in Thursday to prevent a work stoppage at Air Canada next week that would have thrown the travel p...

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Air Canada Faces March Break Strike

CP | Sunny Freeman, The Canadian Press | Posted 06.06.2012 | Canada Business

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TORONTO - Air Canada's biggest union says it is threatening to strike just as the busy March Break travel season gets under way because its members ar...

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Air Canada Pilots Give Strike Mandate

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.15.2012 | Canada Politics

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MONTREAL - The union representing Air Canada pilots has been given an overwhelming mandate to call a strike, though the pilots have said they won't us...

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Air Canada Won't Win Damages From Union: Lawyer

CP | Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.14.2011 | Canada Politics

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MONTREAL - The union representing Air Canada flight attendants urged a labour board Friday to turn aside the federal government's request to remove it...

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Gunman Shows Up At Home Of Air Canada Executive

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.13.2011 | Canada

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OTTAWA - The labour dispute between Air Canada and its flight attendants has taken a menacing turn after a suspected gunman made a late-night appearan...

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Tories' Moves Against Labour 'Highly Unusual,' Experts Say

CBC | Posted 12.13.2011 | Canada Politics

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As Labour Minister Lisa Raitt continued her efforts to thwart any chance of a strike by Air Canada flight attendants, and postal workers ...

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Let Them Negotiate

Keith Beardsley | Posted 12.12.2011 | Canada Politics

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A war against unions will feed some red meat to the party base, but at what cost both short and long term to our economy and is it worth the risk at this stage of our economic recovery?

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Is Ottawa To Blame For Rejection Of Air Canada Deal?

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Mendleson | Posted 12.12.2011 | Canada Business

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UPDATE IV: CUPE has confirmed that flight attendants will not be going on strike tonight. According to the union, the Canadian Industrial Relations Bo...

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No Strike For You: Ottawa

CP | Posted 12.11.2011 | Canada

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MONTREAL - The federal government is moving to prevent a strike Thursday by Air Canada flight attendants by sending the matter to the Canada Industria...

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Air Canada Flight Attendants Set To Walk Off Job

CP | Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.10.2011 | Canada Politics

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MONTREAL - The federal government is moving to prevent a strike Thursday by Air Canada flight attendants by sending the matter to the Canada Industria...

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Carry On... Or Else: Feds

CP | Diana Mehta, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.09.2011 | Canada

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TORONTO - An escalating labour dispute at Air Canada is throwing the relationship between a union and its members into the spotlight after flight atte...

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Flight Attendants Reject Air Canada Deal

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 12.09.2011 | Canada

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MONTREAL - Air Canada (TSX: AC.A) is facing more labour turbulence as the airline's flight attendants rejected a second tentative deal and served stri...

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Strike Talks Break Down After Air Canada 'Insults' Union, Mediator: CUPE

CP | Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.19.2011 | Canada Business

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MONTREAL - Air Canada reached a tentative contract deal with flight attendants Tuesday, averting a strike that would have severely disrupted operation...

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Air Canada Strike Would Provoke Back-To-Work Bill, Says Labour Minister

CBC | Posted 11.19.2011 | Canada Politics

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The federal government has served notice it will introduce back-to-work legislation should there be a strike by Air Canada’s 6,800 flight attendants...

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Air Canada Strike Would Trigger Back-To-Work Bill: Labour Minister

CP | Craig Wong, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.19.2011 | Canada Politics

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OTTAWA - Federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt said Ottawa will order Air Canada flight attendants back to work if talks between the company and union fa...

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Air Canada Running Out Of Time To Avoid Strike

CP | Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.17.2011 | Canada

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MONTREAL - The union representing Air Canada's flight attendants presented a new contract proposal to management on Saturday, saying the airline's pos...

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Air Canada Flight Attendants Give Strike Notice

CP | Ross Marowits | Posted 11.16.2011 | Canada Business

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MONTREAL - Air Canada's flight attendants have given their strike notice and could be off the job as early as Wednesday. The notification was deliv...

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Air Canada Flight Attendants Vote Overwhelmingly To Strike

CP | Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.13.2011 | Canada Business

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MONTREAL - Air Canada could face its second work stoppage this year after flight attendants overwhelmingly endorsed a strike that could begin as early...

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On Labour Day Weekend, Head Of Canada's Largest Union Takes Stock

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Mendleson | Posted 11.03.2011 | Canada Business

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The post-recession world has not been kind to organized labour. With corporations and governments under pressure to cut costs and reduce deficits, uni...

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Air Canada Flight Attendants Reject Deal

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 10.27.2011 | Canada Business

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MONTREAL - Air Canada suffered yet another labour setback on Saturday with word its flight attendants have rejected a tentative agreement reached earl...

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New Air Canada Contract Ratified

The Canadian Press | Posted 08.27.2011 | Canada

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THE CANADIAN PRESS -- Air Canada's customer service and airport workers have voted 87.7 per cent in favour of a new collective agreement reached under...

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The Attack on Workers: Back(sliding) (in)to the Future

Erika Shaker | Posted 08.24.2011 | Canada

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Workers are universally loved (or at least they get some rhetorical "props") when they're downtrodden, but the moment they have the gall to look beyond their "place," they're met with a wave of righteous indignation: Who do they think they are, anyway?

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Seeding Socialism: The Conservative Attack on Unions and Young Workers

Edward Jackson | Posted 08.22.2011 | Canada

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We're seeing the beginning of a prolonged, multi-pronged attack on unionized workers by the Conservatives. Their anti-worker war machine is revving its engines. Sirens have sounded. The first missiles have been launched.

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Is Harper Picking A Fight With Canada's Labour Unions?

CP | Posted 08.22.2011 | Canada Business

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THE CANADIAN PRESS -- OTTAWA - The Conservative government is spoiling for a fight with Canada's labour movement, says the head of one of the largest ...

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