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Flight attendants at Canada's second largest airline on strike after 99% vote in favor, tired of being forced to do almost a full week's worth of work unpaid each month (www.msn.com)
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[–] 42 points 3 months ago (5 children)

A labour friendly government would outlaw the practice so unions wouldn't have to waste money and effort fighting this obviously unacceptable bullshit. Wish we had one!

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    It's ridiculous that the government didn't get to work on fixing this last year after Air Canada's flight attendants went on strike over the same thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    Wait, why didn't they strike simultaneously?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    If they did, the government would step in and decide for all parties what the terms of the contracts will be.

    A lot of bad things would happen if there were zero airlines in operation. Just as collusion between companies is bad, collusion between unions is bad. There's a difference between taking action that negatively impacts a company and taking action that negatively impacts a whole country. So the government would need to be directly involved.

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