2d ago

88% of Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants, new poll confirms

New polling conducted by Abacus Data confirms that nearly 9 in 10 Canadians support Air Canada flight attendants’ fight for fair pay – and they want the federal government to back off and let them negotiate it freely and fairly.

88% per cent of Canadians believe flight attendants should be paid for all work-related duties including boarding, delays, and safety checks.
59% believe the federal government should respect flight attendants’ right to take job action – even if it causes travel disruptions.
76% support raising their pay to reflect the important safety role they play.
71% support Air Canada matching or exceeding competitor airline pay as Canada’s flagship carrier
80% support raising flight attendant pay to meet the rising cost-of-living.
59% think Air Canada’s wage increase for junior flight attendants is still too low to live on in major cities, and only 19% think Air Canada’s wage offer is fair.

The survey also confirms the public is tuning in, with 43% saying they are following the process closely.

The survey of 1500 across Canada was conducted on August 14-15 with a weighted sample. Read more here.

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Damn right we do. Fuck the government. They've been doing this unabashedly for decades. Others forced back should walk out in solidarity. As should everyone else.
End this bullshit.
General Strike should be attainable, is certainly justified and sends a unified message to Ottawa that we do not want what they have south of the border.
Fuck liberal fascists.
The CLB just ruled it illegal - to the workers: Strike to win!!! No free work for zero pay. Fuck Air Canada. Fuck the shitlibs Fuck the erosion of workers rights.
This strike made my family have to cancel their trip, so I won't be seeing them this week. I still support the flight attendants striking. No way I'd want to be working in those conditions, and forcing people to go back to work isn't the answer.
- I thought similar during the postal strikes, yes an inconvenience but the workers deserve better. I haven't read up much on the actual demands but I can only assume if they're striking (and rejecting the back to work) that something needs to be done. Plain random workers make the world work, they have the power really.
Whodathunk a banker and WEF stooge would be on the side of the ruling class, huh.
The government shouldn't be involved in union busting. AC has no reason to bargain in good faith if the government continues to throw workers under the (air)bus
- Absolutely.
  Chalk up another one under disappointments from the Carney government.
How many times has this government forced strikers back to work? Like 4 times now?
- For those who haven't come across it, read this post. Its absolute BS the way the Libs have twisted this section of the code to suit the interests of big businesses, and the reason we have seen this happen so much in the last few years, but not previously.
  https://lemmy.ca/post/49942361
- 4 times in the past year. Rail workers, dock workers, postal workers, and now flight attendants.
- Yeah but this time the shitlibs ordered the employees of a private company back to work. Air Canada is American owned btw. So glad the workers stayed on strike. Fuck the shitlibs. Workers Rights 💯no work for no pay.
  
  Air Canada is American owned btw
  Uh, source? I'm fairly confident it is not. And in fact is required by law to be 75% Canadian owned
- The Liberals, and neoliberals generally, are anti-labour and will support the very few ultra wealthy over the millions of us every single time.
- Under Carney? Or just the Liberals since 2015?
  
  Either/both. Seems to be a pattern.
Who are the other 12%??? Sociopaths???
- Who are the other 12%??? Sociopaths???
  Business owners.
  So... maybe
  
  Capitalists.. Sociopaths..
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- Could be the Albertans.
  
  Nope, this is one of the many situations where dumb Albertans will correctly identify that the Liberal government are pro-business jackasses.
  They just go on to say that this is why you should have voted Conservative, because, well. Dumb Albertans.
Who the hell are the 12% who DONT think people should be paid during work?! We need to find that group and expel them immediately because that’s just fucked!
- The liberals, apparently.
  
  Not the answer I expected, but realized is the answer.
- At least some of them may be waiting for a flight!
- I don't think it's necessarily important that they get paid directly for all hours, as long as they think that their compensation is fair. If they got $1000/hour flight time and nothing for pre and post flight, I'm sure they'd all be happy. They might even be fine with a fixed yearly salary tied to a certain number of flight hours.
  However, they're clearly not happy with the current arrangement. My understanding is that their pre and post flight duties have increased over the years, and their hourly wage for flight time hasn't kept up. An hourly wage per hour worked is probably the easiest way to handle this, and I'm not really sure why they haven't done so.
  
  I disagree. Because this can lead to abuses. A fair wage is getting paid for every minute of work that you perform, from the moment you set foot in your place of work, from the moment you step out. And that means an airport.
  Heck I'd even add that people should be compensated for the commute to work.
Are these the inklings of class consiousness or just a happy coincidence?
- I'm too cynical to believe this, but I would love to be wrong.
- Actually being paid for work you're doing is a pretty easy thing to get behind even for right wingers. It's the easiest of labour issues. So to answer your question, it's not so much a coincidence as it is lowest of low hanging fruit.

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