Federal labour board deems Air Canada flight attendants' strike 'unlawful'

Oh well. 🤷Air Canada can suck a bag of dicks given they expect free work for no pay.

Air Canada is NOT a crown Corp, what right does the government have to intervene in Union's lawful right to strike. This undermines worker protection in Canada and sets a horrible precedent.

Welcome to the control state friend. No wonder everyone thinks of Canada as the US’ little sibling.

What's unlawful is not paying your employees for the time they've worked.

What's unlawful is removing their right to go on strike and removing any kind of leverage for them to negotiate.

Nah, absolutely fuck the government. Keep striking. Cause pure chaos and unrest.

Air Canada is non essential. Rail, and postal service, health care teachers are. No other option is available. Customers have other options available in most cases and Air Canada has been struggling for a while with public perception and this is bad optics. My home town is only serviced by Air Canada but because they have contacted out the route to Jazz, I'm not affected. But I still have options for an airport an hour away though.

Rail, and postal service, health care teachers are [essential].
It's amazing how badly all those are being managed, right now. Mailposte wants to go private so they can end some bad contracts, rail is largely sold off to greedy corps, and teachers have gotten the shit end of the stick for decades.
For instance, my sister-in-law is retiring soon from teaching. She left the country to find a job that pays a living wage. Why yes, it IS a former Viking nation, and how did you know?
Jazz is AirCanada but their work force are not on the same union

It would be nice if the article explained why the tribunal declared the strike unlawful. What was the rationale?

Companies in Canada have learned that they can just wait until the union strikes and then run to the government to force them back to work on the companies terms, and the unions will get on their knees and start sucking. Why would companies negotiate anything if all you have to do is get the government to force them back to work.
They hurt the economy’s feewings 😔. But in all seriousness they deemed the strike to have too large of an impact on Canadians and the Canadian economy, making them and go back to work. But since the original order was defied now the strike is illegal.
- Thanks - if that was the rationale, then AC should be (re-)nationalized. No private company should be allowed to become so essential to the functioning of our country.
- The fuck are they going to do? Arrest all the striking workers? That will sure get them back to work faster.

It's unlawful until the Supreme Court strikes down that section of the law because it's obviously unconstitutional because it takes away their Section 2 right to collective bargaining.

And yet they persisted.

All the comments make it seem like this is a new thing to all of you? There’s been many strikes where in identical situations workers have been sent back and both sides are forced into binding arbitration. Generally the government, whether it be federal or provincial, wait a lot longer to do that order, but let’s be realistic this is grossly disruptive beyond Air Canada so there is some rationale. To be clear, I’m not saying I’m for it, but this isn’t new. It is worth noting that when this does occur the arbitrators tend to lean more towards those who were forced back.

The use of Section 107 like a magic wand to make strikes disappear is a novel move by government from the last couple years. Previously it's been back-to-work legislation to end strikes, taking longer and requiring public support from the peoples' representatives in Legislature.
This magic wand has been more or less successful the first few times to get strikes out of the news, but this is the first time a union has refused to follow along with this.
Importantly, the pacing and the documented pattern of employers stonewalling discussion while begging government for arbitration, has put a clear case for unions to challenge this erosion of a constitutional right affirmed by Canada's Supreme Court and regional trial courts. (sidenote: our courts aren't bought out by regressives)
I'd be interested in seeing some of those cases that
a) Aren't using this loophole the libs decided to make that has yet to be fought in a court of law (ie did not require the passing of legislation to force them back)
b) Aren't for a service deemed 'critical' like teachers, nurses, etc. (ie ones that dont have an ESA)
- The Canadian and Provincial governments have done this over 25 times in the last 30 years. Yes, many are “essential” workers like health care, but it’s also included port workers, rail workers, transit workers, elementary through post-secondary teachers, construction workers, ferry operators, etc…
  You may not consider Air Canada to be essential and the government should mind it’s own business, AC is the only passenger service for many people in small communities who use it for accessing a variety of essential services that are not available in their community. The flight attendants should be paid more, should be paid for hours at work and while they are at whether they are flying or not, but it’s also not a pure black and white scenario that people love to paint it as.