Upcoming Air Canada Flight Attendant Strike

[ellbell]

Umm...I was just telling folks flying this week to keep an eye out…

Sorry I quoted the wrong post

 

[ellbell]

'Unskilled labor' classist nonsense that is.

Flight attendants go through weeks to months of training, need to be certified for aircraft type (just like pilots), have to be able to regularly show they can evacuate a plane in under 90s using only half of the exits, all while being the most in view face of an airline.

Right!!! Not to mention the abuse they take from passengers. WHILE NOT BEING PAID most of the time because the plane hasn't started moving.

 

[EACarlson]

The average hourly wage is 28.64. But they don't get paid for all the hours they work. Flight attendants that have been there less than 10 years make well below the average. So yea some of them are actually making less than minimum wage

This is blatantly false. The starting pay as of 4/1/24, the last step date listed in the previous contract was $30.02. At five years of service the hourly wage is $52.50 per hour. At ten years, it's $63.07. How can an average of all employees be less than the starting wage.

'Unskilled labor' classist nonsense that is.

Flight attendants go through weeks to months of training, need to be certified for aircraft type (just like pilots), have to be able to regularly show they can evacuate a plane in under 90s using only half of the exits, all while being the most in view face of an airline.

It is a relatively unskilled job. It's seven weeks of training or 280 hours to become an FA for AC. To get a Transport Canada Airline Pilot license, an applicant must have 1500 hours of flight time after completing the requirements to get a pilots license in the first place. I think most able bodied people would be able to handle the demands of being an FA, I know very few people that could handle the demands of being a Commercial Airline Pilot.
Most of them absolutely work hard and deserve a fair wage. I don't believe that they deserve what they're demanding. I think you would also see all of the long haul international crews, which right now are the most senior, become the least experienced. And a YYZ-YUL hop become the most senior. If I were getting paid $200 for a 80 minute flight I'd be all over that.
I heard a great suggestion the union could make if they really cared about just the pay rate. Give back some of their other benefits. Take away flight benefits, defined pension plans, company matched stock purchase plan and I bet they can get the hourly wage number to what the union wants without raising total compensation costs to the point that they can no longer be a competitive airline.

 

[ellbell]

This is blatantly false. The starting pay as of 4/1/24, the last step date listed in the previous contract was $30.02. At five years of service the hourly wage is $52.50 per hour. At ten years, it's $63.07. How can an average of all employees be less than the starting wage.

Personally knowing AC flights attendants myself who work more the 35 hours a month unpaid and make less than 32000 a year I think you need to do more research.

 

[scrappinginontario]

OP here. My questions have been answered. Please feel free to close the thread to avoid debate. Thanks.