The Air Canada strike situation is an unmitigated disgrace.
First of all, getting no pay for mandatory work while the plane is on the ground is **fucking insane,** and it apparently being industry standard practice (which I had no idea of before today) makes it *so much worse.* Unions explicitly agreeing to it in the past doesn't make that any less true; I dearly hope those unions had **damn** good reasons at the time, because any union worth its salt would know that this is **textbook wage theft,** and sends the message that this type of labour is not valuable. A message that is, of course, a lie, because if it wasn't valuable it wouldn't be mandatory!
The other prong of this hellscape is that forcing people back to work should *never* be allowed, in any industry, in any context. Causing economic damage is *precisely* the purpose of strikes; that's what motivates the company to give the workers what they want. If the company is so big and central to the economy that a strike will significantly damage the entire economy, then that's not a reason to force people back to work; it's a reason to break up the company!
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I hope part of the negotiations for going back to work for the workers involve every member of the board stepping down without any severance, effective immediately. We need to enforce the idea with these boards thinking they can rely on big daddy government to force workers to go back on day one and therefore they don’t have to even try to negotiate in good faith.
