MACHINISTS UNION CALLS OUT AIR CANADA OVER “ABANDONMENT OF WORKERS”

“Air Canada needs to come to the table and maintain its employees on the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy
(CEWS) program.” This is the message from General Vice President Stan Pickthall, of Air Canada’s largest Union.
Pickthall added: “It is beyond an embarrassment for Air Canada to layoff more than half of its employees at a time when those employees need the Company the most. This is shameful behaviour from a corporation that owes its very existence to the hard work and dedication of employees from the ramp to the maintenance bays to the cabins and cockpit. We are asking them to continue the CEWS program – which is being subsidized by Federal funding, so the airline doesn’t even have to pay for it.” Read Letter here…