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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(127,993 posts) Sat Aug 16, 2025, 12:57 PM Aug 16

Union says 'nothing scheduled' with Air Canada as strike by flight attendants halts operations

The union representing Air Canada flight attendants says no talks are scheduled with the airline as a strike that began early Saturday led to the airline suspending operations.

The union and airline met late Friday night before 10,000 flight attendants walked off the job at 12:58 a.m. ET, Wesley Lesosky, president of the Air Canada component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), told a morning news conference.

Lesosky said their last meeting was Friday night, but Air Canada offered "nothing of substance" to bring back to members.

Asked when Canadians could expect to be back on flights, Lesosky said it's up to Air Canada, but that public pressure on the airline will make a "huge difference" in reaching a settlement.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/union-says-nothing-scheduled-air-153521739.html

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And the Canadians are smart enough not to take the US flight option! RockCreek Aug 16 #1

RockCreek

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1. And the Canadians are smart enough not to take the US flight option!

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Sat Aug 16, 2025, 01:09 PM

Aug 16

From the article:
' "It was an end of my maternity leave kind of trip. We went to the Faroe Islands and Norway, travelling through Air Canada to London," Pringnitz said from London's Heathrow Airport.

She noted there was an option for travellers to go the U.S. but she and others were told there wouldn't be any further assistance once they landed in the U.S.

"It didn't go over well with the line. Nobody really seemed interested, everybody seemed a little bit amused almost at the suggestion, or exasperated, because it is a bit ridiculous to offer to take stranded passengers to a different country to strand them there." '

Who would want to take a chance of ending up stranded in ICE custody? Even if it were to a city near the individual Canadian's final destination.

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