The Conservative government wants to table back-to-work legislation in the event that Air Canada flight attendants strike.
WRONG.
Unlike the monopolies we have in Canada (the mail springs to mind, since we just had a strike), there are dozens of airlines that people can fly. If you bought your ticket through a travel agent or on your Visa, your flight is insured, which means you can cross the airport to another counter and buy a ticket with an airline that doesn’t have uppity flight attendants. The capitalist system works, which means if Air Canada’s unions want to crush it into oblivion, someone else will pick up the slack.
Then we have the union-humping NDP:
NDP MP Yvon Godin denounced the government move but said it was too early to say whether his party would launch a parliamentary filibuster like the one that delayed passage of legislation to end a Canada Post lockout in June.
“They’re taking rights away from the working people. Where is that right of free bargaining?” Godin said.
WRONG again!
If these aging beauty queens and rampant homosexuals don’t like the deal they have with Air Canada, they have the right to go work somewhere else. Again, that’s a product of the capitalist free market. If they are so maltreated by Air Canada, they can always serve coffee at Starbucks. They’re free to do that. Somehow I think that if they were reminded of that right, they might just skip the strike altogether.
Here’s a tip for all involved: Fly Porter. Better looking stew’s, better service, and way cheaper. Enjoy!
It does seem strange that the Conservatives are rushing back to work legislation through. I feel like we’re missing something here. Could it be that they’re concerned that Air Canada could go bankrupt and that they think they’d be under political pressure to bail them out? Not saying I agree with that at all (I say let them go bankrupt) but there must be a political calculation in there somewhere.
Right move by the government, nothing really to rant about. The union blinked.