I would like to thank WJ for raising my expectations for this contract.

"contracts need to reflect national labour laws, cost of living..."

With a cost index of 105 (US = 100) and purchasing power of 65 (US =100)Canada is a costlier country to live in.

My bar has been adjusted.

I’m curious if truckers, who make a fraction of a WJ captain, walked out on masse instead of protesting, shutting down the country, would this group support them? What about railway employees, same thing? Just curious. Well, since you are speaking out of your ass again, we are not talking about eve...

The public doesn't understand the industry enough to making public statements beneficial. The general population has a tendency to love a good airline bashing story and can't seem to wrap their heads around the fact that the majority of our system failures in this country are a result of the regulat...

Don’t worry pilots your time is coming to an end … Why do you feel that 200k per year is being underpaid ? What value have you added to the economy, country and to people’s lives to earn a wage increase ? The pandemic was very positive to show that aviation is not needed. Want to see your relatives...

For the guys/gals who were there for the last vote, curious if gut feelings are different then the previous situation/vote? First time around there was a sense of uncertainty because it was all new. The company did a good job of creating fear. This time around, everyone is certain and prepared. I'd...

Fair point but opens the door to another question/problem. Even with a compensation model that incorporates comparators from other n.a carriers, westjet can’t find domestic talent in the executive pool either. Most of our recent executives most likely required a Canadian geography lesson before thei...

Google WestJet circular 2019. This would be our last annual circular prior to going private. There is an entire section dedicated to executive compensation. Find page 46. There are 20 comparators listed. 40% of them are American. So. Tell me why it is ok to use American salaries as a comparator when...

Which inefficiencies? The ones caused by running 4 different airlines under one umbrella? That's 4 different office staff, 4 different benefits programs, 4 different compensation models, 4 different dispatch and operations departments, 4 different sets of executives and managers all reporting to th...

5 Days late on your car payment, the next door neighbour offers the bank 4 times as much to take over the lease, even though he doesn't need the car is more like it. Are you going to celebrate it when you realize those planes are getting painted Pink and doing your flying at less than half the pay ...

LOL, it must be a pretty balanced message if the messenger is thought to be senior, junior, outsider, and a manager all at the same time! At any rate, senior or junior, it's not the messenger, rather the message that counts. And the message is this: diplomacy is needed to build consensus, coming fr...

I couldn't make my car payment for a few months! It's the guy down the streets fault!

I love the "the senior guys aren't part of the negotiations" and "the senior guys are left out". Every time I hear that I ask "did you raise your hand to join the committee?" I am still waiting to get a "yes, I volunteered" to that question. The old guard was in power for many years. A lot of people...

Wonder how the pilot open houses are going this week? Hope the conference center asked for payment upfront.

I am not aware of a single WJ executive who has actually ever “retired” after leaving this place. Every member of this ELT is young and will obviously carryon in their professional lives after leaving this place. Some things that don’t look good on an executive resume include; ! Reduced overall syst...

Hours are not the only requirement listed on the job posting. This goes for WJ and every other airline. Checking off all the hour and license requirements doesn’t guarantee a job offer. An interview invite simply means you did check off all those boxes and now a company wants to learn more about you...

Now when you say bar room, do you mean the burn barrell with your hobo friends? Maybe instead of letting people who butt hurt you live in your spacious head rent free, you should make some pocket change leasing it out. God knows you probably need the cash. Can you show us on this doll where the bad...

I do believe Onex is actively evaluating their holdings. All investors should. That being said, if they decide to close this shop down, it will be because of the horrible mismanagement and lack of direction over the last few years and NOT because of any employee group. ES was perfectly happy carryin...

Well you better not burn anything because firefighters are apparently now redundant. I read it here. Apparently so are paramedics. Nothing like a disgruntled employee to turn me off a company. I flew 8 family of four trips on WJ in 2022 each one worse than the last. 3 in 2021 and 2 in 2020. I chose...

Yikes. Don't most airlines have contracts where you can't say openly negative stuff about your employer? This seems quite... provocative... Probably the point. But I'm wondering if they didn't go a bit too far here if the people in the video are real westjet employees... I don’t think they actually...

I know it sucks that the company is asking for a ‘take one for the team’ approach, I’ve been there before at WS, but I don’t think the current exec has much choice with Onex having significant input and likely concern over viability of their investment in WS overall. I think there have been both go...

And let’s not forget the words of arbitrator WK - “I am of the view that Air Canada is the appropriate comparator”. He went on to list a few caveats mentioning AC is more established, has had more CA’s… But the meat of that statement is important to remember.

The above post is correct - WJ is not AC. However, the bigger issue is that WJ is not… anything? If WJ fails, it will be due to a lack of product identify - not paying employees a fair wage. If you were to ask an executive (pick one, any one because I can’t keep track of who’s actually here anymore)...

Is that you GGG?

(Referencing the just leave remark)

With a prolonged labour dispute, there is always the possibility that Onex will just cut it’s losses (especially with the accumulated Covid debt) and file for bankruptcy for WS, as there probably won’t be many interested buyers as the WS debt approaches it’s asset value (if it isn’t already there i...

The courts have ruled time and time again that back to work legislation is not constitutional. Everyone just keeps caving when they are told to get back to work. We all need to learn how to stand our ground like the education workers in Ontario. I don't really care about a Federal Cabinet Minister t...