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Air Canada Wins CUPE Grievance re B2 Passes For Pilots

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Word is, AC wins, CUPE loses, grievance re alleged promise to guarantee equal pass priority of AC F/As. Arbitrator upholds discretion of Air Canada to issue B2 passes to AC pilots without requiring same for F/As.

Also, arbitrator cites AC submission that prior agreement giving J-Class priority to F/Os over F/As was "a mistake", but upholds giving B2 priority passes for pilots for signing 10 yr contract.

Apparently, pass allocation at discretion of employer and not subject to contract negotiation is upheld.

Does anyone have a copy of this arbitration award?
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Wait until they hear Pilots get 3 B1 passes/year..... :twisted:
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FAs gladly took higher priority passes when offered by the employer. xmas, nye, performance based, etc. plus 3*C1/J10 on their own agreement.

Kudos to CUPE for trying to get something for their membership, something ACPA sorely lacks on. But if you
were to open the dictionary page to "entitled" you are going to see a picture of them. They think anything someone else at this airline gets they should get too.

SDs recently felt, and I believe grieved and lost that they should be paid same as FOs on the type they are working on.

"Institutional sexism" they call our pay, benefits, and anything generally better that they see us as having...

I am amused that their claims are based on, verbatim, "me too" deals, given that statements significance in media today.

But the fact is, other than these B1s, a higher hourly pay rate, and flight and duty time protections we don't have much better in our contract than the FAs.

FAs enjoy better per diems, better crew rest rules, better trip/duty pay guarantees, better OT rules, they can bid any flying in the airline and most finish a flying month in 10 days or less... not to mention the 40-50 years of seniority they can accrue when they get hired at 18 years old. Not a bad career or deal for a position that requires no experience, no education, no skills to get hired into.
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What are b1/ b2 passes?
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Think this is what you were looking for.


https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/cala/doc/2 ... 30949.html
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altiplano wrote: Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:46 am FAs gladly took higher priority passes when offered by the employer. xmas, nye, performance based, etc. plus 3*C1/J10 on their own agreement.

Kudos to CUPE for trying to get something for their membership, something ACPA sorely lacks on. But if you
were to open the dictionary page to "entitled" you are going to see a picture of them. They think anything someone else at this airline gets they should get too.

SDs recently felt, and I believe grieved and lost that they should be paid same as FOs on the type they are working on.

"Institutional sexism" they call our pay, benefits, and anything generally better that they see us as having...

I am amused that their claims are based on, verbatim, "me too" deals, given that statements significance in media today.

But the fact is, other than these B1s, a higher hourly pay rate, and flight and duty time protections we don't have much better in our contract than the FAs.

FAs enjoy better per diems, better crew rest rules, better trip/duty pay guarantees, better OT rules, they can bid any flying in the airline and most finish a flying month in 10 days or less... not to mention the 40-50 years of seniority they can accrue when they get hired at 18 years old. Not a bad career or deal for a position that requires no experience, no education, no skills to get hired into.
Plus they get duty day minus four! I'd love to "me too" that for the pilots.
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altiplano wrote: Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:46 am FAs gladly took higher priority passes when offered by the employer. xmas, nye, performance based, etc. plus 3*C1/J10 on their own agreement.

Kudos to CUPE for trying to get something for their membership, something ACPA sorely lacks on.
Am I the only one not following your train of thought?

ACPA secures for its members a higher priority for both deadhead and vacation pass travel.

CUPE initiates a grievance to try and get the same for its members.

Altiplano says, "Kudos to CUPE for trying to get something for their membership, something ACPA sorely lacks on."

Sooooo... Why is CUPE grieving this? Because... ACPA got something for their membership, right?
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Observer wrote: Thu Apr 19, 2018 4:13 pm
altiplano wrote: Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:46 am FAs gladly took higher priority passes when offered by the employer. xmas, nye, performance based, etc. plus 3*C1/J10 on their own agreement.

Kudos to CUPE for trying to get something for their membership, something ACPA sorely lacks on.
Am I the only one not following your train of thought?

ACPA secures for its members a higher priority for both deadhead and vacation pass travel.

CUPE initiates a grievance to try and get the same for its members.

Altiplano says, "Kudos to CUPE for trying to get something for their membership, something ACPA sorely lacks on."

Sooooo... Why is CUPE grieving this? Because... ACPA got something for their membership, right?
ACPA is loath to follow through on grievances or court challenges.

They most recently abandoned the challenge to the 2011 Protecting Air Services Act which we would have won. Or if in the remote case we lost we would have at least fought the good fight, and TRIED to overturn what amounted to an enormous loss to our group.

We were gifted the B passes because we ratified a 10 year deal which allowed Air Canada to secure a new debt arrangement which has saved them 10's or 100's of millions of dollars, and allowed them to pursue a business plan that required us on board to happen. Not to mention hurt the above mentioned challenge. Not to mention it's unprecedented, a 10 year sub-COL contract.

We paid for J for FOs. It wasn't just the corporation giving us something for nothing, not to mention it is industry standard that pilots ride first/business when travelling on company business.
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CUPE are a bunch of Communist nut cases that believe being a FA at Air Canada should be equal to the Pilots. Factor in our Socialist Country and a Socialist Company and unfortunately they have become addicted to some success.

Turning an unskilled labour job, into a career.
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They want Seniority to be recognized without recognizing the post secondary education, flight training and experience it takes to become an AC pilot that at times is extremely competitive...
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Please don't lose sight of the fact that it is only 3 B1's for the pilots. It is not unlimited like many think. Last year, I only used two and both times I sat in economy. Add in the games that gate agents play with CON (and POS) travel and it's really not that important to me.
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But perception is reality. Try coming back from Barbados, with 25-plus years of seniority, seeing your family seconded to a recent hire and his or her young family, and having to spend another two or three days waiting for an opening. The optics are not pretty. There is a view that management should want to encourage factors that unite the employees as a group, rather than classifying employee groups according to a separate scale of values.
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Sinister wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:30 pm But perception is reality. Try coming back from Barbados, with 25-plus years of seniority, seeing your family seconded to a recent hire and his or her young family, and having to spend another two or three days waiting for an opening. The optics are not pretty. There is a view that management should want to encourage factors that unite the employees as a group, rather than classifying employee groups according to a separate scale of values.
Or how about being left behind and a flight attendant boyfriend gets ahead of you. Has happened to me, Captain at the airline but a boyfriend has a higher priority as a nominated travel partner.

Hospitals/law firms many have great unity, but there is a clear line between employee groups.
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Sinister wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:30 pm But perception is reality. Try coming back from Barbados, with 25-plus years of seniority, seeing your family seconded to a recent hire and his or her young family, and having to spend another two or three days waiting for an opening. The optics are not pretty. There is a view that management should want to encourage factors that unite the employees as a group, rather than classifying employee groups according to a separate scale of values.
That's nice you got to extend your vacation.

Optics look about right. Pilots invest years of service and tens of thousands of dollars to reach the highly competitive level of joining AC. We can't show up at 18 years old start acruing 50 years of seniority as some of the unskilled groups do.

Not to mention other groups happily take higher priority passes regularly... FA's with 3 C1s plus bonus C1s for working holidays... imagine being a 25 year Engineer or Dispatcher and getting bumped by a 19 year old new hire FA and her boyfriend?

I don't hear anyone complaining about that.

If you don't like A/B/C priority, maybe we should do it based on age.

Maybe we should also all pay the same for our passes... FAs aren't complaining about the fact that all of their passes are service charge exempted.
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Sinister wrote: Thu Apr 26, 2018 11:30 pm But perception is reality. Try coming back from Barbados, with 25-plus years of seniority, seeing your family seconded to a recent hire and his or her young family, and having to spend another two or three days waiting for an opening. The optics are not pretty. There is a view that management should want to encourage factors that unite the employees as a group, rather than classifying employee groups according to a separate scale of values.
If th loads are that tight maybe you should have just bought a ticket...you get what you pay for. This is a business
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Loads can change in the blink of an eye for many reasons. Mechanical plane on another flight, down-gauging, misconnects, etcccc
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Wow that's a lot of pushing from flight attendants to be equal! Are they still allowed in the flight deck jumpseat when travelling on passes when cabin is full? That is quite an expeditious way to lose jumpseat privileges if they still have it.
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My post was simply about how we define equality. The employer has dictated, through this process, that when it comes to employment benefits, some are "more" equal than others. This is not about the jobs that we do or the value of our individual contribution to the airline's success. Rather, it is about sharing, equally, the fruits of our collective labour. And by deeming that one group of contributors should have greater privileges than another, apparently on the basis of signing a long-term contract, our collective benefits should be compromised? Don't think so. Not a good decision.

In a tug-of-war, in a competitive airline environment, we should all be on the same team. We should all carry our own weight and we should all be treated as having equally contributed, regardless of our job classifications.
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I don't know how much more I can take of this socialist bs country.
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Sinister wrote: Fri Apr 27, 2018 9:21 pm My post was simply about how we define equality. The employer has dictated, through this process, that when it comes to employment benefits, some are "more" equal than others. This is not about the jobs that we do or the value of our individual contribution to the airline's success. Rather, it is about sharing, equally, the fruits of our collective labour. And by deeming that one group of contributors should have greater privileges than another, apparently on the basis of signing a long-term contract, our collective benefits should be compromised? Don't think so. Not a good decision.

In a tug-of-war, in a competitive airline environment, we should all be on the same team. We should all carry our own weight and we should all be treated as having equally contributed, regardless of our job classifications.
You lost the greivance on this, just like you lost the push for Service Directors getting equal pay to FOs.

All positions aren't equal.

Neither should the compensation and benefits be.

We don't all bring the same skills and abilities to the airline. We work for the same company, the same team, but we don't all equally contribute.

You want pilot benefits? Then you should have put in the decade plus of training, sacrifice, and dedication it takes to become a pilot at a major airline.
You want management benefits? Should have got an MBA and taken the risks, worked your way up, done what it takes to earn that position.

You don't answer to the hypocrisy of FAs taking better staff travel benefits themselves, yet criticising the Pilots. Why don't you talk to your union about giving that back if you want equality?

Or take it the CBC, or the Human Rights Tribunal just like all the other people with complaints about Airlines and Pilots...

Or better yet go get another job if you feel so wronged...
I seriously doubt you'll do better though. AC FAs are better compensated and have better work rules than most/all other Canadian or even Legacy airlines... You should ask what that 35 year United FA pulls in next time you're in the lobby together at check in... ask her if she thinks that she ought to be compensated equally to pilots, or get the same benefits...

Meanwhile the pilots at AC are far far behind most of the same comparators...
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