Air Canada: Carney Badly Fumbles The Ball On Flight Attendants' Strike.

Carney just lost the status of honest broker in negotiations between Air Canada and CUPE, the bargaining unit for flight attendants. Note that binding arbitration was the company's position, and so by siding with it, the federal government has demonstrated clear bias related to these contract negotiations.

Hajdu has ordered an end to the strike and for flight attendants to return to work. She has directed the CIRB to intervene to reach an agreement, and failing that, impose binding arbitration on the parties.  It's astonishing that, at the minister's press conference, no announcement was made about modifying the Canada Labour Code or providing the CIRB with terms of reference regarding this dispute. The Liberals blew it badly. Only Air Canada management is against all of its workers earning a living wage so that some of them can stop sleeping in their cars. What about cutting management's salaries across the board and using that money to fund better wages for flight attendants and others who are at the bottom of the pay scale? I can't believe Carney is this tone-deaf...

Meanwhile, the Conservatives previously introduced Bill C-409 to ban this practice, and the NDP pledged to reintroduce their former Bill in the next session of Parliament.