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Why Canadian airline strikes shut down the whole system — and how other countries avoid it
Over the August long weekend, roughly 250,000 WestJet passengers had their flights cancelled when the airline’s flight attendants walked out over pay, including compensation for ground duties performed before takeoff and after landing.
Less than a year earlier, an Air Canada strike grounded the country’s largest carrier for about 60 hours. The two disputes were different in their details, but both exposed how quickly a strike at a major airline can disrupt the wider air-travel system.
I’ve spent years studying how airlines and their unions collide, and in Canada the pattern is becoming familiar. Once an airline strike begins, there is little institutional middle ground between widespread disruption and government intervention. Other countries show this is not the only way to manage a strike.
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CLC urges Ottawa to repeal – not ‘codify’ – power to end legal strikes
'The government is asking the wrong question,' says president Bea Bruske amid Canada Labour Code amid consultations
The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is warning federally regulated employers that a second round of Canada Labour Code consultations could entrench, rather than eliminate, the labour minister's power to end lawful strikes.
The CLC's second submission to the Code review renews its call to repeal section 107, the provision allowing the labour minister to order employees back to work or refer disputes to binding arbitration.
The particular section reads: “The Minister, where the Minister deems it expedient, may do such things as to the Minister seem likely to maintain or secure industrial peace and to promote conditions favourable to the settlement of industrial disputes or differences and to those ends the Minister may refer any question to the Board or direct the Board to do such things as the Minister deems necessary.”
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