{"id":6434,"date":"2018-04-20T14:40:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T18:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=662fc8a9bbf72538127b81bb4ed4fff9"},"modified":"2018-04-20T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T18:40:56","slug":"westjet-pilots-get-2-million-from-union-to-help-efforts-to-get-first-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/20\/westjet-pilots-get-2-million-from-union-to-help-efforts-to-get-first-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"WestJet pilots get $2 million from union to help efforts to get first contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8212; WestJet pilots are marking their first year since choosing to unionize by receiving $2 million from the international union&#8217;s contingency fund to help with efforts to achieve a first collective agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Rob McFadyen, chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association master executive council, says the money will help secure a contract that reflects the contribution of pilots to the airline&#8217;s success and record profits.<\/p>\n<p>The Calgary-based airline and its pilots have been in contract negotiations since September. A 60-day conciliation process ends April 27.<\/p>\n<p>The pilots could launch a strike following a 21-day cooling off period.<\/p>\n<p>If the money is still required at that time<b>,<\/b> McFadyen says it will be used for a public campaign and other lawful preparations in Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The grant announcement comes weeks after the Canada Industrial Relations Board issued an interim order for the airline to stop recruiting pilots through two-year leaves of absence to fly for its new ultra-low cost carrier Swoop.<\/p>\n<p>ALPA said WestJet has tried to bypass the union by negotiating directly with pilots to fly for Swoop under different working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Companies in this story: (TSX:WJA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &mdash; WestJet pilots are marking their first year since choosing to unionize by receiving $2 million from the international union&rsquo;s contingency fund to help with efforts to achieve a first collective agreement. Capt. Rob McFadyen, chairman of the Air Line Pilots Association master executive council, says the money will help secure a contract that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6437,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions\/6437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}