Canadian Flight Attendants Phone ‘Mayday’ Following New Journey Constraints

FA Union Claims Thousands Of Positions Have Been Lost

Responding to the Primary Minister’s announcement of new travel constraints for all intercontinental arrivals and the cancellation of a number of flight routes, Wesley Lesosky, President of the Airline Division of the Canadian Union of Community Staff members (CUPE), produced the pursuing statement:

“We respect the urgency and the need to have for actions to prevent the unfold of new variants in Canada. But we need to have the authorities to get the job done with us, as an alternative of towards us. Rather, pretty much a single year into this pandemic, the government nonetheless has no system to enable airways in Canada recuperate or even survive. Let’s be clear: these actions will set far more people today out of perform appropriate absent and even more jeopardize the viability of the sector for the extensive operate.

“Restrictions have to be accompanied by options. The current approval of the Spartan PCR immediate take a look at is favourable news, and we have to have the government to transfer rapidly to set it to use in this sector to save careers and make traveling safer.

“Mr. Trudeau requirements to check with himself why he is sitting down idle though staff in this sector simply call ‘mayday’ and while hundreds of Canadian work opportunities are dropped.”

CUPE represents 15,000 flight attendants at 9 Canadian airlines, three-quarters of whom are previously laid off, wanting to know if there will be an industry to return to the moment the pandemic is in excess of.

FMI: www.cupe.ca