Or even get enough time off to travel! I've had 3 friends work there! One in management one was a pilot and a front desk Check in. All of them quit!

maybe WJ, should prioritize paying the people that make it possible for them to fly people around for money = the last person in an air transportation equation, to not get paid are the MECHANICS, who determine whether you LIVE or DIE, while using airplanes

WestJet trump card was Shameless O’Regan who gave them falls hope and made it worse. Counting on Shameless O’Regan denying Aircraft Maintenance Engineers their constitutional right to strike. A Labour Minister ignorant of the law outsmarted by American Lawyers of AMFA. Forcing arbitration on workers voting NO 97.25% who had not a chance to present the reason on rejection and smearing the Union and workers as being paid fairly. When those engineers sign an aircraft maintenance release his or her faith against lawsuits and jail time is always on their minds in case of accidents

Maybe Canada should have more options right! Like competition! I feel really bad for you but it's not the workers fault! It's the government and west jet CEOs

And people thought A/C and Flair had the most complaints about service.

I can't refuse to work until I get my own way! Striking is a PRIVILEGE NOT A RIGHT, one that's repeatedly abused! It would only be a right if everyone could do it! And this privilege was granted over a century ago to solve a problem that no longer exists and would not be law today! They make close to 100 grand with huge benefits and perks. And people are seriously implying that we need to give them more money because they keep the planes safe? So it would be okay for them to not do their jobs properly, literally killing people if they don't get their huge raises? And they were offered a 23% raise, on top of their nearly six figures, one est is 109,000, well above average. They're disrupting people's travel and lives to indulge greed!

@@carolyn3172 you have no idea lol Union wouldn’t have been brought in if WJ treated its employees properly in the first place. Instead corporate greed set a precedent and caused many to people to quit before this all started. Wages across the entire aircraft maintenance industry and at WJ in particular were falling way behind. Change was desperately needed just retain the AME’s they had left. And before you say something stupid like “just hire more”, there AREN’T anymore. The talent pipeline is dryer than it’s ever been because people don’t want a stressful job that pays less than what your average automotive mechanic makes. The rhetoric that’s been thrown out regarding wages is wrong. Fast forward to a few months ago. WestJet left the table, strike notice issued. WestJet comes back, strike averted, talks resume. Fast forward to a week ago. Union stood their ground and WJ didn’t like that. They cried and played victim in front of the media and then ran to the fed to push the CIRB to impose back to work legislation. CIRB pushed arbitration instead at which point WJ left the table (again). Strike notice was issued again followed by a lockout by WJ. The union was legally within their rights to strike. WJ played dirty. The union called their bluff, and won. The timing is unfortunate but it was the result of a chess move instigated by WJ, not the union. This is not greed, this is standing up for what you deserve. The deal they won will make such a tiny dent to WJ’s balance sheet, but it’s anyone’s guess as to how much it will affect executive bonuses! These guys don’t work 9-5 Monday to Friday. Days, nights, holidays, 10-12 shifts….whatever the schedule calls for. Anybody who has a clue what’s going on here is tired of hearing people like you complain. Nobody cares what you “think” they should be paid. This has been a long time coming. You wonna boycott WJ? Then do it because of upper managements attitude.

Hopefully the 5 and 10 year Government of Canada bond yields will hold or rise for the sake of the retirees and savers.

Talk a lot, say nothing lol

All these service jobs are going to start getting the same treatment. TTC another example

It's always about profit margins. Megacorps can't "afford" to lose a single cent.

The short answer is yes. Westjet is no longer what it once was. It is ran by a massive private equity firm. That should tell you most of what you need to know.

@@alexg9727 you mean ESSENTIAL service jobs, that YOU need, to know when you get on a plane, they're SAFE + when you ride on a BUS/TRAIN, they're safe = MECHANICS are the last people, who should get disrespected by their employer, otherwise, you might die, simply taking a ride or flying = if you don't like that, then you should invent a machine, that you trust, to do their jobs

Garbage minded mechanic’s… they know how to do the Russian style force… when the people at holiday need it mostly to fly home they back stabbing the safety… 😡

Tell that to the ceos then

No, we need to make sure that executives actually know what they are doing and bargain in good faith, instead of kicking and screaming to the media and the fed when they don’t get what they want and walk away from the table multiple times. AMFA took the high road and did everything right. The timing of the strike over the weekend was a chess move instigated by WJ, not the union.

@@user-qr3ce5my3m . Instagators are part of the problem but it was the Union that pulled the trigger.

@@TDRE88 the union needs to know. They pulled the trigger and want to blame it on someone else

what other effective options do you recommend

​@@stevestevens502 Finding a new job.

@@user-vc4mp6el1g just another all talk, no solution comment lol

you have no respect for the people who make sure the planes are safe??? That's a pretty dumb thing to say out loud/on-purpose

@@DaFactsNoNonsense1713 I have respect for mechanics, but I have no respect for greed. We live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet people still complain about not making enough. Meanwhile,nmost people live in a making a few dollars a day. It's frankly disgusting.

companies should pay their employees, instead of holding their customers hostage

You can start with the boycott

they care so little, they repair the planes, the customers fly-in, safely = you don't sound dumb at all

Oneside we feared aircraft incidents so much, on the otherside, we don't wanna pay the engineers who sure we don't fall 30000ft from sky. I don't get it. We don't pray to God for a safe trip, we pray for pilots and engineers. Soon as the airplane takes off, our life is literally fully in those people's hand. I'd rather pay more portions of my ticket price to those people than less.

@@DaFactsNoNonsense1713 Of course they do, they're paid very well for it, if they cared about customers they wouldn't be holding them hostage until, their greed is indulged!

@@carolyn3172 so you know how much mechanics get paid, without being a mechanic??? Plus, they don't care about customers, while fixing the planes, customers use to travel-in?? If the mechanics didn't care about customers, YOU WOULD BE DEAD FROM A FLIGHT = I'm not surprised + the MECHANICS aren't surprised how UNGRATEFUL you are for their NEEDED services = maybe you should take the train from now on

Not engineers, but mechanics! Just mechanics!

That’s already how it works…..CIRB was called in to arbitrate however this wasn’t the result WJ execs were hoping for. They played dirty, union called their bluff, and won.