Just shows airplanes don't fly with out AMEs signing them off as airworthy. Unions are much needed in the Aviation maintenance field. The forgotten AMEs that make less then car mechanics, heavy duty mechanics and other trades. But they have the knowledge on how to keep a +100million dollar life support machine in the air, safely.

@zachthomas5272

5 күн бұрын

As an AMT (American) I appreciate your respect for our craft.

Westjet should maybe pay their employees then.....

@Hoovie9596

5 күн бұрын

I worked for them for 13 years. We were savagely underpaid

@vincevincent6984

5 күн бұрын

Quit your belly aching everyone from every industry is underpaid 😭 .

@CookiesCritterCare

5 күн бұрын

$109,000 + and 22% increase is not good pay???? Go work at mcds, youre not worth more ​@Hoovie9596

The union is on strike however WJ has also locked out its union members at the same time making WJ liable, WJ has also walked away multiple times from the union refusing to negotiate. It’s still within WJs power to continue the 7% split on wage difference, AMFA has come down from 40% ( which WJ CEO said they were giving a month ago) to 19%, WJ has gone from 8% to 12.5% and walked away saying AMEs are being unreasonable despite being one of the lowest paid trades with one of the highest responsibilities. This is all despite giving Pilots a 35%-50% raise just less than a month ago. WJ is causing this to avoid paying a living wage, even though its industry leading 1% higher than Air Canada mechanics, it still comes extremely low compared to what AMEs do and deserve.

@evelynford6860

5 күн бұрын

Good info.They should give more respect with a better pay.Seeing the Pilot couldn't fly thr pay without them making sure all is Portable.

@user-qr3ce5my3m

4 күн бұрын

Well said. These two clowns have been acting disingenuously at best during this whole thing while playing victim in front of the media.

I have a friend who moved here from the uk,and he is flabbergasted by the level of Canadian corruption at nearly every level that he has had to deal with in the last 3 years. Its actually insane.

@semiramis47

5 күн бұрын

I lived and worked in the UK for 2 decades - you're friend must have been asleep at the wheel if he didn't notice the appalling level of corruption there that makes Canadian scammers look like amateurs - especially during the time of Labour, 'the party of bent bankers and benefits cheats' who trousered loads of dosh

@MaidenHelll

4 күн бұрын

Not to mention actual Canadians

Two rich Europeans standing up saying how they care about common Canadian travellers 🙄

@timeandmaterialsdanforth5511

5 күн бұрын

Ya. Pretty much eh.. I'm sure Canadians on the whole understand..

Maybe take the money from the executives multii million $$ bonus’. Why should we flip the bill for the rich to get richer if they didn’t manage their responsibility properly bcs any bailout usually goes to them. People are starting to see the constant corruption

He considers workers rights absurd? Sad

the union must be taking a page from worstjets playbook - for the company to say its outraged by the union ignoring the government when worstjet's been thumbing its nose at the government and its passenger protection laws for years is a bit rich - no doubt the union has noticed the government is impotent and has done nothing to hold the airline accountable

These two sociopaths seem oblivious to how human relationships work

Pay your mechanics properly, you clowns.

Pay your staff more and your shareholders a little less. Stand with the unions never the corporations.

This is karma for treating everyone terribly. Have a nice long weekend WestJet

There is a lot more to the story than just wages for a long time now Westjet has not been a great place to work

@chadt7821

5 күн бұрын

Then leave.

@neondeon475

5 күн бұрын

worst airline in Canada.

@user-qr3ce5my3m

4 күн бұрын

@@chadt7821 People ARE leaving. But it ultimately affects the canadian traveller. Wake up.

If they were doing "everything in their power" then they would pay their workers a fair wage and all flights would be on time

I'd like to know how these CEOs expect to have employees continue working without enough wages to support themselves?

@chrleschan8790

5 күн бұрын

can u support your statement. what's their salary? I just know it's not minimum wage.

@letmedietomorrow

5 күн бұрын

@@chrleschan8790 All they want is for their wages to keep up with inflation and for the company to hire enough people for proper safety maintenance. Currently, they are overworked and underpaid. This is not only for workers, but also for the safety of customers. We should not tolerate profit squeezing which knock planes out of the sky.

Meanwhile......theftjet is still selling tickets for cancelled flights. Absolutely criminal.

Stick it to the suits. Non of the suits have any interest in giving up their benefits. Aircraft without engineers are just display items.

What's your salary Johnny? "Doing everything we can?" Get back to the table. By the way what do you know about internal labour politics?

@judiphillips286

5 күн бұрын

How about getting the big bosses some greasy overalls and get them to do the work,with the same time schedule, same pay and benefits.. I'm living in a fantasy world. We all deserve a decent living wage, we all help keep the world ticking one way or another.. power to the people❤❤❤❤❤

What ever happened to the profit sharing WJ employees used to receive .I will bet the executives still got there bulging bonus.

@a.m.4467

6 күн бұрын

In December 2019, WestJet Airlines was acquired by Kestrel Bidco Inc., a subsidiary of Onex Corporation. This acquisition resulted in WestJet transitioning from a publicly traded company on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the symbol "WJA" to a private company.

@Hoovie9596

5 күн бұрын

I worked for them 2007-2020. We still have (had) profit share. It’s for the employees mainly

@alohashamanarts

5 күн бұрын

@@a.m.4467and from that point on WestJet service and quality plummeted faster than a rock tossed into the water! A wonderful airline died that day.

After seeing Boeing’s problems I think flyers may side more with the mechanics

I support the Mechanics!!!

Doing everything but paying people

I read that these union employees are the highest paid in the industry. Let them go bankrupt and fire them all.

@C00LWhip

5 күн бұрын

@@chadt7821 a severally underpaid industry for the responsibility of maintaining a +100 million dollar life support flying machine . Tons of responsibility, no respect because typically AMEs dont speak up for themselves and just keep the operation going behind the scenes. And now we are, and management and the public are now noticing us.

“AMFA has offered to meet, at any time and any place, to resume negotiations. WestJet has not responded. That is the truth.” “The truth is that, in response to WestJet’s demand that our action be declared unlawful, the Canada Industrial Relations Board, on June 28, stated in stark terms: [T]he Board heard arguments from the parties on the effect of the binding arbitration directed by the ministerial referral on the union’s right to strike … [T]he Board finds that the ministerial referral does not have the effect of suspending the right to strike or lockout… WestJet has issued a lockout notice, which it has not rescinded. Similarly, we are exercising our constitutional right to withhold our labour.”

@BCgalwithattitude

6 күн бұрын

So in the terms WestJet is at fault for stranded passengers because they unconstitutionally allowed locked out all said parties that work them which you could take to court and win.

@peterjensen9218

5 күн бұрын

You both are gonna get fired!😂

Did these 2 guys wake up this morning?And decide on what they're going to wear together

I imagine if they just stopped paying this guy they could really afford the raise.

Give microphone to the other side. Give microphone to the Union.

I would like to hear from the point of view of the mechanics!

I would never work for them. Pure corporate greed, they have destroyed this airline. We dont fly them anymore. Imagine trying to blame the workers, bunch of clowns. Our province alone has given them millions of our dollars this year. Crooks.

Their wage increases doesn't even cover the loss to inflation from the last 4 years. AC mechanics are stuck in a stale contract, obviously it'll be surpassing them. This is in you WJ, pay your mechanics! Don't play the victim game, own up to your errors, you've allowed it to come to this.

Don't pretend that you care about how this affects Canadians. You only care about your bottomline.

Stop stealing airplanes from your competition then lying about it

Same guy who took Austrians pandemic aid and paid their managers hefty bonuses 🤷‍♂️

@user-qr3ce5my3m

4 күн бұрын

I hear he's known for being a real piss tank on conference calls.

Already halfway through. I assume you're going to interview the union and get their perspective too in the second half for fairness and balance?

WestJet is a total joke. They constantly abandon their customers with no way to get home. And then deny compensation

All this mess for 8 million dollar investment to mechanics. What a joke

I almost decided to enroll in an MBA program until a family member said, "Uhh, you don't want to do that." "Why?" I asked. "Because," they said, "you have to have a conscience and you can't function as a career-minded MBA and have a conscience. You will be told to do things that you know are absolutely mean and cruel on a Dickensian Ebenezer Scrooge level. You'll have to leave your soul at the door." Boy, were they right.

We couldn’t find Canadian man or woman to be CEO of Canadian company, what is wrong with this country.

@chrleschan8790

5 күн бұрын

no

These two should be fired

Stranded in LAX. Never ever flying westjet again. This used to be a decent airline.

@nwc3270

5 күн бұрын

Use to be a great airline till the unions got ahold of it

@Hoovie9596

5 күн бұрын

We are stuck in PHX.

This is 100% on the management/executive team. Shame on the greedy executives!

Westjet used to be a great airline. My family was booked on WS419 for the Volleyball Canada Nationals in Edmonton back in May. Toronto to Edmonton. The flight was delayed, delayed, delayed, then cancelled 12 hours after it was supposed to depart. Westjet flew us to Saskatoon at 10:30PM and we had to sleep in the airport overnight, then we got to Edmonton on a commuter prop jobby the next morning. We were out over $500.00 for hotel and car rental, plus we missed a day in Edmonton. When my wife filed a claim they said GFY. So we are flying to Calgary in September for a family event...on Porter. Westjet, you can GFY. We will never, ever, ever, ever fly on Westjet, ever again.

It's not nice to treat your "guests" with the ultra basic fare. It's not nice to run to the government to fix your problems. It's not nice to blame your mechanics for everything.

A category 4 hurricane is hitting the leeward islands this morning where people are stranded because they could not get out. I personally had to drive an arduous and risky 12 hour journey because my flight was cancelled. to the engineers who went on strike, thank you for putting peoples lives at risk you idiots .

Well. How’s is this happen? No one wants to see it even mechanic doesn’t want to see this the point is people can not live under this wage anymore thanks to this government inflation and low wage pays

That's the point of a strike. It is to go afrer the income they make for you in their role in your campany. They are protesting the fact they were ordered to arbitration instead of beint allowed to negotiate for themselves..

Hearing a lot of apologies and excuses in general these days, is Canada broken?

I am stuck in Calgary anyone received any update?? or alternative flight options??

You screwed me out of a flight back in 2019!!!! I doubt youll be paying anyone their refunds. Be gone now!!

Never flying west jet again. Ever.

So DP is offering hotel vouchers as a goodwill gesture?

This is what happens when a great company that has employees as owners goes corporate. Enter sleazy unions. Customers come last as do hotels, restaurants and tour operators with cancellations

Give both of your salary to the workers

He should take his stupidity elsewhere you lose money nothing is flying the public gets mad already there is a striking union at YVR this compounds everything you leave people high and dry blame mechanics who ask for more mechanics or new parts you used to be better than Air Canada now you look like Air Canada.

Just pay your guys and get on with it.

Both your suits look expensive, sell them and use that money to pay those workers

You spent years underpaying your employees. TIME FOR CHANGE WESTJET!!!

We stand with the workers! My flight is cancelled but I understand.

question: who are your staffing managers and branch managers who manage people. hope they can answers why the union strik. the big boss got the blame because how the managers manage people

To a rouge European exec team

This is what happens when government doesn’t allow competition in Canada and we’re forced to only have two garbage airlines

Way to go guys. Hope you got what you're asking in a good collective agreement.

Pay up, Fritz!

His outrage is mostly because he’s afraid this will affect his obscene salary and bonuses!

how come they are not in the position?

It isn’t a surprise. I was waiting at a light yesterday morning waiting to cross as some girl beside me received a call from Westjet saying her flight was cxl. She said she booked a long time ago so if they over booked it should not be affecting her - from what I heard they said no the flight was not over booked

Solar activity have anything to do with flight cancellation? Northern Lights affecting things?

WestJet shutting down wouldn't be a bad thing - people would lose their jobs (those in demand will find other jobs), Air Canada prices will go up (well, the haters must see that coming WestJet goes under), etc. As long as consumers and ex-employees do NOT complain because if they did, they were the cause LOL

This is all over arrogance and ego. They were apart only 6 million bucks. The strike was lawful, CIRB confirmed this twice. Pay your engineers you cheapskates!

West Jet is a joke of an airline on a good day, I wouldn't fly with them if the tickets were free.

It’s always something with these airlines

Cheapskate Rich travellers but poor workers

Well, look at the stubborn, over compensated, little bullying rich boys. Don't be fooled by the nonsense. These type of decadent henchmen don't care about their guests. It is always, always about the bottom line. Their tragic story is they finally, now legally, have to give back the money to customers. Start fixing this problem by applying this serious concern to those that actually make the planes fly. Yes money is important but nothing happens without mechanics, machinists that train their whole careers. Look what Boeing did to the workers that wanted to make sure planes were safe.

Not just because of a strike but your lack of negotiating, get it fixed man or you will lose the faith we have had in your airline, Porter and Air Canada are doing a good job, if they can manage so can you.

This CEO is a jerk,an outraged jerk, Passengers are outraged everyday of the week flying with WestJet, There's a reason why WJ is at the bottom of the list for north american airlines in quality.

Defund fat Global News and pay WestJet mechanics' union Viva teamsters

Westjet must pay all employees by all means! CEO makes milion and strike is reasonable. Shame on you, greedy corporat rats!

This guy is like the Boeing CEO

These unionized mechanics get over 170k per year. The greed...

@littlelittle5

5 күн бұрын

How many hours do they have to work to get 170k?

@CookiesCritterCare

5 күн бұрын

​@@littlelittle5normal hours

Hire the Boeing factory mechanics to step in.

Love the union go on strike your job and work are essential stupid ceo and mangment cut their salaries and give the money to employees

Is necessary and disappointing because they get their ceo sallary

Go Mechanics !!

another liberal mess up

Pay them a lot more , they actually keep the planes in the air , unlike unless top heavy ceo bureaucrats.

Other than paying fair...first pilots, now mechanics...wondering why. As top management showing shrugged shoulders doesn't look like negotiating but, blaming the other team and assigning others the responsibility of running your company. Couldn't hear contingency plan or deadlines for next steps, you sold the tickets, can't come back crying foul and leave customers stranded!

Alguém assistindo??😊😊😊

Who cares

DRAKE CANNOT RHYME LIKE ME

@Avi-on5jp

6 күн бұрын

THEY NOT LIKE US

@NORFUM

6 күн бұрын

@@Avi-on5jp I CAN RHYME LIKE BIGGIE AND EMINEM

Reported

UNIONS ARE FOR LAZY WORKERS!! GET TO WORK!

Did you watch the video?Apparently WestJet offered an industry leading package and the union wants an industry changing package. Also, it’s gone to arbitration as they are saying, a strike serves no purpose. The public is being affected by the union, people’s lives with no skin in the game. I do belong to a union and I would not approve of this.

@cloudstrife9781

6 күн бұрын

It’s been sent to CIRB to facilitate arbitration, however negotiations are allowed to continue between WJ and AMFA at anytime, WJ executives refused to continue negotiations 2 days ago and refused to submit their counter offer despite being very close to an agreement. There was only a 7% different/8 million annually between the two and WJ just stopped negotiating in hopes the government would stop the strike. AMFA is requesting WJ to come back to the table and was forced to use the strike in an attempt again. This is 100% still in WJs hands to continue the negotiations and end this. They would rather lose millions a day then actually pay AMEs a livable wage which was far less than the actual salary increases they proudly awarded the pilots (35-50% wage increases which was just and needed)

@rhodson

6 күн бұрын

97.25% voted no with a 99% participation though

@emberlypalisoc4388

5 күн бұрын

From what I heard from a friend that works there, at the beginning of the bargaining agreement, they took half of their benefits and added it to the "new improved pay". No wonder 97% of the employees rejected it.

22% increase in pay over 4 years and they reject it and decide upending customer’s travel plans and ruin their Canada Day holidays is more fun. Who’s the greedy one here?

@brian8986

6 күн бұрын

Execs are skewing the facts. They forgot to mention the fact that any increase is at the expense of the employee's retirement savings.

@8jordan

5 күн бұрын

22% minus the 10% the shifted from retirement savings 🤣 sit down lol you know nothing

@spire107

5 күн бұрын

@@8jordan Go to arbitration then. Quietly please.

Union goes on strike, they should pay for 50% of the compensation to travelers... especially if bargaining is infront of an arbitrator.

@cloudstrife9781

6 күн бұрын

The union is on strike however WJ has also locked out its union members at the same time making WJ liable, WJ has also walked away multiple times from the union refusing to negotiate. It’s still within WJs power to continue the 7% split on wage difference, AMFA has come down from 40% ( which WJ CEO said they were giving a month ago) to 19%, WJ has gone from 8% to 12.5% and walked away saying AMEs are being unreasonable despite being one of the lowest paid trades with one of the highest responsibilities. This is all despite giving Pilots a 35%-50% raise just less than a month ago. WJ is causing this to avoid paying a living wage, even though its industry leading 1% higher than Air Canada mechanics, it still comes extremely low compared to what AMEs do and deserve.

Unions are a disrupter to life... be happy you have a good job !

@brian8986

6 күн бұрын

Be happy you have a maintenance team worried about your safety when you travel.

Union just being nasty.

@Avi-on5jp

6 күн бұрын

How them boots taste?

@brian8986

6 күн бұрын

Westjets has been the one to quit the bargaining process each and every time.

@888Longball

5 күн бұрын

@@brian8986okay but how doesn't achieve anything?

@brian8986

5 күн бұрын

​@@888Longballnot sure what you'r trying to say there. The union has been willing to negotiate throughout, even with their differences. The company kept breaking off talks, and only returned to the table at the last minute to avoid a strike. And then asks the government to clean up their mess. The only one nasty in this is the executive team from WestJet

Only one side of the story being told here and the sheep are buying it.

A category 4 hurricane is hitting the leeward islands this morning where people are stranded because they could not get out. I personally had to drive an arduous and risky 12 hour journey because my flight was cancelled. to the engineers who went on strike, thank you for putting peoples lives at risk you idiots .

@iseiyoulaitre

4 күн бұрын

Cry me a river. (And laughing my butt off to your first world problems) Techs deserve a good collective agreement period.