The ACWA (Air Canada Workers Association)

[wantmore]

i've heard to slogans out there...walk the line 2009...my favorite why wait walk 2008...ladies and gentlemen we have a wonderful company and we represent it well for all the stress were under...please if you have anyone complaing let them know that we would love to provide the service they deserve...the thing that is stopping us is our upper management...and then hand them a typed peice of paper on how they can contact Monti and Milton and encourage them to write as theirs is the only voice that will be heard...imagine this months stats are that we recvd under 1000 letters of complaint...i hear at least 500 a shift...somehting is not right

[RogerD@YYZ]

Originally Posted by RogerD@YYZ

With the dawn of a new century and millennium, the saga continued...

April 4, 2000 - Canada's airlines begin integration Air Canada is taking another big step today toward creating one dominant airline in this country. It's starting to combine its schedule with Canadian Airlines, in the wake of its $92-million take-over. Air Canada has filed for Common Employer Status.

Spring/Summer of 2000, the Feds introduced Bill C-26 to amend certain provisions of that and related Acts in consequence to deal with the growing pains of the AC/CP merger. That resulted in changes to the Law, where Individual Ownership was increased to 15% and Foreign Ownership remained at 25% cap. This maintained that no individuals, individual corporations, pairs of corporations or groups of corporations should have effective control or become dominant which means limiting the individual shareholder to 15% of common voting shares.

Aug. 30, 2000 - No buyers for Canadian Regional; joins Air Canada Canadian Regional Airlines will become part of the Air Canada stable after all.

Dec. 22, 2000 - Air Canada issues profit warning, cuts 3,500 jobs Air Canada issued a profit warning late Thursday and announced that it is cutting 3,500 jobs. Canada's largest airline also said that higher energy costs is forcing it to implement a six per cent fare hike effective Jan. 1.

Feb. 2, 2001 - Air Canada hunkers down as losses soar Canada's dominant airline, Air Canada, has reported a fourth-quarter loss of $274 million, saying it suffered from the soaring cost of jet fuel and a slowdown in travel that has it bracing for more stormy weather ahead.

March 8, 2001 - Roots Air charges Air Canada with predatory pricing Roots Air has yet to fly a single mile, but add its name to the list of airlines charging Air Canada with predatory pricing.

July 4, 2001 - Air Canada aims to cut labour costs Seeking to cut its payroll costs, Air Canada is asking its employees to take a leave of absence or voluntarily work reduced hours.

July 21, 2001 Air Canada will launch its own discount carrier Air Canada said it is backing out of its deal to launch a discount airline with SkyService, the former operator of Roots Air.

July 27, 2001 - Air Canada fined $1 million over selective disclosure case Air Canada must cough up more than $1 million as part of a settlement with securities regulators after the airline told selected analysts about lower profits before making the information public.

Sep. 11, 2001 - 911 terrorist strike at the USA.

Sep. 19, 2001 - Air Canada asks for $4 billion in aid from Ottawa.

Dec. 18, 2001 - Bill C-38 comes into force, an Act to amend the Air Canada Public Participation Act. This enactment amends the Air Canada Public Participation Act to remove the individual shareholder ownership limit on the holding of voting shares of Air Canada by any one person or group of persons acting in concert.

Feb. 7, 2002 - Air Canada reports record $1.25 billion loss for 2001.

Apr. 19, 2002 - Air Canada unveils 'Zip': new western discount.

Sept. 23, 2002 - Zip enters no-frills airline war.

Feb. 6, 2003 - Air Canada to sell assets, slash costs after posting $428-million annual loss.

Feb/Mar, 2003 - Persian Gulf War - Part 2 by US-led coalition as "Attack To Free Iraq" causes unprecedented upheaval to the US airline/aviation industry, including UA that has spill-over effects on Star Alliance Partner AC. AC calls for matching concessions to compete. US airlines use ATA to lobby more loudly for continued support and calls for partial industry re-regulation for a crippled industry.

Mar. 20, 2003 - Air Canada slashing 3,600 jobs

March 21, 2003 - Canada slashing 3,600 jobs; says war is worsening financial picture Collenette says Ottawa may help Air Canada

April 1, 2003 - Air Canada files for CCAA bankruptcy protection due mainly as a result of its inability to reach settlement with the deficit in the AC Pension Plan Trust Fund reported under-funded at C1.8B.

Eureka >>>

Feb. 19, 2004 - Air Canada and representatives of the Pension Beneficiaries Group representing unionized, non-unionized employees and retirees have come to an agreement with respect to the funding of the Air Canada pension deficit which includes a provision for a funding schedule over a 10-year period. The parties will jointly seek the approval of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions for the funding plan.

In 2003 and again in 2004, Concession Bargaining was the order-of-the-day.

Following that, PROFIT$ with rewards to only certain select stakeholders of the corporate elite and their vulture fund shareholders have followed as AC (Another Crisis) lands on another pretext to position and demand even more concessions.

Should Canada should open itself up to more foreign ownership?