As a VERY frequent traveller on Air Canada I have been following the news over the past few weeks with some moderate interest wrt the CAW's (Specifically Buzz Hargrove's) dinosaur like union dogma and his willingness to put all of his union members jobs at risk for the sake of principle.
I find it incredibly curious how Buzz is so willing to note how poor union workers are trampled under the feet of management when he spends the CAW's membership money on first class return tickets between Ottawa and Toronto (A one hour flight and with a ticket cost differential of about 70% for restricted business class.)
I saw both Stockewell day and Buzz on an AC filight from Ottawa to Toronto and guess which one of the two was in business class. I'll give you a hint. It was the MP. Sorry I digress.
Now in fairness to Buzz, I also have a huge issue with Robert Milton. This is a man who took the reins of a profitable and well run company and has run it into the ground. For those that cite 9/11 and the price of gas, your arguements are valid but AC's woes began long before 09/01 and the blame for many Air Canada's problems need to be placed firmly on the shoulders of a CEO who treats humans as cargo and has destroyed this company from the top down.
From the CEO, to the inflated fares, to the domenatrix like biatch at the gate at La Guardia, to the rude guy that monitors 'ushers' the cattlegate like line at terminal two on Monday mornings to the baggage Nazi in San Francisco that will allow someone with a poodle in a gym bag on a plane but insists that a briefcase with a laptop be checked if it is litterally 0.5 pounds over weight and then insists that you can't take the hard cover novel that you were going to read on the plane out of said briefcase to bring it under the limit, to the unions with inflated salaries that stimulate medocrity and poor work ethics. This is an incredibly disfunctional company and I hope to god that the government does not step in to save it if it comes to that. Open up competition. Remove the limits on foriegn control over transportation providers but for the love of God do not give these people any more money
I find it incredibly curious how Buzz is so willing to note how poor union workers are trampled under the feet of management when he spends the CAW's membership money on first class return tickets between Ottawa and Toronto (A one hour flight and with a ticket cost differential of about 70% for restricted business class.)
I saw both Stockewell day and Buzz on an AC filight from Ottawa to Toronto and guess which one of the two was in business class. I'll give you a hint. It was the MP. Sorry I digress.
Now in fairness to Buzz, I also have a huge issue with Robert Milton. This is a man who took the reins of a profitable and well run company and has run it into the ground. For those that cite 9/11 and the price of gas, your arguements are valid but AC's woes began long before 09/01 and the blame for many Air Canada's problems need to be placed firmly on the shoulders of a CEO who treats humans as cargo and has destroyed this company from the top down.
From the CEO, to the inflated fares, to the domenatrix like biatch at the gate at La Guardia, to the rude guy that monitors 'ushers' the cattlegate like line at terminal two on Monday mornings to the baggage Nazi in San Francisco that will allow someone with a poodle in a gym bag on a plane but insists that a briefcase with a laptop be checked if it is litterally 0.5 pounds over weight and then insists that you can't take the hard cover novel that you were going to read on the plane out of said briefcase to bring it under the limit, to the unions with inflated salaries that stimulate medocrity and poor work ethics. This is an incredibly disfunctional company and I hope to god that the government does not step in to save it if it comes to that. Open up competition. Remove the limits on foriegn control over transportation providers but for the love of God do not give these people any more money
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