Preserving Air Canada Pension Benefits:
Joint Statement of Air Canada Unions
Air Canada is known as one of the highest-quality airlines in the world, precisely because of the skill and commitment of its employees to provide the best, safest service possible. Yet Air Canada’s workforce has endured many years of economic sacrifice and uncertainty. Through repeated episodes of corporate bankruptcy and near-bankruptcy, Air Canada employees have endured wage cuts and wage freezes, the loss of benefits and paid time off, and ongoing deterioration in working conditions and stress levels. We have also experienced an erosion in the financial well-being of our pension plan – a plan to which the workers contribute through significant payroll deductions.
