Félag íslenskra atvinnuflugmanna styður kjarabaráttu flugmanna Air Canada

Þeir félagsmenn IALPA sem starfa hjá Air Canada eru kjaraviðræðum við sinn vinnuveitanda. Ekki hefur tekist að vinna til baka þær lífsgæða og kjaraskerðingar sem heimsfaraldurinn COVID 19 olli.

Félags íslenskra atvinnuflugmanna sendi þeim stuðningsyfirlýsingu í aðdraganda verkfallsins og hana má sjá hér fyrir neðan:

August 30th 2024

Dear Charlene Hudy CC: Sebastian Curras

This letter is written on behalf of the members and board of the Icelandic Airline Pilots Association (FIA) and fully reflects our combined opinion on the matters at hand.

Regarding the issue of the Air Canada pilot group and the Air Canada management.

As the pilot group has consistently worked to ensure the continued operational stability of the airline during the Covid pandemic and indeed has taken unprecedented cut in life and working conditions and undertaken extraordinary operational flexibility to ensure continuity, it is inexplicable that now the airline is in resurgence that the management would not seek to readdress this imbalance and work with the pilot’s group to find a mutually acceptable outcome.

The voluntary and generous measures that many members took during the Covid pandemic to secure the futures of their respective airlines is not to be used as a means of now downgrading their contracts or conditions to a new low. This kind of management strong arm technique is an opportunistic and disgraceful tactic, especially given the very significant efforts and degradation in living/work standards that the crews endured to secure the airlines continuity.

We, the Icelandic Airline Pilots Association (FIA) are fully in support of ALPA working to secure a mutually acceptable outcome and if necessary, any industrial action that is needed in support of this effort.

The Icelandic Airline Pilots Association (FIA), are committed to working with ALPA to ensure that all members can expect and receive the right to open and constructive negotiations. It is clearly not an effective solution for any management group to dismiss, out of hand, any sensible negotiations by their employees.

With best regards,

Jonas Gudmundsson

Director of International Affairs

Icelandic Airline Pilots Association