Originally Posted by
pkeung
This would be great if it were able to let happen. The Canadian government saves the jobs of the few, overpaid, unionized AC employees at the expense of all of us consumers. Open up the skies. The airlines that have come and failed never had a chance as they didn't enter a free market.
We as consumer would be better off if our government ever did truly let AC die and re-emerge as a world class competitive airline.
Those unionized employees have given back more than one-third of their pay to keep those jobs. I suppose in your world, they should give up their pensions too -- as most US carriers have forced their employees to do -- to keep up with the bottom feeding carriers like WS that have no such benefits for their employees? How many families do you think WS employees can support in the middle class lifestyle most NAmericans ascribe to? WS is a great place to work if you are young and looking for a glamorous first job, but you certainly cannot make a career out of being a front line employee and hope to raise a family, pay your bills, and have some security in your retirement years. But of course, most Free Market capitalists would disavow such values from work!