Originally Posted by
Fisch
Oh, what a disrespectful way to write a press release. The tone is all wrong. This is not going to help their cause. They should start by being thankful for the assistance that the airline is receiving before asking for special treatment.
This is a program that is keeping a lot of businesses alive, especially in the tourism and hospitability industry. WestJet is in the same boat as many other businesses that are waiting for details on what this program looks like in January. The details until the end of the year have been out from some time, what is unknown is what happens in January.
The federal government announced its intention to extend the program into the summer. The government now needs to go to parliament and obtain a mandate from the tax payers representatives to extend the program.
It is also weird this is from the union and not some type of joint new release from the company and unions. They need to come up with a common consistent request before they start demanding the government do things.