Conservatives Invoke Back-to-Work Legislation to Help Air Canada Extort Concessions
Submitted on September 21, 2011
By Keith Jones - WSWS
Bowing before the federal Conservative government’s threat to introduce strikebreaking legislation, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) announced Tuesday afternoon that it had reached a tentative contract agreement with Air Canada covering 6,800 flight attendants and was, consequently, rescinding, a strike notice.
