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Originally Posted by Lubicon
What are they unhappy with? There's lots of moving pieces in this but one thing I found interesting (if true, but it was reported by CBC) is that the only thing they will be voting on is the actual pay increase. That is vague but may mean they are not voting on the change to how they are paid etc. Only the percentage increases?
Iggy, is this common - where union membership votes only on part of the agreement?
"CBC News has learned that the only thing that the flight attendants will vote on are the proposed salary increases."
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No it’s not common(or IMO even sensible from a labour relations perspective) for a Union to vote on a single issue like that, it is however very common for the media to not accurately report on labour issues.
Without any context as I haven’t read the article or even the offer for that matter, my guess is the CBC are trying to say that aside from the wage and ground pay issues there aren’t any changes to the the last rejected offer. So essentially all they are voting on this time is the monetary changes.