Same old story though, no seniority solution, no agreement. Lots of work to be done.
No Bruce, It is not the same old story. The seniority solution is NOT tied to the agreement.
There will be an arbitrated solution to the B777/B787 agreement.
Then as a separate issue there will be mediation on the seniority problem. It will be a rather pointless mediation because ALPA who still represents the original Canadian Airlines pilots, has said they will not take part. How do you have mediation when one side is not there? The out come of this mediation will then be reviewed by the CIRB and it is going to be pretty difficult to convince the CIRB that what has happened over the last 6 years has to be totally scrapped and they need to start all over again.
So the pilots at Air Canada will be forced to take more concessions and they seniority issues will still not be resolved.