For those that dont know, air canada, and acpa, FAILED the BFOR test that was required by ALL parties at the CHRT hearings. The other interesting note about this, is, that acpa was not allowed to submit/denied, a BFOR test, as they were an association/union, and not a business/company. So, acpa was denied any BFOR representation, even though, they tried to do it.
air canada, is NOT the principal employeer in the country as per the BFOR criteria. Therefore, they, and acpa, can not, by law, set the retirement age. The BFOR test is very narrow, and requires a great deal of information, that is obtained from each of the country's airlines, by supena, from the courts. The information is certified by the courts. Both, ac, and acpa lost the BFOR case a long time ago.
Without the BFOR, they (ac and acpa) can not continue the course of action that they are still bent on doing, at great cost to all pilots. It will end in the near future, and the lack of information to the acpa pilots that say...they are against this, will be very disappointing to say the least.
The information from acpa, and ac is nil, and what has been said in the past has been washed down so much it is next to useless. Did NOT have to be this way, but ac/acpa sided together, (ac insisted acpa sign on to the liabiltiy side of the BFOR case, which they did, no one could believe they did that), that is going to cause problems in acpa when the CHRT rules on the Remedy side of this issue. That could be one of the reasons....that ac is fighting this issue, as they are hoping to collapse acpa. Ask yourself, why would ac fight this, when they are going to save money on many issues when this finally completes?? Does that not seem strange to any of you who are against the age 60 issue?
Last edited by 777longhaul; 7th Sep 2010 at 02:38.