Good Morning L.I.S.
You mentioned: very simple solution to all this is to let one pilot retire early for every pilot who retires Late". The following in a previous post would you please educate us in the 2% penalty provision per year retiring early refers under the current collective agreement for retiring. Or in today's environment have the company swallow that one or how about the membership. Wow look at the GREEDY S.O.B. who wants to retire early I will have to support him/her.
Greed? How is it greedy that he wants to continue at Air Canada and not start collecting his pension? As far as "double dipping" Mr Ennis is going to THY where he will be making much more than at Air Canada. Oh this one is very difficult, until it was fashionable to have a collective agreement which I might add was contractually agreed by both company and legal teams from both sides reviewed word by word it was put to the membership for a vote. Guess what the majority of the union accepted that provision through voting. Now a minority in the 3,000 (5 percent) pilots is now taking this to Canada Human Rights Tribunal because their human rights are being violated
Your argument would have more intellectual credibility if you mentioned if you either showed up at a council meeting with someone to second your motion to have the L.E.C. take your concerns to the M.E.C. or run for union office with your platform being the abolishment of contractually oh sorry "FORCED" retirement.
From the reader's comments in response to Mr Ennis's Globe and Mail article and from PPRuNe there is much thoughtful discussion here than at AvCanada which seems to produce discourse analogous to phyla pastry which if you have not tried it is light and fluffy.