days until our Collective Agreement expires, we are preparing, we are united and we will make change.

A brief explanation of your AC CUPE and CAIL CUPE pension plans:

Air Canada flight attendants automatically become members of the pension plan when they begin their employment with Air Canada. For former CAIL employees the plan was not mandatory until 2007. The AC pension plans are defined benefit plans that provide the pension plan member with a set pension benefit when they retire from the company.  …

PBS Bidding Extension – July Bid Period​

We were made aware of a PBS system outage on the afternoon of June 15, 2018. The issue has since been addressed by NavBlue, our software vendor. Since the outage was more than four (4) hours, there will be an extension to the bid period in order to allow you sufficient time to place your …

Defined Contribution Plan Contributions

Nathalie Henderson, the Senior Director, AC Pensions, recently wrote the Component President with several important observations of CUPE’s Hybrid Defined Contribution (DC) pension plan members (all flight attendants hired after November 7, 2011 are in the Hybrid plan).  We thought it would be appropriate to pass this information along to our DC plan members. The …

No Same Day Pairings

The current configuration of No Same Day Pairings (under Set Condition) for both Mainline and Rouge is that if PBS must deny the bid line then Else Start Next Bid Group will be triggered, even if the Else Start Next Bid Group option is not selected. This configuration will be changed to include the option …

Bylaw Amendment Referendum

As per section B.12.5 of the Air Canada Component of CUPE Bylaws, and section B.5.1(c) of the CUPE Constitution, we are providing you with sixty (60) days’ notice that a Referendum vote to amend the Air Canada Component of CUPE Bylaws will be taking place.  The Referendum vote will begin on Monday, July 30, 2018 …