WestJet Flight Attendants

• WestJet begins parking 737 aircraft as strike deadline approaches

  If a negotiated agreement on a new contract can’t be reached by Aug. 2 at midnight mountain time, those unionized flight attendants could walk off the job.

  Canada

  Jul 31
  
• WestJet, union talks ‘progressing’ as strike deadline nears, minister says

  Close to 4,400 union members represented by CUPE Local 8125 could walk off the job as soon as Sunday, Aug. 2, unless both sides reach a negotiated agreement on a new contract.

  Canada

  Jul 29
  
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• WestJet flight attendants hold information pickets as strike vote takes place

  Almost a year after Air Canada's flight attendants went on strike over the issue of unpaid work, flight attendants at WestJet are threatening to do the same.

  Consumer

  Jul 14
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• Court orders WestJet to give files on alleged flight attendant harassment

  The underlying claim in the long-running lawsuit, filed in 2016, alleges WestJet breached flight attendants' contracts by breaking a promise to provide a harassment-free workplace.

  Canada

  Jan 6, 2025
• ‘Mind-blowing’: B.C. mother believes WestJet profiled her due to her tattoos

  Brittney Draper was travelling from Vancouver to Terrace on July 7 because her six-year-old son, Israel James, had undergone reconstructive eye surgery in B.C. Children's Hospital.

  Education

  Jul 12, 2023
• WestJet flight attendants set to unionize

  For the last year, CUPE has been working with WestJet flight attendants to form a union.

  Money

  Jul 9, 2018
• WestJet union drive helped by dissatisfaction with pay formula, says flight attendant

  Growing anger among WestJet flight attendants about a compensation model that restricts hourly wages to time actually spent in the sky bodes well for a unionization drive at the airline, according to one employee who backs labour organization.

  Money

  Mar 16, 2018
• WestJet asks B.C. Supreme Court to reject class-action alleging harassment of female employees

  WestJet is arguing that the harassment allegations are being heard in the wrong setting, and that employees should be taking their cases to human rights tribunals and workers' compensation boards instead.

  Canada

  Nov 9, 2017