IAM-represented Flight Attendants at Wasaya Airways in Thunder Bay and Sioux Lookout have ratified a three-year collective agreement that includes significant wage increases, cost-of-living protection, and quality-of-life improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new contract introduces a new pay scale with Consumer Price Index (CPI) protection, ensuring wages adjust alongside inflation. Members will receive a 4% increase on ratification, followed by 1.5\u20133% increases in Years 2 and 3, tied to the Ontario CPI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Other highlights include enhanced pension contributions based on years of service, 10 federal sick days with the option to cash out up to 5 unused days annually, increased per diems and shoe\/boot allowances, and a new additional day off in a 28-day block after 5 years of service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis agreement recognizes the demanding work our flight attendants do and the challenges they face<\/em>,\u201d said Chris Greniuk, General Chairperson at IAM Union. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to secure not only fair pay increases and inflation protection but also improvements that support their well-being and work-life balance.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n With this agreement, IAM members continue to make progress toward fair compensation and a safer, more supportive workplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" IAM-represented Flight Attendants at Wasaya Airways in Thunder Bay and Sioux Lookout have ratified a three-year collective agreement that includes significant wage increases, cost-of-living protection, and quality-of-life improvements. The new contract introduces a new pay scale with Consumer Price Index (CPI) protection, ensuring wages adjust alongside inflation. Members will receive a 4% increase on ratification, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":32694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[63,61,62,2437],"class_list":["post-32708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-iam","tag-union","tag-wasaya","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-large"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32709,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32708\/revisions\/32709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iam140.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}