{"id":833684,"date":"2026-07-29T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833684\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:02:09","slug":"westjet-flight-attendants-could-strike-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833684\/","title":{"rendered":"WestJet Flight Attendants Could Strike This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/westjet-airplane-aircraft-plane-travel-air-aviation-flying-boeing.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"WestJet Flight Attendants Could Strike This Weekend\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(WestJet)<\/p>\n<p>WestJet flight attendants could be walking off the job as early as this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Cabin crew members voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike and could hit the picket line as early as this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The union says wages and claims of unpaid work remain major sticking points.<\/p>\n<p>CUPE remains at the bargaining table with the airline. <\/p>\n<p>WestJet says travellers booked between July 30 and August 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westjet.com\/en-ca\/get-travel-ready\/advisories\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">can change or cancel their booking <\/a>at no cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; (WestJet) WestJet flight attendants could be walking off the job as early as this weekend. Cabin crew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-833684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}