{"id":836067,"date":"2026-07-30T14:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836067\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:47:16","slug":"westjet-flight-attendants-union-serves-72-hour-strike-notice-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836067\/","title":{"rendered":"WestJet flight attendants&#8217; union serves 72-hour strike notice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY \u2014 A union representing 4,400 flight attendants at WestJet has issued 72-hour strike notice.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Union of Public Employees says the airline then issued a 72-hour lockout notice.<\/p>\n<p>While giving notice of a strike does not mean flight attendants will hit the picket lines, a strike could begin as soon as Sunday if the two sides don\u2019t reach a deal.<\/p>\n<p>WestJet has been allowing passengers with flights scheduled any time between July 30 and Aug. 4 to make a one-time change or cancel it with no fee.<\/p>\n<p>The union has said key issues include unpaid work for tasks such as ground duties, while WestJet has said all duties are compensated through a \u201ccredit hour\u201d system rather than an hourly rate.<\/p>\n<p>The airline says it operates more than 600 flights per day, carrying more than 70,000 passengers on some days.<\/p>\n<p>More coming.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Calgary as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=calgary.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784110070_915_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 A union representing 4,400 flight attendants at WestJet has issued 72-hour strike notice. The Canadian Union&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[45,49,2798,48,3717,47,2882],"class_list":["post-836067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada","tag-labour","tag-national","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836067","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=836067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}