{"id":886902,"date":"2026-09-07T16:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886902\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T16:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T16:12:17","slug":"cupe-celebrating-last-months-big-win-for-westjet-flight-attendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886902\/","title":{"rendered":"CUPE Celebrating Last Month\u2019s \u2018Big Win\u2019 for Westjet Flight Attendants"},"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\/09\/cupe-nl-logo.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"CUPE Celebrating Last Month's 'Big Win' for Westjet Flight Attendants\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Union of Public Employees is celebrating what it calls its greatest victory this Labour Day following last month\u2019s labour dispute at WestJet. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/08\/02\/flights-cancelled-as-westjet-goes-on-strike\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flights were cancelled in August,<\/a> forcing travelers to scramble to find alternative arrangements.  <\/p>\n<p>While a disruption for passengers, CUPE NL President Sherry Hillier says<a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/08\/04\/westjet-flights-resume-out-of-yyt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> getting a fair deal for flight attendants <\/a>was a resounding victory for the union and its workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government stayed out of that, it was a big win for CUPE across the country and a good win for the unionized flight attendants at WestJet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flight attendants at Air Canada\u2019s regional carrier, Jazz, are in a similar dispute with their employer. <\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/WestJet-Plane-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-101797\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The Canadian Union of Public Employees is celebrating what it calls its greatest victory this Labour Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886903,"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-886902","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\/886902","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=886902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}