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Other NewsTuesday January 27, 2009 Finnair pilots represented by the Finnish Airline Pilots Assn. will stop working overtime hours and have called strikes for Feb. 11, 13, 16, 18 and 20, the airline announced. Finnair and the union reached a six-month labor agreement last summer providing for a one-time 3.9% wage increase on top of the annual 4.5% bump. The carrier said pilots now want an additional 4% raise and changes in pension arrangements, fleet deployment policy and rest days that Finnair said would boost costs by an additional 7% per year. It said its 800 pilots constitute 8% of the company's workers and 26% of its employment costs.
Air Canada plans to lay off or furlough 345 flight attendants starting in March. The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents the cabin staff, confirmed the cuts that will come on top of the 600-plus flight attendant positions cut by AC last year (ATWOnline, July 16, 2008). An AC spokesperson told The Globe and Mail, "The expectation is that the layoffs will be temporary" and may be rescinded if demand increases during the summer. AC plans to reduce the number of flight attendants in transatlantic business class from three to two.
