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STRIKING AIR CANADA REGIONAL PILOTS RALLY

WHERE: Parliament Hill, Ottawa

WHEN: Wednesday, February 5th, 1997 at 10:00am

WHY: The 900 pilots of the four wholly owned and controlled Air Canada
subsidiaries (Air Alliance, Air BC, Air Ontario, Air BC and Air Nova)
have been on legal strike since January 10th. Why? The employer reneged
on their own proposal on December 4th 1996 during conciliation meetings
in Toronto. This has cause the impasse that has subsequently forced us
to strike in order to get the company back to the table. Instead of
seaking a resolution or returning back to the bargaining table (with
proposal), Air Canada and its four subsidiaries have hired strike
breakers - some of which are from the United States. 

Air Canada and its subsidiaries are refusing to comment to the public or
the media as to why they reneged on their proposal, and as to why they
are provoking the striking pilots by offering promotions and encouraging
the public to travel on the struck routes. Air Canada and the
subsidiaries are unscrupulously offering triple-airmiles if traveling
with the struck airline. This only serves to exacerbate the situation.

Enough is enough. The CLC, the BC Fed of Labour, SCEP, FTQ, CEQ, CSN and
the Union of Defense Employees are amongst the large labour groups that
are boycotting Air Canada until this labour dipute is resolved. Last
week the Premier of BC, Mr. Glen Clark also wrote the president-CEO of
Air Canada asking him to put and end to strike and to seek a fair and
reasonnable solution.

The striking pilots and the bilingual spokespeople on site will be
please to speak to the public and further explain this dispute, the
largest ever legal pilot strike in the history of canadian aviation.

Thank you for your attention and for reading this posting.


Capt. Vincent Charron   (charv@total.net)
M.E.C. Chairman
ALPA-CANADA Council 218
Quebec-City, QC. (Air Alliance)