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5. EMPLOYEES AND LABOUR RELATIONS
As at December 31, 2006, the Corporation had 27,384 full-time equivalent (“FTE”) employees (Air Canada
Services – 23,101; Jazz – 4,283). The following table provides a breakdown of the Corporation’s average FTE
employees for the fourth quarter of 2006 and 2005 and for the full year 2006 and 2005 together with the unions
that represent them.
Employee Group Union(1)
Fourth quarter
2006
Fourth quarter
2005
2006 2005
Management and Administrative Support
(3)
N/A
(2) 3,017 3,504 3,191 3,410
Pilots ACPA 2,708 2,541 2,625 2,546
Flight Attendants CUPE 5,985 6,011 6,062 6,167
Customer Sales and Service Agents
(3) CAW/IBT 3,650 3,975 3,767 3,962
Technical Services, Ramp and Cargo
(3) IAMAW 6,812 6,924 6,812 6,766
United Kingdom Unionized Employees Amicus/TGWU 697 682 691 704
Other Unionized 478 479 482 488
Air Canada Services
23,347 24,116 23,630 24,043
Jazz 4,272 3,801 4,144 3,582
Consolidated 27,619 27,917 27,774 27,625
(1) ACPA: Air Canada Pilots Association; CUPE: Canadian Union of Public Employees; CAW: National Automobile,
Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada; IBT: International Brotherhood of Teamsters;
IAMAW: International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers; and TGWU: Transport and General
Workers Union.
(2) Certain administrative support employees are represented by IAMAW.
(3) Not included in the numbers presented in the table above, pursuant to the Aeroplan General Services Agreement
(“Aeroplan GSA”), Aeroplan has agreed to reimburse Air Canada on a fully-allocated basis for all costs, including
salary and benefits, related to a group of call centre employees who are represented by the CAW and are currently
working for Aeroplan's benefit. Such group represented 853 FTE employees as at December 31, 2006 and 852
FTE employees as at December 31, 2005. In addition to the numbers presented in the above table, pursuant to the
ACTS General Services Agreements (“ACTS GSAs”), ACTS has agreed to reimburse Air Canada on a fully-
allocated basis for all costs, including salary and benefits, related to a group of unionized and a group of non-
unionized employees currently working for the benefit of ACTS. Such groups represented 3,923 FTE employees as
at December 31, 2006 and 4,063 FTE employees as at December 31, 2005.
Air Canada has long-term collective bargaining agreements with its pilots, flight attendants, maintenance
personnel, certain clerical and finance personnel, customer service agents, ramp and cargo employees,
dispatchers and crew schedulers which were concluded in 2003 and 2004 and which expire in 2009. No strikes
or lock-outs may lawfully occur during the term of the collective agreements. In 2006, Air Canada concluded
wage re-opener agreements, mediations or arbitrations under the collective agreements with all its union
groups. It is still awaiting the arbitrator's decision in respect of its flight attendants, who are represented by
CUPE. The wage increases awarded or agreed upon range from 0 to 2.5 percent per year until 2009. The
CUPE arbitration award decision is expected during the first quarter of 2007.
Jazz has completed negotiation, mediation and arbitration with all of its unions with the exception of the
Canadian Air Lines Dispatchers (“CALDA”), the union representing Jazz’s dispatchers. The wage increases
awarded range from 1 to 1.75 percent per year until 2009. The wage re-opener negotiations with CALDA are
continuing.
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