Who are we?

We are the Union representing more than 1300 Porter Airlines Cabin Crew.

The Union Leadership and Officers are Flight Attendants and Pursers from all 5 crew bases in Canada (YOW, YTZ, YUL, YVR, YYZ), who have been elected by their peers to represent them, protect their rights, and bargain our first Collective Agreement.

Our 1300+ members are dedicated and hard working safety professionals, who are committed to ensuring the safety and comfort of our 7.5 million passengers a year across North America.

Our logo represents the aircraft we work on and the growth of our membership, from both the Dash 8-400 and E2-195.

We recognize and acknowledge the relationship that the First Nations, Inuit and Metis across Canada have with the land all Canadians live on and enjoy. Acknowledging this land helps us clear our minds, honour creation, and remember our responsibilities towards the land, its people, and our mission. 

Most importantly, it brings our minds together from various individual journeys we are all on so that we can walk together for a short time. We are reminded that 634 different First Nations communities, 53 Inuit communities and 8 Metis settlements have a unique, cultural, spiritual and environmentally sustainable connection to the land that their people and ancestors have inhabited since time immemorial.

We encourage all members to learn about and regularly acknowledge the historic and current relationship that exists between and unceded land on which we live and work. We also encourage all members to consider how they can personally contribute to Canada’s reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples and the 94 calls to action.

Union solidarity is based on the principle that union members are equal and deserve mutual respect at all levels. Any behaviour that creates conflict prevents us from working together to strengthen our union.

As unionists, mutual respect, cooperation, and understanding are our goals. We should neither condone nor tolerate behaviour that undermines the dignity or self-esteem of any individual or creates an intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.

Discriminatory speech or conduct which is racist, sexist, transphobic, or homophobic hurts and thereby divides us. So too does discrimination on the basis of ability, age, class, religion and ethnic origin.

Sometimes discrimination takes the form of harassment. Harassment means using real or perceived power to abuse, devalue, or humiliate. Harassment should not be treated as a joke. The uneasiness and resentment that it creates are not feelings that help us grow as a union.

Discrimination and harassment focus on characteristics that make us different; and they reduce our capacity to work together on shared concerns such as decent wages, safe working conditions, and justice in the workplace, society, and in our union.

CUPE’s policies and practices must reflect our commitment to equality. Members, staff, and elected officers must be mindful that all persons deserve dignity, equality, and respect.