WestJet and CUPE withdrew strike and lockout notices Monday after a tentative agreement. The text goes to cabin crew for a vote. [1] That is progress the union can now name. It is not a ratified book.

Alia Hussain spent last week saying meaningful progress was still up to the company. [2] The paper's Freeland brief treated the minister's weather report as a miss on the weekend walkout. Tuesday's word is the union's, attached to a deal whose clauses are not public in the airline release.

About 4,400 mainline attendants walked after the August 2 deadline. Hundreds of flights died. [3] Residual cancels can outlive a handshake. Unpaid ground time was the gap that produced the notice. Until members see the duty-pay language, "progress" is a press noun.

A tentative agreement is a proposal. Canadian aviation has rejected those before. Tuesday's completed record is a vote scheduled, not a contract filed.

Freeland's "progressing" last week described a table that then produced a walkout. [2] Hussain can now use the same noun for a text. The members still own the verb. Unpaid ground time either appears in the clauses or it does not.

-- THEO KAPLAN, San Francisco