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 name. It is not a ratified book. Friday adds no counted ballot.

The paper's Thursday brief already treated progress as a press noun. Alia Hussain spent last week saying meaningful progress was still up to the company. [2] The 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 still a press noun.

A tentative agreement is a proposal. Canadian aviation has rejected those before. Friday'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] The members still own the verb. Friday is still a scheduled vote, not a filed contract. Residual cancels can outlive the handshake. Unpaid ground time either appears in the clauses or it does not. Progress remains a press noun until the ballot is counted.

-- THEO KAPLAN, San Francisco