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Air Canada is facing labor issues as contracts with all of its major unions expire. The airline is looking to cut costs to compete, but workers say that they are more interested in making up some of the wages and benefits they lost in trying to help the airline. The airline has asked for changes to pension and retirement benefit plans, as well as boosting the hours worked. The unease of workers with those changes was not helped by the CEO's pay of $4.5 million last year. The airline had reached an agreement with the pilots' union, but due to members' anger over the deal, a ratification vote was canceled and they returned to the negotiating table. The Canadian Auto Workers, which represents customer service agents said that they were not confident of reaching a settlement, and have scheduled a strike vote for May 16.