Air Canada Suspends Restart Plans After Flight Attendants Union Defies Return To Work Order
Toronto (AP) – Air Canada The union, representing 10,000 flight officials, said that the union will return to the work order after the plans to restart on Sunday. The strike affected approximately 130,000 passengers a day during the most intense summer travel season.
Canadian Industrial Relations Board I ordered the airline personnel to work until 14:00 on Sunday. The government intervened and said that Air Canada is planning to continue flights on Sunday evening.
Canada’s largest airline says it will continue to flight on Monday evening. Air Canada said in a statement that the Union directed illegal members of the Flight Officer from the Canadian Industrial Relations Board to challenge in one direction ”.
Mark Hancock, President of the National President of the Canadian Public Employees Association, said, “Our members do not return to work,” said Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. “We say no.”
Hancock tears a copy of the order of return to work outside the departure terminal of the airport, where union members were selected on Sunday morning. He said they wouldn’t come back on Tuesday.
Apart from Pearson, flight officials mentioned “blame me, blame AC”.
Federal Business Minister Patty Hajdu E -In a statement made by mail, like many Canadians, the minister is closely monitoring this situation. Canadian Industrial Relations Board is an independent court, ”he said.
Hancock said that “the whole process is unfair ve and said that the union would challenge what it calls an contrary to the constitution.
Hajdu was less than 12 hours after the workers left work, 10,000 flight officials Return to work, to say now, it’s not time to take risks with the economy and unprecedented tariffs The US imposed on Canada. Hajdu directed the working stop to the Canadian Industrial Relations Board.
The airline said that CIRB has expanded the duration of the current collective agreement until it was determined by the referee.
The closure of Canada’s largest airline at the beginning of Saturday was affected Approximately 130,000 people per day. Air Canada makes about 700 flights a day.
Tourist Mel Durston from Southern England was trying to make the best use of the trip in Canada. But he said it wasn’t a way to continue his journey.
“We wanted to see Rockies, but that’s why we might not reach there, Durs Durston said. “We may need to go back straight.”
James Hart and Zahara Virani were visiting Toronto from Calgary because they thought they would be a fun weekend. However, one day after the Air Canada flight was canceled, they paid $ 2,600 ($ 1.880) to fly with another airline.
Virani, “A little annoying and stressful, but at the same time I do not blame flight officials,” he said. “What they want is not unreasonable.”
Flight officials went out of work around EDT around 1 o’clock on Saturday. At the same time, Air Canada said he would start locking flight officials from the airports.
While the union returned Air Canada’s request for arbitration to the state, the painful contract struggle rose on Friday while rejecting the previous demand that enabled a third -party mediator to decide the conditions of a new contract.
Last year government Forced the country’s two major railways to fortifications With the union during a study stopping. The Railway Workers Union is filed a lawsuit and argues that the government has removed the leverages in the negotiations.
Hajdu said that the liberal government was not anti -union, and that the two sides were in a dead end.
According to Air Canada, the passengers affected by flights will be suitable for requesting full refund on the airline’s website or mobile application.
The airline said it would offer alternative travel options through other Canada and foreign airlines when possible. Nevertheless, the flights in other airlines have already warned that they cannot guarantee reservation immediately, as they are already full of “summer travel summit”.
Air Canada and Cupe have not yet reached a temporary agreement in the contract negotiations for nearly eight months. Both sides said that they were separated from payment and that the unpaid business flight officials did when the planes were not in the air.
The last offer of the airline included a 38% increase in total compensation, including benefits and pensions for four years.
However, the union pushed it back, the first year, the proposed 8% increase did not go further due to inflation, he returned.
