Air Canada Reaches Deal With Flight Attendants’ Union To End Strike
TORONTO (AP) – Air Canada’s 10,000 flight officials union said that he had reached a temporary agreement to end a strike early on Tuesday.
Air Canada And the union continued to meet late on Monday For the first time since the strike started weekend. The strike affects approximately 130,000 passengers a day at the summit of the summer travel season.
The union said that the agreement would guarantee the fee for the members of the aircraft while the planes are on the ground and solve one of the important problems that maintain the strike.
Union, “Unpaid work is over. We have taken back our voice and strength,” he said. “When our rights were taken, we stood strong, we went back – and we made a temporary agreement that our members could vote.”
He followed the statement that the union would not return to work. The strike was declared illegal.
Previously, Air Canada said that after the union opposed a second working-return order, the cancellations of rolling will lie on Tuesday afternoon.
The Canadian Industrial Relations Board declared the strike illegally on Monday and gave the flight officials again. However, the union said it would challenge the directive. Union leaders also ignored a weekend order to resort to binding fortifications and end the strike in the afternoon.
The Board is an independent administrative court that interprets and implements Canada’s labor laws. The government ordered the board to intervene.
The workers ‘leaders objected to the Canadian government’s use of a law repeatedly that workers’ right to strike and forced them to arbitrate, a step taken by the government in recent years with workers in ports, railways and other places.
Air Canada makes about 700 flights a day. On Monday, the airline estimated that 500,000 customers will be affected by flight cancellations.
Aviation Analysis Company Cirium, Monday afternoon Air Canada’nın, since last Thursday, the carrier’s strike and lockout slowly began to suspend at least 1,219 internal flight and 1,339 international flights, he said.
After rejecting the airline’s request for arbitration to the state, a third -party mediator came out of work that allowed the conditions of a new contract.
Air Canada and Cupe have been involved in the contract meeting for nearly eight months, but when the planes are not in the air, payment and flight officials stay away from unpaid work.
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.
According to Air Canada, the passengers affected by flights will be suitable for requesting full refund on the airline’s website or mobile application.
