Air Canada cabin staff go on strike, grounding hundreds of flights
Montreal (Reuters) -Aiar Canada’s union flight officials walked early on Saturday morning with a movement that could disrupt travel plans for more than 100,000 passengers after contract negotiations with the largest carrier of the country.
Representing more than 10,000 Air Canada flight officials, the union confirmed the action in a social media broadcast in 0100 ET in the first strike of the cabin crew since 1985.
Participants are currently paid while the aircraft is moving, and unity, flights and trying to compensate for time to help the board of directors.
Montreal -based Air Canada, who is expected to respond quickly by locking the workers, said he expects 500 flights to be canceled by the end of Friday in the intensive summer travel season. He only expected about 100,000 people to be affected on Friday.
Flight officials are probably probably on Saturday to pile at the big Canadian airports where passengers are trying to provide new reservations at the beginning of the week, as carrier operations gradually injured.
24 -year -old passenger Freddy Ramos said on Friday at the largest airport in Canada at Toronto, his previous flight was canceled due to business dispute and that Air Canada had a reservation on a different destination.
“Probably 10 minutes before boarding, our door changed and then canceled, and then delayed and then canceled again,” he said.
Air Canada and low -cost affiliated organization Air Canada Rouge normally carries approximately 130,000 customers per day. Air Canada is also the foreign carrier with the highest flight to the USA.
The dispute created support from passengers on social media for flight officials, while the Canadian enterprises gathered from a trade dispute with the United States called the federal government to implement a binding arbitration that would end the strike on both sides.
Air Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority liberal government, representatives of the Canadian Public Employees Association representing the movement against the movement, he said.
The Canadian Labor Law gives Business Minister Patty Hajdu to ask the country to ask the country’s Industrial Relations Board to impose binding arbitration to the purpose of protecting the economy.
Hajdu called it over and over again to return to the table.
Union, Air Canada is currently unpaid but only 50% of the hourly rates offered to compensate for flight officials, he said.
