Air Canada Suspends Restart Plans After Flight Attendants Union Defies Return to Work Order

Toronto: Air Canada said that the union, representing 10,000 flight officials, would challenge the return to the business order, suspended its plans to restart operations on Sunday. The strike affected approximately 130,000 passengers a day during the most intense summer travel season.

The Canadian Industrial Relations Board, the government intervened and Air Canada plans to continue the flight on Sunday evening, he said.

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.”

The Federal Government did not immediately comment on the union who refused to return to work.

Hancock said that “the whole process is unfair ve and said that the union would challenge what it calls an contrary to the constitution.

“Air Canada really refused to negotiate with us and refused to negotiate with us because they knew that the government would come to their white horses and try to save the day,” he said.

The country’s largest airline said that the first flights will continue in the early hours of the day in the early hours of Sunday, but it will take a few days to return to normal operations. He said that some flights will be canceled within the next seven to 10 days until the program was stabilized.

12 hours after the workers left work, Federal Business Minister Patty Hajdu returned to 10,000 flight officials, now taking risks with the economy and the United States imposed on Canada, he said it was not time to draw attention to the unprecedented tariffs. 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 on Saturday affected approximately 130,000 people a day. Air Canada makes about 700 flights a day.

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, the government forced the country’s two major railways to fortify with the union during a study. The Railway Workers Union is filed a lawsuit and argues that the government has removed the leverages in the negotiations.

The Canadian Business Council government called for binding arbitration in this case. And the Canadian Chamber of Commerce welcomed the intervention.

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.