Air Canada delays his plans to resume the services on Sunday after the 10,000 striking flight attendants of the Canadian government contradicted the return to work on the strike post lines.
The strike, which started on Saturday morning, stranded more than 100,000 travelers all over the world during the main summer travel time. The Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered the airlines’ employees again on Sunday after 2 p.m. The Canadian government intervened And Air Canada said it was planned to take the flights back on Sunday evening.
However, the Canadian Union of public employees who represents the flight attendants said that the demonstrations will continue across the country despite the airline’s explanation.
“We invite Air Canada back to the table to negotiate a fair deal instead of relying on the federal government to do its dirty work for you when negotiations are a bit difficult,” said the union. “We remain in the strike. We are calling for a fair, negotiated contract and compensating for all working hours.”
In a statement on Sunday afternoon, the airline said that it should resume flights on Monday evening.
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Less than 12 hours after the employees drained the job, Federal Job Minister Patty Hajdu ordered the 10,000 flight attendants back to work, and said that now it was not the time to take risks with the economy and to notice the unprecedented tariffs that the United States imposed on Canada. Hajdu referred the interruption to the Canada Industrial Relations Board.
The closure of the largest airline in Canada in early Saturday had around 130,000 people a day. Air Canada runs around 700 flights a day.
According to numbers from the Aviation Analytics provider Cirium, Air Canada had canceled a total of total 671 flights on Saturday afternoon, after 199 on Friday after 199. And another 96 flights planned for Sunday have already been suspended.
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The bitter contract stamping escalated on Friday, when the union’s previous application from Air Canada refused to the state -directed arbitration that enables a third party mediator to decide the conditions of a new contract.
The flight attendants left EDT on Saturday at 1 a.m. At about the same time, Air Canada said that the locking of flight attendants from airports would begin.
Last year, the government forced the country’s two large railways during a work interruption with their union with their union. The union for the railway workers sues and argues that the government deprives the leverage of a union in negotiations.
The Canada Council had asked the government to also impose binding arbitration proceedings in this case. And the Canadian Chamber of Commerce welcomed the intervention.
Hajdu claimed that her liberal government was not an anti-union, and it was clear that the two sides are in a dead end.
According to Air Canada, passengers whose flights are affected can request a complete refund on the airline’s website or mobile app.
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The airline said that if possible, it would also offer alternative travel options via other Canadian and foreign airlines. Nevertheless, it warned that it could not guarantee immediate rebookings, since flights with other airlines are already “due to the summer travel slip”.
Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public have been in contract talks for about eight months, but still have to have a preliminary deal.
Both sides have announced that they remain far apart in terms of payment and the unpaid flight attendants if airplanes are not in the air.
The most recent offer of the airline included an increase in total remuneration by 38%, including services and pensions, over four years that “our flight attendants would have compensated the best in Canada”.
But the union pushed back and said that the proposed increase of 8% in the first year did not go far enough due to inflation.
