(Updated 2025 August 17, Sunday)
On Saturday, the Canadian government commissioned Air Canada and Flight satellites at the negotiating table and submitted a binding arbitration, allowing the flag carrier to renew the operations 12 hours after the flight satellites began to strike earlier that day.
Patty Hajdu, the minister of jobs and families, said the move was necessary to protect the Canadian economy because it talks about new tariffs. The Canadian Civil Servants Union, representing Air Canada’s 10,000 airline satellites, decided to forced arbitration, saying that it reduces negotiation of the power of the workers.
“The Liberal Government, headed by Mark Carney, has committed unchanged damage to the rights of the Charter and the employees, using Air Canada to crush the rights of crushed airline satellites to Air Canada,” the Union report said. Rennick. ‘The government’s decision to intervene in an extremely profitable employer, and most women’s workforce struggles with teeth and nails to use poverty, not just corporate.
Air Canada (TSX: AC) Sunday’s statement said he had postponed operations to Monday evening because Cupe ordered a flight attendant to abandon the Canadian Industrial Communications Board. About 240 flights were scheduled to operate initially in the afternoon and were canceled. Usually the carrier operates 700 flights a day but expect
Intervention, requested by Air Canada and business groups, is a facilitation for travelers and companies transporting goods to air. The Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian Federation of Independent Enterprises have previously expressed concerns that suspension of work would interfere with critical goods such as medicines, perishable food and machinery and hurt companies already affected by increasing trade tensions with the US.
Air Canada Cargo has implemented plans to maintain its cargo fleet, albeit with a modified schedule.
Cupe set a strike term on Saturday morning after eight months of negotiations on the contract, failed to conclude an agreement. Air Canada began grounding its fleet on Thursday.
“It is disappointing to conclude that today Air Canada and Cupe are a deadlock and still unable to resolve their dispute,” Hajdu said in a statement. “It has now become clear that this dispute will not be resolved at the table.
“The huge impact of the country’s work disruption on this scale is already feeling Canadians and visitors of our country. This impact will increase significantly due to the long -term dispute. This national labor disorder hinders passenger movement and critical cargo.
“Canadians rely on air trips to combine families, employees and communities with each other and the world. Despite the great government support, these parties could not resolve their differences in a timely manner. The government must operate in order to preserve stability and supply chains in this unique and obscure economic context,” she said.
Hajdu has instructed the Canadian Industrial Communications Board to help the sides solve their unpaid dispute problems through binding arbitration. The Board will take information on both sides and will essentially determine the terms of the new contract, which will have to comply with both sides. The statement has been left to prevent arbitration if they can reach a quick agreement.
“This solution will help make sure that hundreds of thousands of Canadians and our country visitors do not affect the canceled flights. In addition, critical goods, such as pharmaceutical and organ tissue, consignments, more than 40% of which move Air Canada, should continue to reach their locations,” Hajdu said.
The Canadian government has recently been involved in several labor disputes. December This ended with a month -long Canadian post office staff and told the Canadian Industrial Communications Board to resolve the financial position of the postal operator. The report mainly agreed with the Canada Post on structural and competitive challenges facing the volume of mail and packages decreases. This summer, Hajdu ordered members of the Canadian Postal Employees’ Union interviewed by the Board for the objections of its leaders, on the final proposal of the Canada Post Treaty. Email carriers on August 1 The biggest voted for the proposal.
Cupe says the Air Canada’s offer increases only 17% of wages in four years, which does not seem for the lost inflation under the current contract. Air Canada says her offer increases compensation by 38%, but the definition of compensation includes benefits and pensions.
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