Toronto (AP) – Air Canada has suspended plans to restart operations on Sunday after the union, which represents 10,000 flying, said it would challenge the work matter. The strike already affects about 130,000 passengers per day during the peak summer travel season.
The Council of Industrial Relations in Canada ordered the airline to return to work by 2 pm on Sunday after the government intervened, and Air Canada said it was planning to resume flights on Sunday evening.
The largest airline in Canada now says it will resume flights on Monday evening. Air Canada said in a statement that the union “illegally directed its members to challenge the guidance of the Canadian Industrial Relations Council.”
“Our members are no longer to work,” said the head of the Canadian Federation of Public employees, Mark Hancock, outside the Pearson International Airport in Toronto. “We say no.”
Hancock torn a copy of the return to work outside the airport departure station, where the members of the Federation were displaying on Sunday morning. He said they will not return on Tuesday.
The flight attendants chanted, “Do not blame me, blame AC” outside Pearson.
“Like many Canadians, the minister is closely monitoring this situation. The Canadian Industrial Relations Council is an independent court.”
“The entire process was unfair,” said Hancock.
Less than 12 hours after workers’ departure from the job, they were attacked to prosecute 10,000 times to work, saying now that it is not the time to risk with the economy and note the unprecedented definitions imposed by the United States in Canada. He referred Hungry to stop work to the Canadian Industrial Relations Council.
The airline said that Cirb has extended the duration of the current collective agreement until the new ruling is determined by the arbitrator.
The closure of the largest airline in Canada on Saturday affects about 130,000 people per day. Air Canada operates about 700 flights per day.
Tourists Mel Dorston from southern England were trying to make the most of the tourist attractions in Canada. But she said that she has no way to continue her journey.
“We wanted to go to see Rocky, but we may not get there because of this,” Dorsston said. “We may have to return directly.”
James Hart and Verrani Verrani were visiting Toronto from Calgary, Alberta when they thought it would be a fun weekend. However, they finished paying 2600 Canadian dollars ($ 1,880) to avoid another airline on a later day after the flight of Canada.
“It is frustrating and somewhat struggling, but at the same time, I do not blame the flight attendants at all.” “What he asks is not unreasonable at all.”
The flight attendants went out of the job at about one o’clock in the morning on Saturday. Almost at the same time, Air Canada said it will start closing flights from airports.
The bitter contract of the contract escalated on Friday, as the Federation rejected a pre -request for Air Canada to enter into the government’s arbitration, which allows the third -party mediator to determine the conditions of a new contract.
Last year, the government forced the country’s main railways to arbitration with its labor veil as it stopped. The Union suits railway workers, saying that the government removes the influence of the Union in negotiations.
Hajdo confirmed that her liberal government is not hostile to the union, saying that it is clear that the two sides are on a dead end.
Travelers whose flights are affected will be qualified to request a full recovery on the airline website or mobile application, according to Air Canada.
The airline said it will also provide alternative travel options through Canadian and foreign airlines as possible. However, he has warned that he could not guarantee immediate reservation because flights on other airlines are already full “due to the peak of summer travel.”
Air Canada and CUPE were in about eight months, but they have not yet reached a temporary deal. The two sides said that they remain away from the issue of wages and the unpaid aircraft flight attendants when the planes are not in the air.
The last offer of the airline included an increase of 38 % in total compensation, including benefits and pensions, over a period of four years, which said, “It would have made our anti -aircraft the best compensation in Canada.”
But the union retreated, saying that the 8 % proposed increase in the first year did not go sufficiently due to inflation.