Air Canada’s flight attendees strike declared illegal by the Labor Board

The Canada Industrial Relations Board declared a strike of 10,000 Air Canada Auxiliary and Air Canada illegal Rouge on Monday and ordered them to return to work after ignoring an earlier order to return to work and submit to arbitration.

The strike in the largest airline in Canada entered its third day on Monday and is affecting some 130,000 travelers per day during the maximum summer travel season, and both parties remain very separate in payment and other problems. Air Canada suspended the plans to restart operations on Sunday after the union challenged an earlier order back to work.

“The members of the union negotiation unit are aimed at resume the performance of their duties immediately and refrain from participating in illegal strike activities,” said the Board of the Board of Industrial Relations of Canada, or CIRB, in a written decision.

The Board, an Independent Administrative Court that interprets and applies the labor laws of Canada, said that the union must provide written notice to all its members before Monday that must resume their duties.

It was not clear immediately what the appeal has the Board or the Government if the Union continues to reject.

“We are in a situation that literally hundreds of thousands of Canadians and visitors from our country are being interrupted by this action,” said Prime Minister Mark Carney. “I urge both parties to solve this as quickly as possible.”

Air Canada had canceled 540 flights from 10:45 am east time on Monday, according to FlightWare.com. Air Canada Rouge had 131 flight cancellations, showed flight monitoring and data provider.

Air Canada suspends restart plans

Air Canada suspended the plans to restart operations on Sunday after the union that represents 10,000 hostesses said it will challenge an order of return to work. The strike was already affecting about 130,000 travelers per day during the maximum summer trip season.

The Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered the airline staff to return to work before 2 pm after the government intervened and Air Canada said it planned to resume flights on Sunday night.

The largest airline in Canada now says it will resume flights on Monday night. Air Canada said in a statement that the union “illegally addressed its members of the flight attendant to defy an address of the Canadian Industrial Relations Board.”

“Our members will not return to work,” the president of the National Union of Public Employees of Canada, Mark Hancock, out of the Pearson International Airport in Toronto said Sunday on Sunday. “We are saying no.”

Carney said Monday that his job minister would have more to say later. Carney said it was disappointing that the conversations have not led to an agreement, and added that it is important that the hostesses be fairly compensated at all times.

The Work Board previously ordered the airline staff to work before 2 pm on Sunday and for the union to enter arbitration, after the government intervened. Air Canada then said he planned to resume flights on Sunday night. But when the workers denied, the airline said it would resume flights on Monday night. However, there were no signs that the Canadian Union of Public Employees, or CUPE, yield.

Air Canada operates around 700 flights per day.

The president of CUPE National, Mark Hancock, on Sunday had started a copy of the initial order back to work outside the Pearson International Airport of Toronto, and said the members would not return to work this week, to the cheers of the picket hostesses.

The flight attendees left work around 1 in the morning EDT on Saturday, after rejecting the request of the airline to hold arbitration directed by the government, which allows a third -party mediator to decide the terms of a new contract.

Air Canada and Cupe have been in contract conversations for approximately eight months, but remain very separate in the issue of payment and unpaid work made by flight attendees when airplanes are not in the air.

The last offer of the airline included a 38% increase in total compensation, including benefits and pensions, for four years, which said “would have made our hostesses the best compensated in Canada.”

But the union delayed, saying that the 8% increase proposed in the first year was not far enough due to inflation.

“The planned restart of Air Canada by Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge, which have been based on August 16 by CUPE’s work interruption, was avoided on August 17 by the illegal leadership strike activities of CUPE,” said Air Canada in a statement on Monday. “Air Canada regrets this impact on its customers and is totally committed to returning to the service as soon as possible.”

The airline now estimates that the flights of 500,000 clients have been canceled as a result. Passengers whose flights are affected will be eligible to request a complete refund on the website or the airline’s mobile application, according to Air Canada.

Last year, the Government forced the two main railways of the country to arbitration with its union during a work strike. The union for rail workers is demanding, arguing that the government is eliminating the influence of a union on negotiations.

Air Canada customers can find more information on the airline website: www.aircanada.com

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