Air Canada to resume flights after the forced arbitration of the government with hostesses

Air Canada said plan to resume flights on Sunday after The Canadian government intervenedforcing the airline and their surprising hostesses to work and arbitration.

The strike, which began on Saturday morning, varied to more than 100,000 travelers worldwide during the maximum summer trip season.

The largest airline in the country in North America said in a statement that the first flights will resume on Sunday night, but that it will spend several days before its operations return to normal. He said that some flights will be canceled for the next seven to 10 days until the schedule is stabilized.

Nathalie Garceau, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Union of Public Employees, told News themezone on Sunday that the demonstrations will continue for Canada, despite the declaration of the airline.

“We have not planned to cancel it,” he said in an email.

Less than 12 hours after the workers left work, the Minister of Federal Jobs, Patty Hajdu, ordered that the 10,000 flight attendees return to work, saying that now it is not time to take risks with the economy and point out the unprecedented tariffs that the United States has imposed on Canada. Hajdu sent the work unemployment to the Canada Industrial Relations Board.

The airline said Sunday that the Canada Industrial Relations Board has extended the deadline of the existing collective agreement until the referee determines a new one.

The closure of the largest airline in Canada at dawn on Saturday was affecting about 130,000 people per day. Air Canada operates around 700 flights per day.

According to the numbers of the Aviation Analytics Cirium supplier, Air Canada had canceled a total of 671 flights for Saturday afternoon, after 199 on Friday. And another 96 flights scheduled for Sunday were already suspended.

The bitter contract fight intensified on Friday when the union rejected Air Canada’s prior request to hold arbitration directed by the government, allowing a third party mediator to decide the terms of a new contract.

Flight attendees left work around 1 in the morning EDT on Saturday. Almost at the same time, Air Canada said it would begin to locate airport airports.

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.

The Canada Business Council had urged the Government to impose binding arbitration in this case as well. And the Canadian Chamber of Commerce welcomed the intervention.

Hajdu argued that his liberal government is not anti-union, saying that it is clear that the two parties are at a dead point.

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.

The airline said it would also offer alternative travel options through other Canadian and foreign airlines when possible. Even so, he warned that he could not guarantee immediate refund because flights in other airlines are already full “due to the summer travel peak.”

Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees have been in contract conversations for about eight months, but have not yet reached an tentative agreement.

Both parties have said that they remain very separate in the issue of payment and unpaid work hostesses when the 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.

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