Air Canada will cancel all its flights from Saturday morning, if the air carrier does not reach an agreement with its on -board agents, management said at a press conference in Toronto.
Air Canada’s manager of Air Canada operations said the air carrier should gradually cancel certain flights before stopping its operations completely on Saturday morning. The full stop could affect nearly 100,000 passengers.
This concerned a dozen flights scheduled for Thursday, as well as 500 flights on Friday.
Faced with travelers’ concerns, Air Canada’s Human Resources Chef, Arielle Meloul-Wechsler, has returned responsibility for disturbances to the Canadian Public Service Syndicate (SCFP). She said she was “disappointed” from the strike vote.
The SCFP plans to trigger a strike on Saturday, shortly before 1 a.m. The air carrier will impose a lockout.
The company specifies that customers whose flights are canceled will be entitled to a full refund. The lucky ones will be offered a place on a flight from another company.
The points in dispute relate in particular to the salary of on -board agents and unpaid work when the planes are not in flight.
Mediation and enforceable arbitration
Believing that it “does not seem that a resolution is possible in the near future”, the airline asked Ottawa to order enforceable arbitration.
Thursday morning, the Federal Minister of Employment, Patty Hajdu, once again called the two parties to stay at the negotiation table until an agreement is concluded.
She took note of the fact that the employers’ party has filed a request for negotiations to move to enforceable arbitration and said they asked the union to respond to the employer’s request.
Earlier this week, the SCFP had dismissed the possibility of accepting enforceable arbitration, believing that it was an attempt by the employer to deprive the union members of their rights.
In her declaration, Minister Hajdu reiterated that federal mediators are willing and able to work with the parties “24 hours a day until they reach an agreement”.
“I urge the two parties to put their disputes aside, to return to the negotiating table and to conclude an agreement now for the many travelers who count on you,” she decided.
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