Friday noon the union of Air Canada on-board agents refused the proposal for enforceable arbitration in the conflict that is announced this weekend with the air carrier.
The union also requests that the federal government and the Minister of Employment, Patty Hajdu, also refuse everything, which would force Air Canada to return to the negotiation table.
The union accuses Air Canada of having anticipated the government’s intervention and of having decided to suspend constructive discussions … Unlike its legal obligation to negotiate in good faith.
Listen to the former Quebec director of the Canadian Public Service Syndicate (SCFP), Marc Ranger, approach what an enforceable arbitration is and if the union is really able to refuse it on Friday afternoon on the program of Catherine Beauchamp.
He explains that article 107 of the Canadian Labor Code allows federal intervention, but that the right of negotiation and strike, strengthened since the Saskatchewan judgment, complicates the taxation of an arbitration.