A few hours after the release of the strike of some 10,000 hostesses and Air Canada stewards, which has blocked hundreds of flights since Friday August 15, the federal government ordered the resumption of work on the name of the “Industrial Peace” and for “Protect the interests of Canada”. The Minister of Employment, Patty Hajdu, sparked the use of article 107 of the Canadian Labor Code to force a return to service and avoid a lasting blocking of traffic in the heart of summer. “It’s not time to take risks with the economy”she hammered at a press conference.
Concretely, it seizes the Canadian Council for Industrial Relations (CCRI), which will supervise the resumption of operations. The dispute is entrusted to an independent arbitrator. Its final decision will be binding for Air Canada as for the Canadian Public Service Syndicate (SCFP), which represents cabin staff.
Ms. Hajdu presents this path as “The most stable” To close a conflict to the heavy benefits for passengers and logistics chains. According to the minister, more than 40 % of the sending of critical goods – pharmaceutical products and human tissues, in particular – pass through Air Canada. According to the figures of the specialized company Cirium, quoted by the Associated Press agency, Air Canada canceled, because of the strike, 199 flights on Friday, 671 on Saturday and planned to suspend 96 flights on Sunday, August 17. This wave of cancellations assigned between 100,000 and 130,000 assigned passengers, some 25,000 of which are blocked abroad.
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