The Canadian Public Service Syndicate (SCFP) said that it would dispute the Order of the Canadian Industrial Relations Council to resume work before 2 p.m. Eastern time.
“Our members will not return to work,” said Mark Hancock, national president of the SCFP, in front of Toronto airport. “We say no.”
The federal government announced on Saturday that he ordered the airline and its on-board agents to go back to work, ending a strike and a lockout after less than 12 hours.
Mr. Hancock said that the union had received an opinion from the CIRB informing him of the imminent work of work on Saturday evening. He added that the union believed that “the whole process had been unfair”.
“Air Canada really refused to negotiate with us, and she refused to negotiate with us because she knew that this government would come to her aid and try to save the bet.”
– Mark Hancock, national president of the SCFP
Air Canada planned to resume its flights Sunday after the intervention of the federal government, which ordered enforceable arbitration.
The airline has announced that more than 700 Air Canada and Red Air Canada flights were canceled during the work stoppage. The strike left thousands of passengers blocked or unable to find a way to go to their destination.
Air Canada said on Sunday that the CCI had ordered the extension of the terms of the collective agreement between the union and the airline, which expired on March 31, until a new agreement was concluded.
Neither Air Canada nor members of the federal government immediately reacted to the union’s announcement.
The Canadian Public Service Syndicate, which represents more than 10,000 on -board agents, accused the Federal Minister of Employment, Patty Hajdu, of giving in to the requirements of Air Canada.
The SCFP says that he invites Air Canada to return to the negotiating table to conclude a fair agreement.
The union called for an “day of action” on Sunday, with demonstrations planned in front of Toronto airports, Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary.
Natasha Stea, president of the 4091 local section of the Montreal on -board agents, argued that workers supported the decision to challenge the order of return to work.
“I want to be very clear: Air Canada chooses to do this to our passengers, to our company, because we are the face of the company, and they try to have us responsibility for all of this and combine their friends from the government to bypass all our rights,” she said during a demonstration in front of Toronto airport.
She added that the workers had “enough to be mistreated and exploited”.
“I do not understand that a multimillionaire company refuses to pay a decent salary to its employees.
The SCFP had initially announced that its members would go to strike stakes after failing to conclude a last-minute agreement with the airline, while Canada lockped its agents about 30 minutes later due to the strike.
The union expressed that its main points of disagreement focused on wages, which were exceeded by inflation during the previous ten -year contract, as well as unpaid work when the planes are not in flight.
Air Canada had previously asked Ms. Hajdu to order the parties to start an enforceable arbitration process, a power granted to the Minister by article 107 of the Canadian Labor Code.
