US EditionAir Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order, remain on strike: union
- Air Canada flight attendants began a strike at Montreal airport on August 16, grounding about 940 flights and stranding over 100,000 passengers daily.
- The strike followed a 99.7% vote by CUPE members after failed negotiations over unpaid ground duties and insufficient compensation.
- The federal government intervened on Saturday, ordering binding arbitration and a back-to-work directive, but CUPE defied the order and kept striking.
- Air Canada plans to resume some flights Monday amid peak season capacity limits, while CUPE’s Hugh Pouliot said workers won’t return without a fair deal.
- The ongoing strike and cancellations raise concerns about travel disruptions, economic impact, and a persistent divide over fair pay and working conditions.
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Union leader says he would take jail over forced end to Air Canada strike
MONTREAL, Aug 18 (Reuters) - A leader of the union on strike against Air Canada AC.TO said on Monday he would risk jail time rather than allow cabin crews to be forced back to work by a federal labor board, raising the stakes in a battle that has disrupted flights for hundreds of thousands of t...
Air Canada flight attendants ordered back to work but remain on strike: What's next?
There is chaos in the skies — or more precisely, on the ground — as the labour dispute between Air Canada and its 10,000 flight attendants, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), drags on. On Saturday, the federal government ordered the striking attendants back to work and declared there would be binding arbitration between the two parties by the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB). But the union said no, a decision…
The cabin crew strike continues to paralyze Air Canada. The CUPE union opposed a state order to resume work on Monday.
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