Air Canada and the Union representing 10,000 striking flight attendants continued on Monday evening for preliminary discussions and, according to the Union statement, described their first interviews in almost a week, Reuters reported.
The unusual parade of defiance continued the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) in its strike, although the Canadian Council for Industrial Relations, which according to Reuters reports, rules in Canadian industrial relations.
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The stand began on Saturday after negotiating a contract between Air Canada and the Union disintegrated, causing the widespread disturbance of travel plans for hundreds of thousands of passengers.
“The Union is currently at meetings with Air Canada, the largest carrier of the country, with the help of William Kaplan mediator in Toronto, Cupe said in his Facebook statement. The strike is still on and the conversations have just begun,” he said.
The Canadian Labor Minister Patty Hajda is pushing both parties to return to the negotiating table and achieve a collective agreement for workers as soon as possible.
Air Canada’s CEO Mike Rousseau on Monday defended the offer of an aerial company with 38% strengthening compensation to striking flight attendants, but said there was a large gap with the Union demand and did not offer a way to return to negotiations, Reuters reported.
A few hours later, Minister Hajda raised pressure on Air Canada and said she was starting a probe into a airline and that the negotiated agreement between workers and companies would create a “best business”.
The comments of Hajda and Rousseau followed the rejection of the Union to return to the work of the Federal Council for Work. This created a three -way distance between society, workers and government and increased bets in a dispute that disrupted flights for hundreds of thousands of passengers during the tourist season.
Unpaid work
The stewardess want higher wages and will be paid for the time spent on board and fulfill other duties on the ground.
Currently, they are not paid specifically for such work and Hajda in their comments on X, expressed by surprises by what she called the allegations of unpaid work in the airline, which has been in interviews for inclusion in and off for several months, which prominently included land salary requirements.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney asked for a resolution and said, “This event is disturbed by hundreds of thousands of Canadians and visitors to our country.”
The increase in domestic tourism helped to pose the economic impact of tariffs stored by the largest business partner of Canada, the United States.
Airline that is already facing reduced profits due to a decline in reservations linked to the US usually transmits around 130,000 passengers a day and is a member of Global Star Alliance Network.
(With Reuters inputs)
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