Air Canada, Air flight attendants resuming conversations with the strike continued for days

Toronto Air Canada and Al -Ittihad, which represents 10,000 aviation lectures, resumed talks late Monday for the first time since a strike by flight attendants It started during the weekend. Exit, which affects about 130,000 passengers per day at the height of the summer travel season.

This was the first time that the two sides had spoken from early Saturday or late on Friday. In an update to its members, the federation said that the airline reached the communication and the meeting occurred with the help of a broker in Toronto.

After the federation announced that the flight attendants will not return to work despite the strike, now on its third day, It was announced illegal.

Earlier, Air Canada said that the cancellation operations now extended until Tuesday afternoon after the federation challenged a second order to return to work. The country’s largest airline had said earlier that the operations would resume on Monday evening, but the president of the federation said this would not happen.

“We will not return to the sky,” said Mark Hancock, the National Federation of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, or the Cup, which also represents some non -public sectors.

The Canadian Industrial Relations Council announced that the strike is illegal on Monday and the flight attendants ordered again at work. But Al -Ittihad said that it would challenge the guidance. Union leaders also ignored an order on the weekend to bring it to the binding arbitration and end the strike on Sunday afternoon.

The Board of Directors, an independent administrative court that explains and implementing labor laws in Canada, said that the union needs to make written notice to all its members by the two by the two that they must resume their duties.

When asked on Monday about the repercussions that the union was ready to confront it to challenge the return of the Labor Council to business orders, Hancock said: “There is no limit. We will remain strong.”

Hancock said: “If that means that people like me go to prison, then it is that. “We are looking for a solution here. Our members want a solution here, but the solution must be found on the bargaining table.”

It was not immediately clear to resort to the council or the government if the union continued to refuse it.

Workers ’leaders object to the repeated use of the Canadian government of a law that cuts the right of workers to strike and force them to arbitration, a move by the government in recent years with workers in ports, railways and other places.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said: “We are in a situation in which hundreds of thousands of Canadians and our country’s visitors are literally disrupted from this procedure.” “I urge both sides to solve this as soon as possible.”

Carney stressed that it is important that the flight attendants be compensated fairly at all times.

The Minister of Jobs, Patty Hajwad, said that the federal government launches an investigation into the union’s allegations that aviation flights do not pay for their work while the aircraft is on the ground, and is considering providing legislation to address this issue.

Air Canada operates about 700 flights per day. The airline estimated on Monday that 500,000 customers will be affected by the cancellation of flying.

Cirium Analysis Company said that from Monday noon, Air Canada has canceled at least 1219 local flights and 1339 international flights since last Thursday, when the carrier began Her operations gradually suspended before a strike and lock.

Air Canada CEO, Michael Rousseau, said he is still looking for a quick solution.

“It is clear that we hope we can go tomorrow, but we will make this decision later today,” said Rousseau at Bnn Bloomberg. Soon after the union announced that it will continue to strike: “It is clear that we hope we can go tomorrow, but we will make this decision later today,” said Rousseau at Bnn Bloomberg.

They were cut off by Robert Barzimovsky, a resident of Montreal, in Prague with his wife and two children since Saturday, when Air Canada canceled her trip to the homeland from what was supposed to be a two -week vacation.

BRZYMOWOWSKI, who consults companies about energy -saving practices, said that it is scheduled to start a new job on Monday but lost in the contract because he is no longer to Montreal in time.

“I was not planning to lose my job during a leave,” he said.

Barzimovsky, who was afflicted with what he described as a lack of communication from the airline, said that he went to the airport in Prague on Monday morning and was able to obtain the airline to book it on a new flight on August 25 – more than a week after their original flight.

He said that his children will also miss the first day of the new school year, and his wife will not receive the salaries of the week because she used the last time for the year for this trip.

“I, on the one hand, I will not fly Canada again,” said Barzimovsky. “I will take a boat if you have to do so.”

The flight attendants came out of work early on Saturday after the airline’s request to enter the government’s arbitration, which allows a third -party mediator to determine the conditions of a new contract.

Air Canada and CUPE were in contract talks for about eight months, but they are still far from the issue of payment and unpaid work by flight attendants when the planes were not in the air.

The last offer of the airline included an increase of 38 % in total compensation, including benefits and pensions, over a period of four years he said, “It would have made our airline flights the best compensation in Canada.”

But the union retreated, saying that the 8 % proposed increase in the first year did not go sufficiently due to inflation.

Travelers whose flights are affected will be qualified to request a full recovery on the airline website or mobile application, according to Air Canada.