What do you know as Air Canada flights and the attendants go on strike

As the Air Canadian flight attendant launched its strike on Saturday, the airline stated that it has “suspended all operations” while labor disputes arise.

After the contract negotiations, the attendant earlier this week gave notice of a 72 -hour strike.

His union said that the company was not addressing major issues such as wages and unpaid work, and the strike was effectively effective after midnight on Saturday.

Soon after, the carrier began to delay and cancel some flights. On Friday, it expects to scrap 500 flights, affecting 100,000 passengers.

With the strike in the impact, the airline announced that it would stop flights on its Air Canada and Air Canada Roose service.

Now passengers closes Canada’s largest airline to be closed during the height of the summer season, and the government is pleading with both sides to come on an agreement. What do you know here.

The airline, which operates in 64 countries and is a fleet of 259 aircraft, warned that if labor issues are not resolved, the “flying end” on Saturday would begin. Air Canada Express flights, which carry about 20% of the air Canadian daily customers, will not be affected.

Nevertheless, a shutdown can affect 130,000 daily customers, including 25,000 Canadians.

On receiving a strike notice, Air Canada issued its 72-hour lock-out notice and began to reduce the delays and cancellation operations in those three days.

Chief Operating Officer Mark Nasar stated that the airline system was complex and not “we can start or stop at a button push”.

Public employees (CUPE) of the Canadian Association, representing 10,000 air Canada hostesses, claimed that it bargains good faith with the airline for more than eight months.

The airline said it recently offered a 38% increase in total compensation to the flight attendant in four years, with a 25% increase in the first year.

But the Sangh stated that the proposal was “below inflation, below the market price, below the minimum wage” and the flight would leave the attendants unpaid for a few hours of work, including waiting at airports before flights or guiding the boarding process.

He said that wages did not put inflation with inflation, so that the salary increase of Air Canada was “under influence, a pay cut”.

Almost all the attendants – 99.7% – voted for strike earlier this month. Meanwhile, the company has asked the government to intervene.

Government representatives had already facilitated some negotiations, but the carrier went ahead and asked the Canadian job minister, Patty Hazdu, to refer to the case to force the arbitration.

Earlier this week, Air Canada proposed a third -party step to develop an agreement through “binding arbitration”, but the union rejected it.

The government then asked the parties to force the arbitration, which indicates recent government interventions in rail, ports and other negotiations.

In binding mediation, an independent third party determines the terms of a contract in an agreement that is legally applied.

The Sangh said in a statement on Friday that it had requested that Hajdu did not interfere and instead, “allows parties to reach a resolution through independent and fair dialogue without unfair intervention”.

For flight attendants, the only answer for both sides is that they come back to the table.

According to Reuters, to protect the economy, the Canadian Industrial Relations Board will ask the Board of Industrial Relations of Canada, stating that the board usually agrees to such requests, but has studied them for a few days thereafter.

There is also pressure from other parts of Canada. The Trade Board for the Toronto region has been called for a government intervention, while the province of Newfoundland and Labrador released a statement describing the impact of the strike as a “devastation” for the tourism industry during the summer season.

This is not clear.

When Air Canada’s pilots went on strike for 13 days in September 1998, more than 600 daily flights of all carriers were grounded, trapped passengers and cost airline C $ 133M ($ 96m; £ 71m) before reaching a conversation deal.

In recent years, the federal government has stepped into by blocking the attack during labor disputes by Air Canadian workers and implementing agreements.

The Sangh said that the implementation of arbitration would prevent the first strike by the carrier’s flight attendants since 1985.

Air Canada has said that it will inform the passengers if the scheduled departure time of the flight changes.

Until Saturday, Air Canada was “firmly advised” to not go to the airport “until they had tickets on other airlines.

The airline said that customers who are canceled the flights will be informed and would get a full return. The company has also arranged with other Canadian and foreign carriers to provide customers alternative travel options.

If this is a goal journey, the return flights are not automatically canceled in the position of passengers reaching the destination.

Those booking can be canceled without fees.