More than 10,000 Air Canada on -board agents will continue their strike despite orders for returning to the Canadian government, the Air Canada component of the Canadian Employees of Public Employees said on Sunday.
“For the moment, you are still on strike and blocked! Please remember that if we are locked, it is not obliged to be in contact with the employer, no responsibility to check the globe or your work email or to contact them for reallocation or reserve functions,” wrote the union in an update of the committee.
The decision to stay on strike challenges the decision of the Canadian Minister of Jobs to intervene using article 107 of the Canada Labor Code. On Saturday, the Minister of Jobs Patty Hajdu asked the Canadian Council for Labor Relations (CLRB) to order Air Canada and its employees to “resume and continue their operations and functions to guarantee industrial peace and protect the interests of Canada, Canadians and the economy”.
Air Canada had asked on Tuesday that the government is taking place using the provision, which allows the minister to ask an arbitrator to intervene in the dispute, the Canadian public employees union said on a statement on Friday.
Air Canada said on Sunday that the flights would reddemnate in a statement.
The members of the Air Canada component of the CUP voted 99.7% in favor of the strike last week and left around 1 hour HE on Saturday. Workers are looking for salary increases and paid remuneration for work when planes are anchored.
On Saturday, Wesley Lesosky, president of the Air Canada component of the CUPE, said that the Canadian government “violated our charter rights to take professional measures and give Air Canada exactly what they want – hours and hours of unpaid work of underpaid on -board agents, while the company attracts high -level profits and extraordinary compensation for managers.
Air Canada said it had offered a 38% increase in total remuneration over four years and an hourly increase from 12% to 16% the first year.
Hajdu denied that the Canadian government is anti-union, adding that it was clear Air Canada and that union workers were “dead end” and that “they need help to arbitrate the final elements”.
CNN Paula Newton has contributed to this report.
