About 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants have voted down the employer’s wage provide that the union and airline agreed to final month however one other walkout just isn’t anticipated.
Flight attendants at Air Canada wrapped up voting Saturday on a tentative new contract, with 99.1% voting down the airline’s wage provide.
The airline says the wage portion will now be referred to mediation as beforehand agreed to by each side.
“Air Canada and CUPE contemplated this potential consequence and mutually agreed that if the tentative settlement was not ratified, the wage portion could be referred to mediation and, if no settlement was reached at that stage, to arbitration,” the airline mentioned in a press release.
“The events additionally agreed that no labor disruption could possibly be initiated, and due to this fact there shall be no strike or lock-out, and flights will proceed to function.”
The Air Canada element of the Canadian Union of Public Staff says most phrases would nonetheless kind a part of a brand new collective settlement with the airline, excluding the wage challenge.
Air Canada restarted operations on Aug. 19 after reaching an settlement with the union for 10,000 flight attendants to finish a strike that disrupted the journey plans of tons of of 1000’s of vacationers. The walkout impacted about 130,000 vacationers a day on the peak of the summer season journey season.
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