Even the Canadian government’s back-to-work order couldn’t to bring flight attendants back to work

 

Over 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants have shrugged off Canadian government back-to-work orders, keeping the strike going on, the Air Canada Component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) said Sunday.

“Right now, you launch a strike and are still locked out! Please, keep in mind that you don’t owe an obligation to remain in contact with the employer while you’re shut out. You don’t take any sort of responsibility, neither to check Globe nor your email. You shouldn’t contact them for reassignment or reserve duties,” the union wrote in committee updates.

The decision of the Canadian Jobs Minister to weigh in on the strike while considering the use of Section 107 of the Canada Labor Code was flouted by the flight attendants’ pledge to keep the strike going on. The worst-case scenario looming around Air Canada prompted Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu to suggest the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) direct Air Canada’s administration and its employees not to suspend and discontinue their operations and duties, as it’d devastate industrial peace and leave Canada, Canadians, and the economy unprotected.

On Saturday, flight attendants received an explicit directive to “restart their duties and keep on working” by 2 p.m. ET Sunday, the Air Canada component of CUPE said in a statement. The CUPE said that it can’t depend on the federal government to exacerbate the situation for them when negotiation screws up. It called Air Canada back to the negotiating table to bargain.

Assessing the severely exacerbated situation, Air Canada had called for the government to weigh in using the provision that enables a minister to authorize an arbitrator to intercede in the quarrel, according to the CUPE Friday statement.

Air Canada accused the CUPE directive, issued to its flight attendants to shrug off the return-to-work order, of causing the cancellation of its 240 flights operating on Sunday afternoon, according to the statement.

The customers, who went through a flight cancellation, will receive a direct notification by Air Canada and are warned to avoid visiting the airport unless they validated their flights on other airlines. The flights will not resume until Monday evening, Air Canada said in a statement.

The Air Canada component of CUPE’s members favorably cast the votes to immediately launch a strike against Air Canada, and they came out at 1 a.m. ET on Saturday. The workers’ feasible demands include the wage hikes and the paid compensation for work when planes stay on the ground.

On Saturday, the president of the Air Canada component of CUPE, Wesley Lesosky, slammed the Canadian government, accusing it of not complying with their charter rights and halting them from taking job action. It rewarded Air Canada with hours and hours of unpaid labor from flight attendant members who are paid too little, he said, while the company engulfed in plenty of profits with extraordinary executive compensation.

Flight attendants will get their hands on a 38% increase in total compensation over four years with an hourly 12% to 16% surge in the first year, Air Canada stated.

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