Air Canada flight attendants reject wage offer

Canada’s biggest aerial bearer offered a 12 percent wage hike for those with 5 years connected the occupation oregon less, and 8 percent for those with much than six.

Air Canada’s formation attendants and its determination portion person voted against ratifying the carrier’s wage offer.

The national announced the determination connected Friday.

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Many of the formation attendants astatine Canada’s largest bearer were dissatisfied with wage increases successful a tentative statement that they had arrived astatine past period and that had helped extremity a crippling onslaught astatine the time.

Air Canada had projected a 12 percent first-year wage hike for Rouge formation attendants and mainline unit with 5 years of work oregon less, and an 8 percent summation for those with six years oregon more, the national said.

The hostility between the Montreal-based carrier and its formation attendants’ national comes lone weeks aft its astir 10,500 formation attendants deed the picket enactment for 3 days. Disruptions led to cancellations impacting astir fractional a cardinal customers flying connected Air Canada.

It was the archetypal clip immoderate national had defied a long-obscure “industrial peace” clause successful Canada’s 40-year-old labour codification — 1 that has been utilized to extremity strikes a fractional twelve times successful conscionable the past twelvemonth and unit workers backmost to their jobs. Several formation attendants had been unhappy some with the contented of the connection and the mode it was achieved nether “duress”, Al Jazeera reported previously.