Air Canada air carrier announced on Thursday that he began to suspend his flights due to the threat of a sales staff that could start on Saturday, at the top of the tourist season.
“All thefts will be suspended on Saturday morning” unless negotiations resume and end up by then, he continued. 500 flights could be canceled in total.
Air Canada, whose central office is in Montreal, transports around 130,000 passengers every day, including 25,000 Canadians who could be trapped abroad.
The company and the union that represent 10,000 agents in the plate (hosts, butlers …) said earlier this week that the negotiations to renew the employment contract were in a “dead end”.
Salary claims
The agents demand a salary capture and wish to be paid for the working hours worked in the field, especially when the approach, which is not the case at this time.
“We felt very bad for our passengers, we would like to return to the table to have a contract,” Natasha Stea, representative of the Union and herself a member of the on -board personnel reacted. “We just want them to listen to us and compensate us with our fair value,” he added.
Passengers assigned by this conflict can change their flight at no cost or get a complete refund, the airline said.
Canadian Employment Minister “urges” both parties to find an agreement
In the Social Network X, the Canadian Employment Minister Patty Hajdu, promised Thursday to want to provide “all the necessary resources” to help the parties reach an agreement.
Thursday’s press conference was interrupted by fifteen agents who went to Brandish in front of the Pancartes leaders, where you could read “unpaid work does not happen.”
Air Canada, the largest carrier in the country, provides non -scales for 180 cities around the world.
Source: BFM TV
