About 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants have voted down the employer’s wage supply that the union and airline agreed to final month however one other walkout shouldn’t be anticipated.
Flight attendants at Air Canada wrapped up voting Saturday on a tentative new contract, with 99.1% voting down the airline’s wage supply.
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 outcome and mutually agreed that if the tentative agreement was not ratified, the wage portion would be referred to mediation and, if no agreement was reached at that stage, to arbitration,” the airline stated in a press release.
“The parties also agreed that no labor disruption could be initiated, and therefore there will be no strike or lock-out, and flights will continue to operate.”
The Air Canada element of the Canadian Union of Public Workers says most phrases would nonetheless kind a part of a brand new collective settlement with the airline, aside from the wage concern.
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 lots of of hundreds of vacationers. The walkout impacted about 130,000 vacationers a day on the peak of the summer season journey season.
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