Air Canada on -board agents challenge the return to work, forcing the airline to delay the plans to take over the flights

Canada Industrial Relations Board has ordered the staff of airlines at work on Sunday at 2 p.m. after the government’s intervention and that Air Canada said it was planning to resume flights on Sunday evening.

The largest airline in Canada now indicates that it will resume flights on Monday evening. Air Canada said in a statement that the union “illegally ordered its on -board agents to challenge the Canadian Commission for Industrial Relations.”

“Our members do not return to work,” said national president of the Canadian Union of Public, Mark Hancock, outside the Pearson International Airport in Toronto. “We say no.”

Hancock tore a copy of the return to work order outside the airport departure terminal where the members of the union were baked on Sunday morning. He said they won’t come back on Tuesday.

The on -board agents sang “don’t blame me, blame ac” outside Pearson.

The federal government did not immediately comment on the union refusing to return to work.

Hancock said that “the whole process was unfair” and said the union would dispute what he called an unconstitutional order.

Less than 12 hours after workers left the post, the federal minister of jobs Patty Hajdu ordered the 10,000 return to work agents, saying that it was not the time to take risks with the economy and to note the unprecedented prices that the United States has imposed in Canada. Hajdu has returned work to the Canada Industrial Relations Council.

The airline said that the CIRB had extended the duration of the existing collective agreement until a new one was determined by the arbitrator.

The closure of the largest airline in Canada early Saturday had an impact on around 130,000 people a day. Air Canada operates around 700 flights per day.

Tourist Mel Durston in the south of England was trying to make the most of visits to Canada. But she said that she had no way to continue her trip.

“We wanted to go see the rocks, but we could not get there because of this,” said Durston. “We may have to go back directly.”

James Hart and Zahara Virani visited Toronto de Calgary, Alberta, for what they thought was a funny weekend. But they ended up paying $ 2,600 Canadian ($ 1,880) to fly with another airline a day later after the cancellation of their Air Canada flight.

“It’s a bit frustrating and stressful, but at the same time, I don’t blame on -board agents,” said Virani. “What they ask is not unreasonable.”

The on -board agents left the post around 1 a.m. on the HA on Saturday. Around the same time, Air Canada said that it would start to lock the airports on -board agents.

The fight against bitter contracts intensified on Friday while the union refused the previous request of Air Canada to conclude an arbitration led by the government, which allows a third -party mediator to decide on the terms of a new contract.

Last year, the government forced the country’s two large railways to arbitration with their union during a work stoppage. The union of rail workers is continuing, arguing that the Government removes the leverage of a union in the negotiations.

Hajdu argued that his liberal government is not anti-union, saying that it is clear that the two parties are at a dead end.

Passengers whose flights are assigned may request a full refund on the website or mobile application of the airline, according to Air Canada.

The airline said it would also offer alternative travel options through other Canadian and foreign airlines when possible. However, he warned that this could not guarantee immediate refund because thefts on other airlines are already complete “due to the peak in summer travel”.

Air Canada and CUP have been in contractual talks for about eight months, but they have not yet concluded a provisional agreement. The two parties said they are distant on the issue of remuneration and that unpaid on -the -board agents do it when the planes are not in the air.

The airline’s latest offer included a 38% increase in total remuneration, including benefits and pensions, over four years, which said: “would have made our best -profitable on -board agents in Canada”.

But the union postponed, saying that the 8% increase in the first year did not go far enough because of inflation.