Lets see how this plays out...Looks really bad on the Libs though.
Carney "created an unbelievable mess" with Air Canada return to work order
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Lets see how this plays out...Looks really bad on the Libs though.
SO you're backing the NDP and unions all of a sudden?
How's Carney going to solve this?
CUPE dude seems to be an alphabet souper so you would think Carney and the crew would bend over him and come to terms no?
Does anything ever look good for the liberals?
I fully support the flight attendants in their battle with corporate greed and liberal incompetence.
How dare you speak ill of our great subprime minister! Right, Richard?
It’ll almost certainly land in arbitration, and my bet is the arbitrator sides with the union. Frankly, they should be compensated for every hour they’ve worked. But let’s not kid ourselves an Air Canada strike right now would be a full-blown disaster, especially with the chaos the Orange Stain is already fueling through tariffs. Layering a shutdown of our national carrier on top of that? That’s a one-way ticket to economic turbulence nobody needs.
So when are you picking up your NDP card?
I think its very stupid for the Union to do this. I think they could have got a fair deal with the arbitrator.
Mandate Air Canada pay their workers fairly, no unpaid labour and inflation losses?
Pretty much all essential services strikes get ordered back to work and sent to arbitration. Having the national air carrier grounded would have been disastrous.
I am SMH at the thought that the imbecile Pee would have let the strike take place. He's incompetent, but surely not that fucking nuts!
The independent tribunal that administers Canada's labour laws has deemed the strike by Air Canada's some 10,000 flight attendants illegal and is ordering workers back to the skies.
In a decision released Monday morning, the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) said the defiance of a back-to-work order on Sunday by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is "unlawful."
The order calls on the union to "cease all activities that declare or authorize an unlawful strike of its members and to direct the members of the bargaining unit to resume the performance of their duties" by noon ET.
The directive, written by CIRB vice-chairperson Jennifer Webster, also calls on the flight attendants themselves to resume their duties "immediately."
The decision comes after a hearing on Sunday following a frazzled weekend for travellers.
Flight attendants walked off the job early Saturday morning, leading to hundreds of flight being grounded.
Less than 12 hours later after the strike and lockout took effect, Ottawa intervened.
Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu invoked a contentious section of the Canada Labour Code, asking the CIRB to send the two sides to binding arbitration and to order the airline and its flight attendants back to work in the meantime to "maintain or secure industrial peace."
Related video: Air Canada flight attendants defy back-to-work order (CBC)
Air Canada says it hopes service returns ASAP
Air Canada announced early Sunday that it planned to resume flights in the evening, but just hours later, the union representing more than 10,000 flight attendants said in a statement that its members would remain on strike, defying the back-to-work order handed down by the CIRB.
CUPE has accused the Liberal government of "rewarding Air Canada's refusal to negotiate fairly by giving them exactly what they wanted."
In a statement following the CIRB directive, Air Canada said it estimates 500,000 customers' flights have been cancelled as a result.
"Air Canada regrets this impact on its customers and is fully committed to returning to service as soon as possible," the airline said.
On Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said it's important that flight attendants are "compensated equitably at all times" and called for quick resolution.
"It was the judgment of both the union and the company that they were at an impasse. That's not my judgment, that's their judgment," Carney said. "So … we are in a situation where literally hundreds of thousands of Canadians and visitors to our countries are being disrupted by this action."
He suggested Hajdu will have more to say later in the day.
Air Canada and CUPE have been negotiating a new contract for flight attendants after the previous 10-year contract expired in March. CUPE says that wages, work rules and unpaid hours are the big issues in contention.
According to CUPE, many duties performed by flight attendants prior to boarding and after deplaning, including performing required safety checks and assisting passengers, go unpaid under the current pay structure.
Federal labour board deems Air Canada flight attendants' strike 'unlawful'
In a decision released Monday morning, the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) said the defiance of a back-to-work order on Sunday by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is "unlawful."
The order calls on the union to "cease all activities that declare or authorize an unlawful strike of its members and to direct the members of the bargaining unit to resume the performance of their duties" by noon ET.
The directive, written by CIRB vice-chairperson Jennifer Webster, also calls on the flight attendants themselves to resume their duties "immediately."
The decision comes after a hearing on Sunday following a frazzled weekend for travellers.
Flight attendants walked off the job early Saturday morning, leading to hundreds of flight being grounded.
Less than 12 hours later after the strike and lockout took effect, Ottawa intervened.
Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu invoked a contentious section of the Canada Labour Code, asking the CIRB to send the two sides to binding arbitration and to order the airline and its flight attendants back to work in the meantime to "maintain or secure industrial peace."
Related video: Air Canada flight attendants defy back-to-work order (CBC)Air Canada says it hopes service returns ASAP
Air Canada announced early Sunday that it planned to resume flights in the evening, but just hours later, the union representing more than 10,000 flight attendants said in a statement that its members would remain on strike, defying the back-to-work order handed down by the CIRB.
CUPE has accused the Liberal government of "rewarding Air Canada's refusal to negotiate fairly by giving them exactly what they wanted."
In a statement following the CIRB directive, Air Canada said it estimates 500,000 customers' flights have been cancelled as a result.
"Air Canada regrets this impact on its customers and is fully committed to returning to service as soon as possible," the airline said.
On Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney said it's important that flight attendants are "compensated equitably at all times" and called for quick resolution.
"It was the judgment of both the union and the company that they were at an impasse. That's not my judgment, that's their judgment," Carney said. "So … we are in a situation where literally hundreds of thousands of Canadians and visitors to our countries are being disrupted by this action."
He suggested Hajdu will have more to say later in the day.
Air Canada and CUPE have been negotiating a new contract for flight attendants after the previous 10-year contract expired in March. CUPE says that wages, work rules and unpaid hours are the big issues in contention.
According to CUPE, many duties performed by flight attendants prior to boarding and after deplaning, including performing required safety checks and assisting passengers, go unpaid under the current pay structure.
Federal labour board deems Air Canada flight attendants' strike 'unlawful'
They have a habit of forcing things on people.
There's always a market for SPs with flight attendant costumes...they already have that...they just need a leolist account now or sign up to the nearest agency...there's money to be had....
PM Carney was right, both sides admitted they were at an impasse, its time to bring in an arbitrator. If the arbitrator is deemed impartial by either side, there are still the courts. A strike does too much damage to the economy and the airline.
Defying two back to work orders...Things are heating up...Bad look for the Carney Libs.
The wheels on the Carney wagon are starting to fall off.
