The Canadian government went on Saturday to end the strike by Air Canada flight attendant.
The strike forced Canada’s largest airline to cancel all its 700 daily flights and ground over 100,000 passengers at the peak of the summer journey.
Why has the Canadian government intervened in the strike?
The government has ordered an immediate end for the strike and to implement binding arbitration to the Air Canada and striking cabin crew for the Canada Industrial Relations Board.
The airline had requested the move, while the flight attendant, who had gone out of the job in the early hours of Saturday and demanded better salaries and conditions, was opposed.
Canadian Jobs Minister Patty Hazdu said at a press conference, “The talks broke. It is clear that the parties are not close to resolve some major issues that remain and they will need an intermediary.”
He said that Air Canada had said that it would take up to five days to resume the IT operation completely.
Hazdu said, “Canadians are finding themselves in a very difficult situation and the strike is rapidly affecting the Canadian economy,” Hajdu said, according to A, according to A. statement.
He explained that the government had to “work to preserve stability and supply chains in this unique and uncertain economic context”.
Hajdu said his arbitration order “was important to maintain industrial peace and protect, protect canadian people and promote situations to resolve the dispute.”
Flight in Canada, the second largest country in the world, is often the only Viamle option for long -distance travel.
Why did flight attendants go on strike?
In a social media post, just before the 01:00 ET (05:00 GMT), the union represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) confirmed the 72-hour freeze.
More than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants were participating in the strike on a pay dispute with the airline.
Currently, flight attendants are paid only when they are flying.
However, the union wants the flight attendants to be compensated for the time of spending on the ground between flight and as they help the passengers’ boards.
The airline and the union had been talking for months, but when the Sangh turned down the airline’s request to enter the mediation directed by the government, the conversation collapsed.
Air Canada, which is located in Montreal, said the strike, which would have affected the airline’s budget arm Canada Roose, which affects about 130,000 passengers per day.
Edited: Jennifer Camino Gonzalaz and Rana Taha
