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Air Canada flight attendants remained on strike Sunday, defying a authorities labor board’s order to return to work and forcing Canada’s largest airline to delay its restart plans.
The walkout, which started shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday, grounded a lot of the provider’s 700 every day flights and stranded greater than 100,000 passengers.
The airline had hoped to restart service Sunday night, however scrapped these plans after the Canadian Union of Public Workers (CUPE) urged its members to defy a Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) order to return to work.
“Roughly 240 flights scheduled to function starting this afternoon have now been canceled,” the airline stated in a press launch on Sunday.
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Air Canada flight attendants and supporters throughout a strike at Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (Arlyn McAdorey/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
Unionized Air Canada flight attendants shaped picket strains exterior main airports, demanding higher pay and dealing circumstances.
CUPE, which represents greater than 10,000 flight attendants, stated on Saturday its members are paid solely when an plane is transferring — from pushback to arrival — and obtain no pay for boarding, deplaning or floor delays.
Reuters reported that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s authorities intervened Saturday, asking the CIRB to impose binding arbitration. The board issued the order, which the union opposed.
Canadian labor legislation permits the federal government to ask the CIRB to impose binding arbitration to guard the economic system.
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Pilots present their help for Air Canada flight attendants taking part in a normal strike at Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau Worldwide Airport on August 16, 2025, in Montreal, Canada. (Andrej Ivanov/Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
The federal government can now search a courtroom order to implement compliance or request an expedited listening to.
The labor union is demanding full compensation for this unpaid floor time.
CUPE supplied a press release to FOX Enterprise on Sunday concerning its choice to stay on strike.
“We will probably be difficult this blatantly unconstitutional order that violates the Constitution rights of 10,517 flight attendants, 70% of whom are girls, and 100% of whom are pressured to do hours of unpaid work by their employer each time they arrive to work,” the union stated. “We invite Air Canada again to the desk to barter a good deal, reasonably than counting on the federal authorities to do their soiled work for them when bargaining will get a bit of bit robust.”
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Air Canada planes at Toronto Pearson Worldwide Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (Arlyn McAdorey/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
Wesley Lesosky, president of the Air Canada element of CUPE, stated in a press convention in Toronto that, as of Saturday morning, there have been no bargaining periods scheduled between the 2 sides, which have held on-and-off negotiations for months.
“We’re right here as a result of Air Canada forces us to work without spending a dime for hours and hours every single day, and we’re right here as a result of we’re not going to just accept it anymore,” he stated.
Air Canada stated its bundle raises general compensation by 38% over 4 years, whereas the union stresses that the corporate is barely providing 50% pay for floor duties like boarding and deplaning, not full hourly wages.
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Folks maintain placards as a strike begins after the union representing Air Canada’s 10,000 flight attendants failed to achieve an settlement with the airline, at Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau Worldwide Airport in Dorval, Quebec, Canada on August 16, (REUTERS/Peter McCabe / Reuters Photographs)
The corporate stated its supply would make Air Canada flight attendants the perfect compensated in Canada. Already, cabin crew earn as much as $17 extra per hour than their counterparts on the firm’s largest home competitor, it stated.
Air Canada stated hourly charges would rise as excessive as 94 Canadian {dollars} ($69 U.S.) within the first yr, reflecting a 12% to 16% enhance that features an 8% increase to base wages and one other 4% to eight% via a brand new floor pay formulation. By 2027, it stated, senior flight attendants would earn a mean of 87,000 Canadian {dollars} ($63,000 U.S.) a yr, with about 20% making 90,000 Canadian {dollars} ($65,700 U.S.) or extra. Air Canada stated on Saturday that it “stays engaged and dedicated to barter a renewal to its collective settlement with CUPE.”
The airline is strongly advising affected prospects to not go to the airport except they’ve a confirmed ticket on an airline aside from Air Canada or Air Canada Rouge.
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“Air Canada will supply these with canceled flights choices, together with acquiring a full refund or receiving a credit score for future journey,” Air Canada stated. “The provider will even supply to rebook prospects on different carriers, though capability is presently restricted because of the peak summer time journey season.”
FOX Enterprise’ Michael Dorgan and Reuters contributed to this report.
