Air Canada : today provided the following comment in response to the announcement by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)

Published: 2025-05-14 13:45:05 ET AC.TO

Published on 05/14/2025 at 13:45

Air Canada today provided the following comment in response to the announcement by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents the airline's flight attendants, that it intends to seek Government of Canada assisted conciliation in its ongoing contract negotiations.

Air Canada has been working hard and in good faith to reach a new collective agreement with CUPE since the beginning of the year, prior to the expiry of the collective agreement with the company on March 31, 2025. Air Canada remains committed to achieving a fair, negotiated agreement with CUPE under the normal bargaining process set out under the Canada Labour Code. For this reason, customers can continue to book and travel with confidence on Air Canada.

Under the Labour Code, a party seeking conciliation must first file a notice seeking conciliation. There is then generally a period of up to 15 days before a conciliator is appointed, after which conciliated negotiations will continue, typically for a period of 60 days. If no agreement is reached, this is followed by a 21-day cooling-off period.

Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge employ a combined total of approximately 10,400 cabin crew members based at the airline's four largest hub airports in Canada: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary.

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