Tentative Deal Reached - Details to follow later today.
Strike
The Union has just completed mediation with Air Canada/Air Canada Rouge.
This was done with our Chief Mediator William Kaplan.
The Strike has ended. We have a tentative agreement we will bring forward to you.
We are required to advise our membership that we must fully cooperate with resumption of operations.
Your Union worked from 19:00h last night to 04:23h this morning.
We will have zoom road shows and a ratification for this contract. Your right to vote on your wages was preserved and we will go over this on the zoom presentation.
Your Union will have more information on this, and want you to know we will go over the details fully.
In solidarity,
Your Bargaining Committee
We are now in the most critical stage of bargaining the moment where the most significant decisions are made and the core issues must be addressed without delay or distraction. The strength you’ve shown on the line and in the air gives us the leverage to hold firm. We will not waver until we secure an agreement that recognizes your value, your work, and your sacrifices.
Instead of continuing to negotiate, Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge have decided they no longer want to negotiate with your Union. They have given your union a “proposal” to walk away from the table .The Company wants us to agree to arbitration rather than to continue to bargain a new contract with your union. The Company has communicated we are too far apart.
To be explicitly clear, your Union, based on your overwhelming support, has put forward a proposal seeking cost of living enhancements each year, a catch up to where we should be at for 2025 and to ensure we are paid the best in Canada, and not by an unreasonable amount.
The Union has been pursuing your clear priority for 100% pay for all hours worked, however Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge have so far proposed to only recognize a portion of your vital safety contributions and only at 50%.
Air Canada has seen how determined and united flight attendants are to end unpaid work and win a real cost-of-living increase to wages.
Everyone knows that the best deals are made at the bargaining table, not handed down by an outside third party.
Why do they want arbitration?
First, arbitrators rely on precedent and the status quo to make their determinations. But Air Canada flight attendants are trying to break the status quo by ending the historic abuse of unpaid work in this industry. Air Canada wants an arbitrator to do their dirty work for them to keep the status quo intact.
Second, an arbitrator's determination would be final. Members would not get a chance to vote on this outcome. Air Canada wants to go to arbitration because they want to take away our members' democratic voice and close this deal to their liking, and not with the mutual consent of the membership.
Your union has declined the Company’s proposal to preserve an exploitative system and strip away your voice. We remain at the bargaining table, ready to negotiate the fair deal you deserve.
We have stood together, we have made our message clear now it’s time for Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge to respect workers and deliver the contract we’ve earned.
In solidarity,
Your Bargaining Committee
This powerful display of unity was built on the unprecedented strike mandate you delivered with 94.6% of members voting and 99.7% voting yes
Upcoming Events
Crew Breaks
On Board Rest
You are entitled to take your onboard crew rest, Please report to the Company and the union if you are unable to complete service and/ or schedule sufficient crew rest on long range flights. Please give us a schedule of how long the service took and and any further details on flight, such as equipment failures that prolonged service, turblence, passenger issues, medicals, crew complement, etc.
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LOU28 - CREW BREAKS
Flights scheduled or re-forecasted on day of departure of 7:01hrs-8:00hrs gate to gate
Cabin Crew may sleep for up to one (1) hour
Cabin Crew may sleep in last sold seats if available
If Crew Rest Unit (CRU) is available crew may only sleep in the CRU/OFAR
The service sequence may not be modified
Bunk kits will not be provisioned on aircraft with a CRU/OFAR
Flights scheduled or re-forecasted on day of departure of 8:01hrs-11:29hrs gate to gate
Cabin Crew may sleep for one (1) hour
Cabin Crew may sleep in last sold seats if available
If Crew Rest Unit (CRU) is available crew may only sleep in the CRU/OFAR
The service sequence may be modified to provide the crew their full break period
Bunk kits will be provisioned on aircraft with a CRU/OFAR for the flight(s) within the pairing that are 8:01hrs-11:29hrs
LOU 61
On A330 and A321XLR non-crew bunk equipped aircraft operating flights which have a
scheduled block to block flight time of greater than 7:30 hours but less than 11:30
hours, the Company will dedicate a bank of economy class seats for crew rest
purposes. The location of these seats will be determined by the Company.
Cabin Personnel may sleep in the bank of dedicated economy class seats for a
maximum of one (1) hour per crew member.
The use of these seats to sleep shall not in any way interfere with cabin service.
No more than two (2) Cabin Personnel may sleep at any one time. The Company shall
use best efforts to install a curtain for privacy which, if installed, must be used by Cabin
Personnel when the seats are in use. Signs or makeshift curtains are not permitted.
Letters of Understanding 27 and 28 shall not apply when dedicated crew rest seats
have been provided in accordance with the foregoing.
LOU 61
B14, LOU18, LOU22A, LOU22B, LOU 60.04.06 - CREW REST
Rest periods have been negotiated for long range flying and are as follows:
B14 two (2) hours of rest
– LOU18 a minimum of two and a half (2.5) hours of rest for a duty day up to 14:59hrs
LOU18 four (4) hours of rest for a duty day 15:00hrs or greater
– LOU22A four (4) hours of rest for a duty day up to 17:10hrs
LOU22A four and a half (4.5) hours for a duty day 17:11hrs or greater
– LOU22B five (5) hours of rest for a duty day up to 18:45hrs
– LOU22B five and a half (5.5) hours of rest for a duty day 18:46hrs or greater
The service specifications may be modified for crew to obtain their full contractual break/rest times. In such cases, the SD should submit an a report stating that the service sequence was modified so that the crew can obtain their contractual break/rest times.
Meal breaks are to be taken separately from the on board crew rest.
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The Company will designate the longe range flying article or LOU on a monthly basis before bidding closes. You can verify the designated article/LOU of each long range pairing in Aeronet:->Crew scheduling & planning ->Bidding tools and information ->Monthly duty summary or ->Monthly "whats new"
With the exception of (**) LOU28 flights of 7:01hrs-8:00hrs, the service specifications may need to be modified for crew to obtain their full contractual break/rest times. In such cases, the SD should submit an eOBR simply stating that the service sequence was modified so that the crew can obtain their contractual break/rest times. Ensure to share this OBR with your local union office. If there is a manager onboard, report this service modification to them.
If you are told anything different in respect to contractual crew rest by an Air Canada manager, please share this information with your local union.
For other types of flying, your break time is as follows from the Canada Labour Code.
Break
169.1 (1) Every employee is entitled to and shall be granted an unpaid break of at least 30 minutes during every period of five consecutive hours of work. If the employer requires the employee to be at their disposal during the break period, the employee must be paid for the break.
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Crew Bunk Kits
YYC
Bunk kits will be provisioned (outbound only) in YYC for flights to LHR
and bunk kits will be provisioned in LHR for flights to YYC
YVR
Bunk kits will be provisioned (outbound only) in YVR for flights to LHR
and bunk kits will be provisioned in LHR for flights to YVR
YYZ
Bunk kits will be provisioned in LHR for the LHR-BOM flights
Bunk kits will be provisioned in BOM for the BOM-LHR flights
