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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 many of the service’s 700 each 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 mentioned 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 Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Unionized Air Canada flight attendants shaped picket strains exterior main airports, demanding higher pay and dealing situations.
CUPE, which represents greater than 10,000 flight attendants, mentioned on Saturday its members are paid solely when an plane is shifting — 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 regulation permits the federal government to ask the CIRB to impose binding arbitration to guard the economic system.
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Pilots present their assist for Air Canada flight attendants collaborating in a normal strike at Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau Worldwide Airport on August 16, 2025, in Montreal, Canada. (Andrej Ivanov/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
The federal government can now search a court docket order to implement compliance or request an expedited listening to.
The labor union is demanding full compensation for this unpaid floor time.
CUPE offered an announcement to FOX Enterprise on Sunday relating to its choice to stay on strike.
“We will likely 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 compelled to do hours of unpaid work by their employer each time they arrive to work,” the union mentioned. “We invite Air Canada again to the desk to barter a good deal, relatively than counting on the federal authorities to do their soiled work for them when bargaining will get a little bit 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 Pictures / Getty Pictures)
Wesley Lesosky, president of the Air Canada part of CUPE, mentioned in a press convention in Toronto that, as of Saturday morning, there have been no bargaining classes 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 simply accept it anymore,” he mentioned.
Air Canada mentioned its package deal raises general compensation by 38% over 4 years, whereas the union stresses that the corporate is simply 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 succeed in 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 mentioned its supply would make Air Canada flight attendants the most effective 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 mentioned.
Air Canada mentioned hourly charges would rise as excessive as 94 Canadian {dollars} ($69 U.S.) within the first 12 months, reflecting a 12% to 16% improve that features an 8% enhance to base wages and one other 4% to eight% by a brand new floor pay system. By 2027, it mentioned, senior flight attendants would earn a median of 87,000 Canadian {dollars} ($63,000 U.S.) a 12 months, with about 20% making 90,000 Canadian {dollars} ($65,700 U.S.) or extra. Air Canada mentioned 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 mentioned. “The service may also supply to rebook prospects on different carriers, though capability is at the moment restricted as a result of peak summer season journey season.”
FOX Enterprise’ Michael Dorgan and Reuters contributed to this report.
