Around 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants will be in legal status to strike in less than two weeks, but the airline says that there is sufficient runway to reach a deal that avoids grounding several flights.
The Air Canada component of the Canadian Association public employees says that the conversation with the airline is set to resume on Friday, whose members voted 99.7 percent in favor of the strike mandate.
Vote means that flight attendants can potentially walk away from the job with a notice of at least 72 hours on August 16 at 12:01 pm.
Although this passengers may already sweat about their summer vacation plans, Air Canada has stated that “it is firmly adequately to reach … avoid disrupting an agreement and plans of hundreds of thousands of passengers.”
Air Canadian spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick says “it is prematurely to speculate or discuss the possible contingencies” because the airline focuses on reaching an agreement with the union through negotiations.
The union is also optimistic. It can avoid a task stagnation, but it is said that Air Canada needs to “bring respect to the table” when its asking for high wages and unpaid labor.