{"id":125333,"date":"2025-09-06T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125333\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:36:10","slug":"air-canada-flight-attendants-vote-to-reject-airlines-wage-offer-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/125333\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada flight attendants vote to reject airline\u2019s wage offer &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/air-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Air Canada<\/a> flight attendants have voted overwhelmingly to reject their employer\u2019s wage offer, their union says.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Several days of <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11397074\/air-canada-flight-attendants-contract-vote-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">voting wrapped up at 3 p.m. ET on Saturday<\/a>, and when the votes were counted, 99.1 per cent of them had turned down the offer, according to the Canadian Union of Public Employees.<\/p>\n<p>The union said 99.4 per cent of membership took part in the vote.<\/p>\n<p>In a written statement, the airline says the wage portion will now be referred to mediation as previously agreed to by both sides.<\/p>\n<p>The tentative agreement, which was voted down, included a 12 per cent salary increase this year for most junior flight attendants and an eight per cent bump for more senior members, followed by smaller raises in subsequent years.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The statement from Air Canada said that since both parties had also previously agreed that, if the wage offer was rejected, \u201cno labour disruption could be initiated,\u201d there will be no strike or lockout, and flights will continue to operate.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756402221_230_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>A three-day strike by the 10,000-plus flight attendants ended on Aug. 19 with the help of a federal mediator after it disrupted thousands of customers\u2019 summer travel plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is impossible to ignore the corrosive role the federal government played in these negotiations,\u201d the union said in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than maintaining their neutrality, the federal government kept their thumb on the scale throughout the bargaining process and gave Air Canada the leverage they needed to suppress flight attendants\u2019 wages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 with files from The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Canada Post reports record quarterly loss'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GNMLUISSECOLABOURISSUESSTILL.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t6:06<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCanada Post reports record quarterly loss\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Air Canada 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