{"id":60237,"date":"2025-08-11T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60237\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:09:08","slug":"air-canada-flight-attendants-to-picket-at-four-canadian-airports-as-contract-negotiations-resume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60237\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada flight attendants to picket at four Canadian airports as contract negotiations resume"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees returned to the bargaining table on Friday after flight attendants approved a strike mandate last week.Carlos Osorio\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Air Canada AC-T<\/a> flight attendants plan to picket at four airports on Monday to highlight their pay demands in contract negotiations with Canada\u2019s largest airline, but its operations will not be affected, the union said.<\/p>\n

The Canadian Union of Public Employees said in a statement on Sunday that the demonstrations would take place at airports in Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary at 1 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n

Negotiators for the two sides returned to the bargaining table on Friday after flight attendants overwhelmingly approved a strike mandate<\/a> last week that could allow them to walk off the job as early as August 16.<\/p>\n

The union said the main issues include making sure the airline\u2019s 10,000 flight attendants get paid for all working hours, not just when planes are in motion, and improving \u201cpoverty wages that are no longer consistent with the economic reality of 2025.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe standard simply can\u2019t be maintained because it\u2019s no longer acceptable,\u201d says Wesley Lesosky, president of the union unit for Air Canada.<\/p>\n

Historically, airlines have paid cabin crew when planes are in motion. But in their latest contract negotiations, North American flight attendants have sought compensation for hours worked including tasks like boarding passengers and waiting before and between flights at the airport. <\/p>\n

CUPE said the demonstration on Monday is not a strike and will not affect the Air Canada\u2019s operations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees returned to the bargaining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,45,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-60237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}