{"id":66415,"date":"2025-08-13T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66415\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:56:09","slug":"air-canada-flight-attendants-issue-strike-notice-as-company-plans-lockout-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/66415\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Canada flight attendants issue strike notice, as company plans lockout – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The union representing Air Canada<\/a> flight attendants<\/a> says they\u2019ve served the company with a 72-hour strike notice, while advising members the airline has issued its own plan to lockout employees early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

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The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Air Canada component announced the move to members shortly after midnight Wednesday, saying the strike notice had been issued at 12:58 a.m. Eastern daylight time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis decision was not made lightly, but it is necessary,\u201d the union wrote in a bargaining update. \u201cWe are ready. We are strong and we will not back down.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wesley Lesosky, president of CUPE\u2019s Air Canada component, said in the strike notice to the company that it had ceased to engage in \u201cmeaningful dialogue\u201d on critical issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cRegrettably, the Company ceased to engage in meaningful dialogue on these critical issues, leaving us with no choice but to move forwardi n a manner that may impact the travel plans and long-anticipated vacations of the public,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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CUPE\u2019s notice comes hours after Air Canada said negotiations with the union had reached an \u201cimpasse.\u201d<\/p>\n

The airline said in a news release Tuesday that the union had submitted a counteroffer that seeks \u201cunsustainable\u201d and \u201cexorbitant\u201d increases to compensation, and also rejected an offer by the company to enter arbitration with a third party.<\/p>\n

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