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Air Canada grounds hundreds of flights as cabin crew set up picket lines
The Straits Times
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August 16, 2025
TORONTO – Air Canada cancelled hundreds of flights on Aug 16 as it began shutting down operations in response to a strike by flight attendants, triggering summer travel chaos for its 130,000 daily passengers. Canada’s largest airline, which flies...
Federal Minister issues back to work order in Air Canada dispute
CJLS - Massachusetts
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August 16, 2025
Air Canada flight attendants are being forced back to work. Minister of Jobs and Families Patty Hajdu issued a statement during a news conference Saturday afternoon. “I exercised my authorities under section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to direct...
Travellers stranded despite federal intervention into Air Canada labour strife
Lethbridge Herald
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August 16, 2025
By Canadian Press on August 16, 2025. Air travellers across the country continued dealing with hundreds of grounded planes on Saturday as the federal government announced it was ordering a binding arbitration in a labour strife between Air Canada...
Air Canada Strike Could Affect Caribbean Tourism And Cargo.
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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August 16, 2025
- Advertisement - Air Canada has suspended all flights after more than 10,000 cabin crew members began a strike, leaving around 130,000 passengers stranded each day. The walkout began just before 1 a.m. Eastern US Time on Saturday and affects...
Air Canada passengers left scrambling as strikes keep flights grounded
Global News
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August 16, 2025
Air travellers across the country continued dealing with hundreds of grounded planes on Saturday as the federal government announced it was ordering a binding arbirtration in a labour strife between Air Canada and its 10,000 flight attendants on...
No disruption for Kamloops Airport Saturday morning from Air Canada job action
Castanet Kamloops
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August 16, 2025
Photo: KTW file photo Baggage claim at YKA. No flights out of the Kamloops Airport have been impacted by the Air Canada flight attendant strike that began Friday evening. CUPE initiated a strike just before 10 p.m. Friday and in turn, Air Canada...
First-ever Yucatecan Vaquería to be celebrated in Toronto, Canada
The Yucatan Times
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August 16, 2025
9 The State Government, through the Institute for the Development of Mayan Culture (Indemaya), announced the First Cultural Twining between Yucatán and Canada, an event to be held on August 30 in Toronto as part of the “The Essence of My Land” (La...
Federal government orders Air Canada flight attendants back to work, imposes binding arbitration
Calgary Herald
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August 16, 2025
CUPE said the pay proposal would in fact represent a salary increase of 17.2 per cent over four years. The union said a junior attendant makes $1,952 a month before tax, and that Air Canada’s best first-year proposal is an eight per cent raise...
“This government is anti-union and anti-worker”: CUPE NS Denounces Use of Bill 107
Financial Post
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August 16, 2025
“Clearly, this government is anti-union and anti-worker,” said Alan Linkletter, CUPE Nova Scotia President. “Forcing workers back on the job instead of supporting free and fair collective negotiations directly contradictions workers’ rights that...
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu orders binding arbitration, resumption of operations to end Air Canada strike
CKPG News
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August 16, 2025
The move comes amid intense pressure from business groups to resolve the labour disruption that threatened an economy already reeling from the economic toll of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war. “With both parties declaring an impasse in...
Ottawa imposes binding arbitration, forcing Air Canada flight attendants back to work
North Shore News
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Less than 12 hours after it began, the federal government ordered Air Canada and its flight attendants into binding arbitration on Saturday, putting an abrupt end to the strike and lockout situation that left airplanes grounded and thousands of...
Flight attendants’ strike grounds Air Canada
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 16, 2025
Air Canada cancelled hundreds of flights Saturday as it began shutting down operations in response to a strike by flight attendants — triggering summer travel chaos for its 130,000 daily passengers. Canada’s largest airline, which flies directly...
Air Canada suspends flights, advises against airport visits
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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August 16, 2025
REUTERS / CARLOS OSORIO / FILE PHOTO Air Canada flight attendants, represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) hold a picket at one of four airports to highlight their pay demands in contract negotiations with Canada’s largest...
Air Canada: Gov't forces striking cabin crew back to work
Deutsche Welle
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August 16, 2025
The Canadian government on Saturday moved to end a strike by Air Canada flight attendants. The strike had forced Canada's largest airline to cancel all of its 700 daily flights and grounded over 100,000 passengers at the peak of the summer travel...
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu orders Air Canada and striking flight attendants back to work
Global News
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August 16, 2025
The federal government is intervening to resolve a labour dispute between Air Canada and the union representing the carrier’s 10,000 flight attendants. Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says she has ordered binding arbitration and for operations to...
Oakville woman honoured for breaking barriers in Canadian aviation
Burlington Today
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August 16, 2025
From being Air Canada’s first female ground school instructor to mentoring young women today, Denise Egglestone's journey through the skies has earned her a prestigious award Oakville resident Denise Egglestone has been named the recipient of the...
Minister Hajdu orders CIRB to arbitrate dispute between Air Canada, flight attendants
Travel Press
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August 16, 2025
Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario, Patty Hajdu has ordered the Canada Industrial Relations Board to arbitrate the dispute between Air Canada and its flight...
What to know as Air Canada grounds flights and attendants strike
BBC
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August 16, 2025
ShareSave As Air Canada's flight attendants began their strike Saturday, the airline said it has "suspended all operations" while the labour dispute unfolds. The attendants gave a 72-hour strike notice earlier this week, after contract talks...
Air Canada grounds hundreds of flights
Oman Observer
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August 16, 2025
TORONTO: Air Canada cancelled hundreds of flights on Saturday as it began shutting down operations in response to a strike by flight attendants — triggering summer travel chaos for its 130,000 daily passengers. Canada's largest airline, which...
Ottawa intervenes in Air Canada-union dispute, sending them to binding arbitration
CBC/Radio-Canada
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August 16, 2025
The federal government is intervening to resolve a labour dispute between Air Canada and the union representing its flight attendants. Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said she has invoked Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to allow binding...