Air Canada Stewardessen voted against the agreement reached last month, but operations to continue

Toronto – About 10,000 stewardesses from Air Canada voted the employer’s wage offer that the Union and the airline agreed last month, but no strike is expected yet.

Stewardessen in Air Canada closed the votes on Saturday with a provisional new contract, with 99.1% that the wage offer of the airline crashes.

The airline says that the wage section will now be referred to mediation as previously agreed by both parties.

“Air Canada and Cupe have considered this potential result and agreed that if the provisional agreement was not ratified, the wage section would be referred to mediation and, if no agreement was reached at that stage, with arbitration,” the airline said in a statement.

“The parties also agreed that no disruption could be started, and therefore there will be no strike of lock-out, and flights will continue to work.”

The Air Canada component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees says that most conditions would still be part of a new collective agreement with the airline, with the exception of the wage issue.

Air Canada started the activities again on 19 August after reaching an agreement with the Union for 10,000 stewardesses to end a strike that disturbed the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of travelers. The strike had influenced around 130,000 travelers a day at the height of the summer travel season.