Government orders Air Canada to resume work! Flights cancel 500,000 people stranded at the airport indefinitely, Chinese spend $10,000 to grab tickets

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Air Canada’s general strike has finally evolved into what people are worried about.10,000 flight attendants went on strike, hundreds of flights were forced to be cancelled, 500,000 people were stranded, and Chinese spent nearly 10,000 yuan to buy air tickets to go home!

Even Carney came forward: the chaos must be ended quickly!

Get up early in the morning of August 17,More than 10,000 flight attendantsThe strike officially began. In just 48 hours, it has beenFlights of about 500,000 passengers were forced to be cancelled，The crowds of stranded passengers at the airport are surging.Everyone complained.

Because of this, the Canadian federal government quickly intervened.

Early this morning, the Canadian Labor Relations Commission (CIRB) formally ruled—This strike is illegal! Order employees to “resuming work immediately”!

This ruling means two things: one is that if the union continues to strike, it will face high fines and imprisonment; the other is that the striker is named and asked to resume work immediately, otherwise it may be considered illegal.

However, the union responded directly and hard:Resuming work with us? impossible!

National Chairman Mark Hancock said: “We are not going to return to work!If you want to arrest us, then arrest us! ”

Just as the words were finished, there was another240 flights were cancelled.

Although the CEO said he hopes that flights will resume tomorrow,But now Air Canada’s official ticket booking system shows“All flights are cancelled indefinitely”。

The union and Air Canada are in a stalemate, and the most direct impact is the poor passengers.

At Toronto Pearson Airport, Anna Francis, a mother with two children, looked at her flight information and collapsed on the spot. She originally planned to visit her relatives in Vancouver, but now she has been stranded for more than 36 hours and has not set off.

“We kept queuing, changing and queuing, and the children were so tired that they fell asleep on the floor.no one can tell us when we can leave. ”

And the other endVancouver International AirportPassengers lined up in long queues, anxiously waiting for the news of re-signing, but the strikers were not at the workstation, but instead held signs of “Unpaid work won’t fly”.

Another traveler, Mark Davidson, was preparing to fly from Montreal to Paris to attend an academic conference, but was forced to cancel the trip.

He smiled bitterly and said, “I understand the union’s demands, butIt’s almost disastrous for us ordinary travelers. ”

Now,“Flight cancellation wave” has spread to international routesAir Canada has to communicate with more than 120 partner airlines about resigning and try to transfer passengers to other airlines. But it is still the peak of summer tourism, and the seats of major airlines are also very tight.

Lila Rousseaux originally planned to return to Toronto from Zurich with his family yesterday, but received a notice of cancellation at 12:30 am.

“I spent an hour and a half on the phone and even proposed to take the train to Amsterdam before flying, or to the United States first and then drive back to Canada, but they were all rejected.”

A living in TorontoChinesePeixin ChenI had to swipe my credit card, and I spent almost 10,000 Canadian dollars more!

The Chinese originally wanted to take her parents, husband and two children to travel with her family. Yesterday, she should have flew to Seattle and then boarded an Alaska cruise to visit her uncle in San Francisco.

The trip was of great significance to the two elderly people, “We saved up for several years for this trip, my parents and his brother are getting older, and if we can’t go this year, we don’t know when their next meeting will be.”

As soon as the news that Air Canada was about to strike came out, they couldn’t eat well or sleep well, and prayed not to strike. As a result, last Thursday, Air Canada sent her an email saying that the flight was still likely to be cancelled.

In desperation, she had to change to another airline, but this time, six people went out together, and the change was 6 air tickets.She swiped her credit card and bought 6 one-way tickets, totaling about 9,500 Canadian dollars.。

This Air Canada strike is mainly focused on salary issues.

The union said that according to the current system, flight attendants still have a lot of work before and after the flight takes off, such as safety inspections, helping passengers to resettle, and handling emergencies, but these are not included in salary and are “institutional exploitation.”

They require that the ground working hours should be 100% hourly salary Calculate, but Air Canada says it only 50% hourly salaryPay and propose progressive salary increases in the coming years.

The two sides were in a stalemate and did not accept arbitration. The storm became increasingly turbulent, and even Prime Minister Carney came forward to express his opinion:Flight attendants should receive “fair reward” and call for “restore order as soon as possible”!

Air Canada said passengers who cancel flights can receive a full refund or change to other flights without paying a change fee.

However, according to the Canadian Air Traveler Protection Ordinance, if the delay or cancellation is caused by “uncontrolled factors of the airline” (such as labor disputes), the airline is not obliged to bear catering, hotel or additional transportation costs.

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