(Montreal) Air Transat flight attendants in Montreal and Toronto finally accepted by 63% the recommendation of the mediators which had been submitted to them to renew their collective agreement.
It took three attempts to reach this settlement. And they thus become “the highest paid in the industry”, according to their union.
2,100 Air Transat flight attendants based at Montreal and Toronto airports, members of local sections of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), are targeted.
There was a first agreement in principle in mid-December, under the threat of a strike being called at the beginning of January, but this agreement was rejected by the members, without a strike being called.
The parties returned to the negotiating table at the beginning of January, then reached a second agreement in principle on January 7. This had once again been rejected by the members at general meetings.
This time, it was not on an agreement in principle that the 2,100 flight attendants were called upon to decide, but on the recommendation of the mediators. And they endorsed it.