Air Canada pilots ratify new collective agreement. Here’s what it includes

Air Canada pilots who astir went connected onslaught past period person ratified a caller corporate statement with the airline, the pilots’ national announced Thursday.

The ratification, which the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) said successful a connection was approved by 67 per cent of members who voted, ensures pilots volition person a declaration until 2027 that includes “significant” wage increases and “improvements to prime of life.”

“This declaration is the largest labour statement successful Air Canada’s past and reflects contributions that our pilots bring to the occurrence of our airline,” Charlene Hudy, archetypal serviceman and seat of the Air Canada ALPA maestro enforcement council, said successful the statement.

“This statement helps reconstruct what Air Canada pilots person mislaid implicit the past 2 decades and creates a beardown instauration from which to physique on.”

The union, which represents much than 5,200 Air Canada pilots, had threatened to locomotion disconnected the occupation past period aft declaration talks stalled, which could person disrupted question plans for thousands of passengers.

A tentative statement was announced soon aft a midnight deadline erstwhile the hose oregon the national were owed to contented a 72-hour onslaught oregon lockout notice.

The presumption of the statement person not been publically shared, but according to a transcript of the enforcement summary viewed by Global News, pilots volition get an astir 41.7 per cent cumulative wage summation implicit 4 years.

The wage rise volition backdate to Sept. 30, 2023, with an mean 26 per cent increase, followed by 4 per cent increments each twelvemonth until 2026, according to the document.

ALPA has said the caller declaration volition make astir an further $1.9 cardinal of worth for Air Canada pilots implicit 4 years.

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In a statement, Air Canada said it welcomed the ratification.

“We are precise pleased this caller corporate statement has been approved by our aviator group,” president and CEO Michael Rousseau said. “The statement is mutually beneficial and it volition support our pilots the champion compensated successful Canada and supply the work-life equilibrium improvements they were seeking.”

In the lead-up to the onslaught deadline, the 2 sides said they remained acold isolated connected the contented of pay, which was cardinal successful the negotiations that had stretched for much than a year.

In mentation for the shutdown, Air Canada constricted definite types of cargo shipments, specified arsenic perishables, and adjusted immoderate craft flying schedules. No flights were cancelled, however.

The national authorities declined to intervene successful the labour dispute, contempt forcing an extremity to a obstruction shutdown the period before, though Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon had appealed to some the hose and the national to scope a woody by highlighting the economical and user impacts of a enactment stoppage.

A shutdown would person led to question disruptions for the 670 regular flights connected mean operated by Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge and the question of much than 110,000 passengers.

— with files from Global’s Saba Aziz