OTTAWA — Air Canada has agreed not to discipline flight attendants who continued to strike illegally on Monday as part of a tentative agreement that would increase base salaries immediately by at least eight per cent and offer pay for ground work, CUPE says.

During a Zoom call with members, leadership of the Air Canada component at the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) said the four-year tentative agreement struck with the airline after a tumultuous strike weekend was a mixed bag.

Whereas some of the gains made for flight attendants were “monumental,” other aspects of the deal such as wage increases were not what union representatives hoped for, they told hundreds of members during the Tuesday call attended by National Post.

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