Wage offer heads to mediation as union explains why work is still compensated around $15/hour

Air Canada flight attendants rejected a wage offer and sent the matter to mediation and will likely result in binding arbitration. Although the vote focused on wages alone, union leadership and members continue to raise concerns about how compensation applies to pre- and post-flight safety duties, which they say remain significantly underpaid.

The wage portion of the tentative agreement goes down by 99.1 per cent of the roughly 10,000 members of CUPE’s Air Canada Component on September 6. The vote does not affect other portions of the tentative agreement, which still proceed.

“The compensation that the members would get with the 12% increase would still fall below… a full-time entry-level minim

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