Overview

• CUPE says the agreement guarantees pay for ground duties such as boarding, addressing the dispute’s central issue of unpaid work.
• Air Canada will resume operations gradually, with the airline warning full restoration could take a week or more and some cancellations expected for 7 to 10 days.
• The nearly four-day work stoppage affected hundreds of thousands of travelers and prompted the carrier to withdraw its quarterly and full-year guidance.
• Talks resumed late Monday with mediator William Kaplan after the Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered a return to work that the union initially defied.
• Final terms were not disclosed, but the union plans a ratification vote as the government probes unpaid work practices and the airline highlights a previously offered 38% total compensation increase.