The airline announced late Wednesday that the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association had rescinded its strike notice, as both parties had "mutually agreed to return to the bargaining table," and that there was no need to cancel additional flights.
WestJet and its aircraft mechanics have agreed to continue bargaining, halting flight cancellations that had been underway.
The airline announced late Wednesday that the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association had rescinded its strike notice, as both parties had “mutually agreed to return to the bargaining table,” and that there was no need to cancel additional flights.
Earlier Wednesday, WestJet president Diederik Pen had said the company was waiting to hear from the Canadian Industrial Relations Board on whether it would direct the airline and the union representing aircraft maintenance engineers and technical operations workers to arbitration to come up with a collective agreement.
The company had cancelled 40 flights affecting 6,500 customers so that planes wouldn’t be stranded if the 670 AMFA members made good on their threat to strike Thursday evening.
The latest development comes following months of negotiation.
Pen had said their latest offer would make the aircraft maintenance engineers the highest paid in Canada, with a take-home pay increase of between 30 and 40 per cent in the first year of the proposed agreement.
The union said Monday it opposes WestJet’s request for arbitration because the process could undermine aircraft maintenance engineers’ bid for greater contract gains.
“If adopted by the Canada Industrial Relations Board, it would utterly frustrate the AMEs’ goal of reaching an industry-changing contract because arbitrators are generally driven by industry ‘norms’ — the same norms that have kept AMEs under the heel of management and industrial unions which favour the unskilled majority,” the negotiating committee claimed in a statement Monday.0
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