CUPE enters arbitration on flight attendant wages with Air Canada
Businesswire·2026-01-19 21:23

Vancouver, BC--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Air Canada Component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has begun its first day of arbitration with Air Canada and Arbitrator Paula Knopf to settle wages after flight attendants voted over 99% to reject Air Canada's final wage offer in September 2025. "These hearings will provide our members an opportunity to hear the facts around what transpired in the negotiations spanning December 2024 to August 2025, and also a sense of what to expect from the process g ...