
23/08/2025
"The successful defiance of a hotly contested piece of the Canada Labour Code has boosted hope for worker rights in the country, labour advocates say.
The union and its thousands of striking Air Canada flight attendants refused to go back to work after the federal government invoked Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code.
As a result, Air Canada returned to the bargaining table, and overnight the two parties came to a tentative agreement that the 10,500 flight attendants in the union will soon be able to vote on.
"This is a big win for flight attendants that's going to force the federal government to re-evaluate how it intervenes in labour disputes going forward," said Larry Savage, a professor of labour studies at Brock University."
In refusing an order to go back to work after the federal government invoked a hotly contested provision of the Canada Labour Code, labour advocates say Air Canada's flight attendants sent a strong message about workers' rights in Canada.