Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p><strong>Air Canada suspends restart plans after union defies return to work order</strong></p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a><br>August 17, 2025. 2:38 PM ET<br>By The <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AssociatedPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AssociatedPress</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AP</span></a> </p><blockquote><blockquote><p>The Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered airline staff back to work by 2 p.m. Sunday after the government intervened and Air Canada said it planned to resume flights Sunday evening.</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>'s largest <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/airline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>airline</span></a> now says it will resume flights Monday evening. <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/AirCanada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirCanada</span></a> said in a statement that the union "illegally directed its flight attendant members to defy a direction from the Canadian Industrial Relations Board."</p><p>"Our members are not going back to work," <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/CanadianUnionOfPublicEmployees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CanadianUnionOfPublicEmployees</span></a> national president Mark Hancock said outside Toronto's Pearson International Airport. "We are saying no."</p></blockquote></blockquote><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/08/17/nx-s1-5505416/air-canada-suspends-restart-plans" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/08/17/nx-s1-55054</span><span class="invisible">16/air-canada-suspends-restart-plans</span></a></p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/WorkersFightBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkersFightBack</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/SolidarityWithFlightAttendants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolidarityWithFlightAttendants</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workers</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>union</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strike</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a></p>