The union that represents pilots at WestJet says it’s asking for federal help after months of failing to achieve a contract settlement with the airline.
The WestJet Master Executive Council, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA), says it has filed a request for conciliation help with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
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The federal Minister of Labour now has 15 days to nominate a conciliation officer. Once appointed, the officer would work with the events for 60 days to achieve an settlement.
If each events stay at an deadlock following this era, a 21-day cooling-off interval begins earlier than the events can think about different options, together with a strike or lockout.
ALPA, which represents roughly 1,800 pilots at WestJet and its low-cost subsidiary Swoop, says it has been negotiating unsuccessfully with Calgary-based WestJet since September.
The pilots’ first union contract, which expired on the finish of 2022, was the results of an arbitrated settlement reached in 2018. That settlement averted a threatened pilots’ strike, as WestJet pilots had voted in favour of job motion after contract talks fell aside.
