MONTREAL — The union representing pilots at Jazz Aviation claims that their employer and Air Canada have breached the Canada Labour Code, even as it ratified changes to their collective agreement.
On Monday, the Air Line Pilots Association filed a complaint with the Canada Industrial Relations Board arguing that both airlines violated the exclusivity deal between the two and effectively narrowed the pipeline of pilots from one carrier to the other.
In May, Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau announced a"bridging arrangement" with St. John's, N.L.-based company PAL Airlines to boost the number of regional flights in Eastern Canada. "The arrangement was that it was exclusivity. So when flying was assigned or when deals were struck with PAL, we're basically saying that that was done in contravention of previous agreements," he said in a telephone interview from Winnipeg.
Air Canada and Jazz also encroached on pilots' labour rights by"refusing to comply with contractual pilot 'flow' agreements," which see a certain number of pilots trickle from Jazz to Air Canada each year, according to a union statement.The Jazz pilots launched the unfair labour practice complaint the same day — Monday — that they ratified an amended collective agreement with their Chorus.
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