Air Canada, union must maintain operations-minister

“As a negotiated agreement is unlikely in the near future and the collective bargaining process has broken down, the Minister of Labour has asked the CIRB to consider either imposing an agreement upon the parties or sending Air Canada and CUPE to binding arbitration,” Raitt’s office said in a statement.”Both the union and the employer must continue their normal work activities until the matter of maintenance of activities has been decided upon by the CIRB.”