MONTREAL - Air Transat (TSX:TRZ.A) has reached a tentative agreement with its flight attendants, averting the threat of a summer strike.
Airline president Nathalie Stringer issued a release Friday night that said the agreement would now go to the 1,500 flight attendants based in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver for a ratification vote.
The flight attendants are represented by CUPE and have been working without a contract since last November.
On April 21, the union asked the Ministry of Labour to appoint a conciliator to assist in the negotiations and eight days later a 60-day conciliation period began.
On June 16, the flight attendants overwhelmingly rejected a contract offer and voted 93 per cent in favour of giving the union a strike mandate. CUPE, however, did not set a strike deadline.
Stringer declined in her release to discuss terms of the tentative agreement.
