Calm Air and union resume negotiations

Calm Air and its 35 flight attendants will resume contract negotiations in mid-December.

The contract talks began last week in Winnipeg, where the flight attendants negotiated for better wages, working conditions and improvements to their pension and benefit plans.

The airline serves Rankin Inlet, Baker Lake and Arviat, as well as several communities in Manitoba.

“We want a workplace that flight attendants will view as a career and not as a stepping stone to another job or another airline,” Carolyn Peters, president of Calm Air’s union, said in a Canadian Union of Public Employees press release.

Although Calm Air flies in Nunavut, most of its flight attendants live in Winnipeg.