Lily Azli is excited to compete in the World Arc Arco World Championship in Winnipeg this week, but she is also disappointed that the central members of her Australian team do not shoot arrows next to her in the middle of a strike that affects the air travelers who go to or from Canada.
Around 570 athletes from 63 countries were scheduled to get to Winnipeg for the World Championship of Young Archray on the same weekend, Air Canada’s strike hit around 750 flights in Canada.
“You know how many hours they have put in training and how many small and large sacrifices have done to be here,” said Azli, 18. “Knowing that they will not be here at all, your heart breaks.”
Five of Azli teammates will not reach the competition due to cancellations related to the ongoing strike of Air Canada.
Flight attendees remained in the picket line at Winnipeg Richardson International Airport on Monday.
The president of CUPE Manitoba, Gina McKay, remains inflexible in which the picket will continue, despite the fact that the Canada Industrial Relations Board that decides on Monday that the continuous challenge of an order of return to work is illegal.
“It doesn’t matter what, we have constitutional rights to attack and that is what we are doing here today,” said Winnipeg airport on Monday.
“We are working and fighting for fair wages and we are fighting for a fair contract. And that is what we are doing is that we are maintaining the line.”
The Industrial Relations Board asked the Union to stop all strike activities and lead its members to restart negotiation conversations. Disobeying the order of the Board could result in fines and sanctions.
The union has characterized the Federal Liberal Government as supporting Air Canada’s “negative to negotiate just” by issuing the back order to work.
Michael Zakaluzny said the strike resulted in the cancellations of flights to Columbia for him and others in the folk complex of Melos, a Ukrainian popular group based in Winnipeg composed of choral, orchestral and dance elements.
“Great disappointment,” said Zakaluzny, co -director of the team. “We had put the preparation work, people had taken … a week on vacation and, suddenly, they don’t go anywhere quickly.”
Thirty -one of the almost 60 members would be presented at the Barranquilla International Folk Festival Estefanía Caicedo in the coastal cities of Barranquilla and Ciénaga.
They had been rehearsing since the beginning of this year and were scheduled to present 15 shows in Columbia for 10 days.
Hours before his flight took off from Winnipeg, they discovered that a stretch of the trip from Toronto to Bogotá had been canceled.
“The festival hoped we were there and participated, they had made arrangements for hotels, food, transport, all those things on their part,” said Zakaluzny.
“The day before the festival begins, we have suddenly left them, without guilt for us, with a large hole in their alignment.”
Zakaluzny said the group searched for alternative flight options through its travel agent, but was not successful.
“To cover themselves, they say they have tried to make alternative arrangements, but none is available. I am not sure … that is really happening, but they do not give it much warning and basically throw everything into a state of disorder.”
Although Air Canada will provide the group’s refunds, the section of its reserved trip through an airline in Columbia did not cancel that flight, so the group is out of pocket for that flight.
Kerilee Falloon, communications director of the Winnipeg airport authority, said it is better to stay at home if he knows in advance that his flight has been canceled and hopes to reserve again.
“It is better not to come to the airport since the airport will not be its point of contact to reserve.”
The calendar of the Arch’s shooting competition had to be overcome for one day, to start on Wednesday, to accommodate possible late arrivals, said Riel Dion, a member of the local team that manages the championships.
Dion said the tense negotiation situation between Air Canada and his staff has created a layer of uncertainty for competition.
“Planning an event of this scale is challenging in itself, and when he adds something as a blow, in addition to that, things definitely make things a bit,” said Dion, who is also a founder and CEO of Event Management Company Camp.
He said that so far some international athletes have arrived in the United States or Canada, but they have had to fight to make alternative flight arrangements to get to Winnipeg.
Information Radio – MBArgray World Youth Championship that face problems due to Air Canada’s strike
Riel Dion tells the guest presenter Cory Funk how flight complications due to Air Canada’s strike are affecting the 2025 World Cup World Championship in Winnipeg.
“There are some [athletes] From farther away, especially the Southeast Asia, who are still talking on the phone with me saying that we still can’t come, our flights were canceled, “he told CBC Information radio Host Markusa.
The 15 -year -old son and Lily of Faiiuz Azli, his 18 -year -old daughter, were among the lucky ones not to face Cancellations of Australia. But 15 athletes and six officials were not so lucky.
From the team of 19 members of Australia, Azli estimates that approximately 14 will arrive on time to compete.
“I am speechless because we know all children, all, as a team, they are very close and now some of them will not be here,” he said. “It’s devastating, it’s very sad.”
