Air Canada will resume flights on Sunday after the northern neighbor’s government intervened to end the workers’ strike that halted hundreds of flights this weekend.
The airline said in a statement that the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) directed Air Canada to resume airline operations and ordered all Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge flight attendants to return to work by 2 p.m. EDT on Sunday.
The CIRB was acting on a Saturday directive from the Canadian Minister of Jobs and Families, Patty Hajdu, who moved to end the strike and require final binding arbitration to break a contract impasse. The order extended the current contract until a new agreement is reached.
Approximately 10,000 flight attendants walked off the job on Saturday, for the first time since 1985, as progress toward a new contract stalled after several months of negotiations.
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