Government orders striking Air Canada flight attendants to return to work

<p>Union criticises move less than 12 hours after start of action that has left more than 100,000 travellers stranded</p><p>The Canadian government has forced flight attendants at Air Canada back to work less than 12 hours after they began striking and ordered binding arbitration over a dispute that has left more than 100,000 travellers stranded around the world during the peak summer travel season.</p><p>Since March, Canada’s largest airline and the union representing its flight attendants have been locked in an increasingly bitter dispute over what the union <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/air-canada-cancels-flights-strike">has described</a> as “poverty wages” and unpaid labour. Flight attendants are not paid for any work before or after the plane takes off.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/17/government-orders-striking-air-canada-flight-attendants-return-work">Continue reading...</a>