Canada Directs Labor Board to End Strike at Biggest Airline

Canada’s government moved to order more than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants back to work, less than 12 hours into a strike that caused hundreds of flight cancellations.

Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu directed the independent Canada Industrial Relations Board to order the company and the striking employees to resume operations. She asked the board to impose binding arbitration and to extend the terms of the flight attendants’ existing contract until a new one can be determined.