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Canada’s Legal Tool to Quash Strikes Faces Mounting Resistance

Air Canada flight attendants and supporters during a strike at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Aug. 16.

Photographer: Arlyn McAdorey/Bloomberg

At Toronto’s biggest airport on Sunday, the national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees tore up a back-to-work order to a cheering crowd.

It’s an image likely to be invoked the next time a union is at loggerheads with an employer.