More than 30 striking flight attendants rallied outside Air Canada’s departures gate at Winnipeg’s airport Saturday morning, joining colleagues across the country on picket lines before being ordered back to work.

Shannon Marion picketed with 35 of her colleagues, calling for fair wages, before news of the federal government’s order broke.

“I love my job. Air Canada is a great company. I just feel that there’s not fair negotiations happening at this moment,” she said. “Inflation has risen. We need to be paid.”

Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu ordered binding arbitration for the 10,000 workers, ending a work stoppage that had begun less than 12 hours earlier, late Saturday morning.

The employees went on strike after Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees failed to reach

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