Air Canada’s striking flight attendants are planning to defy a government order sending them back to work on Sunday, leaders said.

“We will be challenging this blatantly unconstitutional order that violates the Charter rights of 10,000 flight attendants,” the Canadian Union of Public Employees said in a statement. “We remain on strike. We demand a fair, negotiated contract and to be compensated for all hours worked.”

The flight attendants hit the picket lines at 1 a.m. Saturday, bringing Canada’s largest airline to a grinding halt. The work stoppage has left 100,000 would-be passengers stranded.

About 12 hours after the strike began, the Canadian government intervened and ordered the contract dispute into arbitration, theoretically ending the strike and sending everyone back to wo

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