TORONTO — The Canadian Union of Public Employees says a strike by 10,000 flight attendants at Air Canada will continue, defying an order from the Canada Industrial Relations Board that it provide public notice by noon ET that it had ended the strike.

The board had declared the strike unlawful after the federal government on Saturday used Section 107 of the Labour Code to force the two sides into binding arbitration.

CUPE national president Mark Hancock says that while the union is very sympathetic to the Canadians caught up in the strike, union members “will not be returning to the skies this afternoon.”

Speaking at a press conference at Toronto Pearson International Airport, he says the union is standing up not just for flight attendant members, but for the right of collective bargaini

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