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 Monday that it had ended the strike.

"We will not be returning to the skies this afternoon," said CUPE national president Mark Hancock at a press conference shortly after the deadline had passed.

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

Hancock said Monday that the union would press on as it was fighting not just for flight attendants, but for the right to collective bargaining.

"If it means folks lik

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