By ROB GILLIES

TORONTO (AP) — The union for 10,000 striking Air Canada flight attendants said Monday they won’t return to work even though the strike, now in its third day, has been declared illegal. The strike at Canada’s largest airline is affecting about 130,000 travelers a day at the peak of the summer travel season, and the two sides remain far apart on pay and other issues.

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Air Canada said rolling cancelations now extend to Tuesday afternoon after the union defied a second return-to-work order. The airline had said earlier that operations would resume on Monday evening but the union president said that won’t happen.

“If Air Canada thinks that planes will be flying this afternoon they are sorely mistaken. That won’t be happening today,” said Mark Hancock, national

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