TORONTO, ON — 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 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.

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

“We will not be returning to the skies,” said Mark Hancock, national president for Canadian Union of Public Employees, or CUPE, which also represents some non-public sectors.

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