Air Canada flight attendants have rejected the employer’s wage offer.

Flight attendants at Air Canada wrapped up voting at 3 p.m. ET today on a tentative new contract, with 99.1 per cent voting down the airline’s wage offer.

The airline says the wage portion will now be referred to mediation as previously agreed to by both sides.

The Air Canada component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) says most terms would still form part of a new collective agreement with the airline, with the exception of the wage issue.

The union representing more than 10,000 flight attendants and Air Canada agreed to the tentative new agreement in August that was to raise wages and establish a pay structure for time worked when aircraft are on the ground, ending a strike that upended thousands of

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