Almost all of Air Canada’s more than 10,000 flight attendants voted to reject the company’s contract offer, extending a labour dispute that led to a brief shutdown last month.

Flight staff went on strike for three days in August, causing the cancellation of more than 2,000 flights, before the union and the airline reached a tentative agreement. But the union’s members voted 99.1 per cent against it, according to a Saturday post on its website.

The two sides will now go back to mediation, so no strike or lockout is expected.

The deal offered an overall compensation increase of about 40 per cent over four years, including pension and benefits, and added provisions for ground pay duty, but was deemed insufficient by cabin crew members. The union said 94.6 per cent of its membership voted.

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