Air Canada has suspended plans to restart operations after the union representing 10,000 flight attendants decided to defy a return-to-work order.

The Canada Industrial Relations Board has declared a strike by 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants illegal and ordered them back on the job after they ignored an earlier order to return to work and submit to arbitration.

Air Canada flight attendants are refusing a government order to end their strike, leaving travelers and cargo shippers without service for a third consecutive day. The post Air Canada flight attendants defy federal back-to-work order appeared first on FreightWaves.