Air Canada and the union representing its flight attendants have reached a tentative labor agreement, ending a three-day strike that grounded thousands of flights and impacted over half a million customers.
The deal, first announced early Tuesday morning by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, came after Air Canada’s roughly 10,000 flight attendants defied two government-issued return-to-work orders, opening the door to what could have been Canada’s worst labor crisis in decades. Instead, the flight attendants will return to work Tuesday, allowing for a partial restoration of service by Tuesday evening.
