Transportation
Air Canada Cabin Crew Union Resoundingly Rejects Pay Package
Passengers wait at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Photographer: Arlyn McAdorey/BloombergAlmost all of Air Canada’s more than 10,000 flight attendants voted to reject the company’s contract offer, extending a labor 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% against it, according to a Saturday post on its website.