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Air Canada Strikers Dig In Against Order: ‘Can’t Fire Us All’

Air Canada flight attendants and supporters during a strike at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Aug. 16.Photographer: Arlyn McAdorey/Bloomberg

An Air Canada union wants to “dismantle” a process the government is using to end strikes, a representative said after flight attendants defied an order to return to work on Sunday.

“If we stick together, they can’t fire us all,” Wesley Lesosky, president of the Air Canada Component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees that represents more than 10,000 cabin crew, said in a public video call late on Sunday. “The large national union behind us is fully supporting us for our cause, fully supporting the dismantling of the 107 process.”