00:00Canada's government forced 10,000 striking Air Canada flight attendants back to work and into arbitration on Saturday.
00:10It came after more than 100,000 travelers around the world were left stranded during the peak summer travel season,
00:17after Air Canada canceled flights during the strike.
00:20The government's action came less than 12 hours after workers walked off the job.
00:25The federal jobs minister said now is not the time to take risks with the economy while announcing the intervention.
00:35Meanwhile, the union's president said the decision violated the workers' constitutional right to strike.
00:41Air Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees have been in contract talks for about eight months,
00:46but they have yet to reach a tentative deal.
00:48Both sides say they remain far apart on the issue of pay and the unpaid work flight attendants do when planes aren't in the air.
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