Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu orders Air Canada and striking flight attendants back to work. – National

The federal government is intervening to resolve a labour dispute with Air Canada and the union representing flight attendants.

Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says she has ordered binding arbitration and for operations to resume.

Passengers around the world are feeling the effects after the union representing more than 10,000 flight attendants with Air Canada announced its members were walking off the job after it was unable to reach an eleventh-hour deal with the airline.

The strike officially began just before 1 a.m. ET on Saturday and in turn, Air Canada locked out its agents about 30 minutes later due to the strike action.

More coming.