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Air Canada flight attendants back labor deal

Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:35pm EDT

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 12 (Reuters) - Flight attendants at Air Canada (ACa.TO) have voted in favor of a labor agreement with Canada's biggest airline, a union spokeswoman said on Sunday.

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Sixty-three percent of the flight attendants who voted backed the 21-month agreement, Katherine Thompson, president of Air Canada component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), told Reuters.

CUPE represents more than 6,800 flight attendants at Air Canada.

(Reporting by Nicole Mordant; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)

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