By Allison Lampert and Rajesh Kumar Singh

MONTREAL/CHICAGO (Reuters) -Results of a vote by Air Canada flight attendants on a wage agreement are expected on Saturday, with more than a half dozen crew members telling Reuters they don’t expect the tentative deal to get approved.

Negotiators said they struck the tentative deal on August 19 to end a crippling four-day strike, after more than 10,000 flight attendants defied government efforts to return them to work and forced the country’s largest carrier back to the bargaining table.

If attendants reject the wage portion of the tentative agreement, the only section subject to the vote, they could not take further legal strike action. The matter would instead go to arbitration, prolonging talks in a dispute that caused Air Canada to withdraw

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