After a month-long strike, Canada Post workers have returned to their posts following a government intervention. The labour board ordered workers back on the job, citing a lack of progress in negotiations. While mail service is resuming, customers should expect delays as Canada Post works through backlogs.
Christopher Reynolds, The Canadian PressPostal workers are back on the job this morning after the federal government intervened to end a month long strike. Canada Post trucks, conveyors and mail carriers are moving again after a month-long strike by more than 55,000 postal workers left letters and parcels in limbo. Following a ministerial directive, the country’s labour board ordered employees back on the job when it determined the two sides stood too far apart to reach a deal by year’s end.
Canada Post warned that customers should expect delays as it works through backlogs, and that holdups could persist into the new year. “With a large, integrated network of processing plants, depots and post offices, stabilizing operations will take time and the company asks Canadians for their patience,” it said in a release Monday. The first step involves “working through the mail and parcels trapped in the system” since the strike began on Nov. 15.Some locations seemed to be accepting them regardless though. Don Suppelsa dropped off a gift package at an outlet in Oshawa, Ont., bound for his sister and brother-in-law in Nova Scotia.Suppelsa complained that private carriers had been taking advantage of Canadians in the postal service’s absence. “They were charging a lot more to send stuff, but I waited,” he said. Ontario resident Roland Horner said the post office in Burlington accepted his envelopes bearing donations to the Salvation Army and other charities this morning.The Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered workers back on the job after a directive from Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon, who said on Friday he was giving the two sides a “timeout” as negotiations seemed to have stalled. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has contested the move, with the labour board set to hear its challenges in mid-January, the union sai
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