Canada Post strike: Purolator workers won’t handle packages, union says

With Canada Post workers on strike, the national that represents workers astatine Purolator says its members won’t grip packages that were postmarked oregon identified arsenic coming from the Crown corporation.

In a connection to Global News, Teamsters Canada said the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has its “full support” successful its onslaught action.

“Purolator is simply a subsidiary of the Canada Post group. Our extremity is to halt Canada Post from diverting their freight wholesale, thereby utilizing a subsidiary to interruption a union,” Christopher Monette, manager of nationalist affairs for Teamsters, wrote.

“Teamsters Canada firmly believes that bully national jobs — with surviving wages and unafraid status — are indispensable pillars of Canadian society. Unfortunately, Canada Post has taken a antithetic stance astatine the bargaining table.”

Monette said idiosyncratic businesses that vessel straight with Purolator volition inactive get their packages delivered.

CUPW members astatine Canada Post began a nationwide onslaught connected Friday, aft the national said it failed to scope caller corporate agreements for its agrarian and municipality members.

With the onslaught underway, Canada Post warned Canadians they volition look delays successful receiving their mail, and postage already successful the strategy volition not beryllium delivered, with a fewer exceptions.

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It’s not the archetypal clip Canada Post has gone connected strike, antecedently doing truthful successful 2018 and 2011.

Both times they were legislated backmost to enactment by the bulk national governments of the time, however, Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon, portion of the Liberal number government, signalled connected Friday Ottawa was not looking “at immoderate different solution different than negotiation.”

He added that negotiations betwixt the 2 sides were “extremely difficult,” with “big issues” to lick that person seen small advancement made.

There volition beryllium nary transportation of message oregon parcels during the onslaught and immoderate station offices volition close, according to the Crown corporation.

However, Canada Post workers volition inactive present benefits cheques connected Wednesday, Nov. 20, according to a announcement posted successful the model of a shuttered postal bureau successful Ottawa connected Friday.