Most Canadians want Ottawa to intervene in Canada Post strike: poll

A caller canvass suggests Canadians are supportive of authorities involution successful the labour disputes astatine ports and astatine Canada Post.

Polling steadfast Leger recovered 63 per cent of respondents to a caller survey were successful favour of the Liberal government’s determination to measurement successful and inquire the Canada Industrial Relations Board to bid a resumption of larboard operations and determination negotiations into binding arbitration. Nineteen per cent were opposed, and different 19 per cent said they didn’t know.

Just implicit fractional of respondents, 57 per cent, said they would beryllium successful favour of the authorities doing the aforesaid successful the ongoing Canada Post strike. Twenty-one per cent were opposed, and 22 per cent said they didn’t know.

About 55,000 employees represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have been connected strike since Friday, shutting down operations and halting deliveries. The national authorities has appointed its apical mediator to assistance scope a caller agreement.

On Friday, Labour Minister Steve MacKinnon ruled retired aboriginal involution successful that strike. 

Earlier successful the week, MacKinnon intervened to extremity the quality astatine Canada’s ports. Port workers successful B.C. and Montreal were locked out, freezing cargo instrumentality movements from 2 of the country’s busiest ports.

Leger polled 1,529 radical from Nov. 15 to 17. The canvass does not person a borderline of mistake due to the fact that online polls aren’t considered genuinely random samples.

Fifty-one per cent of respondents said larboard operations should beryllium classified arsenic indispensable services and not allowed to stop, portion 32 per cent said larboard workers should beryllium allowed to onslaught to amended moving conditions.

The unions representing the Montreal and B.C. larboard workers person pledged to situation the minister’s involution successful court.

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Canadians were much acquainted with the onslaught astatine Canada Post than the lockout astatine the ports, with 86 per cent saying they had heard that postal workers could locomotion disconnected the job, compared to 67 per cent who were acquainted with the larboard dispute.

Sixty-one per cent of those who took the canvass said they were disquieted astir imaginable disruptions to their message work owed to a postal strike, and 57 per cent said they were acrophobic astir imaginable delays implicit the vacation season.

Around the aforesaid number, 56 per cent, said they were supportive of the demands being made by Canada Post workers, portion 29 per cent were opposed.

The national is asking for a cumulative wage hike of 24 per cent implicit 4 years, portion Canada Post has offered an 11.5 per cent increase. Other issues see occupation security, benefits and declaration enactment for parcel transportation connected weekends.