Rotating postal strikes continue
Strikes are starting to take toll on services
Kuujjuaq’s post office — the blue building at the bottom left of this photo — won’t see much new mail today as the rotating postal strikes hit Montreal. (PHOTO BY JANE GEORGE)
POSTMEDIA NEWS
Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have been trying to hammer out a new collective agreement since October 2010, but no deal has been reached, despite frequent negotiation sessions.
On June 2 in Winnipeg, the union started the first in what has been a steady sequence of rotating strikes across the country that have saddled postal service in specific regions on a 24- or 48-hour basis. Toronto,
Scarborough, Ont., and Montreal were the latest cities on the rotation Monday night, with the union announcing that more than 15,000 workers would be hitting the picket lines. It would be the second rotating strike to hit Montreal.
Although the sides continue to talk on a near-daily basis, the effects of the rotating strikes, combined with a reduction in mail delivery schedules in many areas, are starting to take a toll.
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