Canada Post has announced that it will resume operations on Tuesday, Dec. 17, after the Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered them to return to work.
Canada Post, Canada Industrial Relations Board announces company and union have reached an impasse
Canada Post has announced that it will resume operations on Tuesday, Dec. 17, after the Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered them to return to work.
Canada Post announced that it has reached an agreement with the Canadian Postal Workers Union to implement a 5% wage increase retroactively to the day after the collective agreement expires.
Labor Minister Stephen McKinnon on Friday directed the Canada Labor Relations Board to order 55,000 picketing employees back to work if a deal cannot be reached by the end of the year.
Canada Post announced that after two days of public hearings over the weekend, its board of directors determined that negotiations between the Crown corporation and the Canada Postal Workers Union have reached an impasse.
Labor Minister Stephen McKinnon has announced that he will ask the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order Canada Post to resume operations if it finds the contract dispute is at an impasse. Mr McKinnon also said he was appointing an independent panel to examine the company’s structure in line with collective agreements and make recommendations “going forward”.
The union did not immediately respond to a request for comment on restarting work.
The paper said Friday that Mr. McKinnon’s intervention is part of a troubling pattern in which the government exempts employers from bargaining in good faith with workers and their unions.
The strike began on November 15th. Federal mediation was put on hold on Nov. 27 after a mediator concluded the two sides were too far apart.
