Canada postal workers strike after government orders end to door-to-door delivery | Canada
The post workers in Canada have been on strike after warning the government on a “existential crisis ve and ordered comprehensive changes in national service, including the termination of the delivery through the door within ten years.
The union, representing the Canadian Post employees, described the proposed changes as a “attack ına to workers who struggled to compete with an increase in private courier services.
The strike, which was announced late by the union on Thursday, shows the ground to stop the mail services of the country for the second time in the last 12 months. Mail and parcels shall not be processed or delivered during the strike period and new goods will not be accepted.
“Canadian Post’s operations will be closed during a national strike and millions of Canadians and businesses will affect the business,” Posta Service said.
Public Works Minister Joël Lightbound, Canada Post’s Post Service, even after lending $ 1 billion, “he said,” effectively bankrupt “, and repeated financial rescue has not been a solution that has lost more than $ 4 billion since 2018, he added. In the last quarter, Canada Post recorded a loss of $ 407 in the highest quarter.
Lightbound offers a significant service to Canadians and especially to rural, distant and indigenous communities, and the Canadians are rightly connected to it and want it to be saved, ”he said.
In order to blind the losses, the Canadian government, the only shareholder of the Canadian Post, ordered to be delivered to the door from the door to the door and close a series of post office. Crown Corporation was given 45 days for a restructuring plan.
The Union said that he was “angry and horrified” with the minister’s comments.
“During this time, the Canada Post did everything he could to avoid real bargaining, and he trusts the government intervention again and again. Today is just another example.”
The long -term negotiations between the Union and the postal service lasted for more than 20 months and there was no clear agreement.
The postal service fought against the rise of courier services that operate more frequently and at lower cost. In 2006, the peak letter delivery also slowed down significantly.
What is in question is the attempt to reduce labor costs and change the delivery costs as they move away from the traditional fixed routes currently used by the service. Both encountered opposition from the Union, which worried that changes would rely more on the full -time workforce and rely more on temporary or part -time workers.
Business groups, small companies in front of the holiday season in front of a “big” stroke warned. Last November, the strike, the cost of small enterprises was lost.
Federal Business Minister Patty Hajdu said that Air Canada flight officials were faced with criticism for the sudden termination of a recent strike. “I encourage both sides to continue working for a fair solution.”
