OTTAWA, Ontario — Canada’s labor minister introduced Friday he’s asking the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order about 55,000 hanging Canada Publish staff again to work after a 4 week work stoppage that disrupted mail service in the course of the busy vacation season.
Labor Minister Steven MacKinnon mentioned if the board agrees the 2 sides are at an deadlock, union members can be informed to return to work till Could, whereas an inquiry is launched to find out why the 2 sides can not come to an settlement.
“Canadians are rightly fed up,” MacKinnon mentioned. “I have a responsibility to protect Canadians.”
With Christmas quick approaching there was no obvious motion on the bargaining desk.
MacKinnon had beforehand rebuffed requires Ottawa to intervene, saying it’s as much as the 2 sides to work out a deal. However he mentioned Canadians — particularly small companies, folks in distant communities and Indigenous folks — have suffered tremendously because of the strike.
The important thing points embrace wages, job safety and the best way to workers a proposed enlargement into weekend supply.
MacKinnon mentioned Canada Publish is constructed to ship letters however letter volumes have dropped dramatically and there’s a extremely aggressive parcel supply market.
“There are major structural changes in that industry that have to be accounted for. There are workers aspirations that have to be accounted for,” MacKinnon mentioned. “Those are interests that are tough to reconcile.”
