OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canada’s labor minister introduced Friday he’s asking the Canada Industrial Relations Board to order about 55,000 putting Canada Submit workers 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 stated if the board agrees the 2 sides are at an deadlock, union members might 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 stated. “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 stated Canadians — particularly small companies, folks in distant communities and Indigenous folks — have suffered vastly on account of the strike.
The important thing points embrace wages, job safety and the right way to workers a proposed enlargement into weekend supply.
“The Union denounces in the strongest terms this assault on our constitutionally protected right to collectively bargain and to strike,” the Canadian Union of Postal Employees stated in a press release. “This order continues a deeply troubling pattern in which the government uses its arbitrary powers to let employers off the hook.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal authorities beforehand compelled the nation’s two main railroads into arbitration, ending that work stoppage.
MacKinnon stated Canada Submit 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 stated. “Those are interests that are tough to reconcile.”
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