Canada Post workers in Alberta head back to work
Posted Jun 9, 2011 6:56 am.
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Canada Post workers in Alberta are heading back to work after a 24 hour strike.
Taking their place though are over 800 postal workers in various locations across the country.
The communities are: Labrador City, NL, Acadie-Bathurst, NB, Summerside, PEI, Ste-Therese and Ste-Jerome, QUE; the Ontario Cities of Thunder Bay, Hearst, Brantford and St. Thomas, Flin Flon, MAN, Vernon, BC, and the territorial capitals of Yellowknife, NWT and Whitehorse, Yukon.
Canada Post and the union representing most of its employees are turning up the pressure on each other and the public, as their negotiators grind away with little sign of movement at the table after nearly a week of rotating strikes.
The postal service is preparing to reduce mail deliveries to three times a week starting Monday.
Canada Post spokesman John Hamilton says it’s because mail volumes have dropped by half since last Thursday, when postal workers began a series of rotating strikes.
Rotating strikes began last Friday in Winnipeg and have since been held in Hamilton, Montreal, Moncton, NB, Victoria, Calgary and Edmonton.
