Canada Post Employees Back To Work Today

Canada Post has restarted operations and begun the process of ramping up and stabilizing operations across the country.

This, after the Canada Industrial Relations Board determined on the weekend that the corporation and union were too far apart in negotiations to resolve issues before the end of the year.

In a statement yesterday, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers called the decision disappointing for members who “made sacrifices to fight for what is right” and their rights to negotiate improvements to working conditions.

The union says it will challenge the decision with hearings set for mid-January.

55,000 Canadian Union of Postal Workers members walked off the job on November 14th.

Canada Post says it will start today by working through mail and parcels trapped in the system since the strike began.

New commercial volumes will not be accepted into the network until Thursday, which means postal workers will not pick up or accept mail or parcels for the first 48 hours.

That gives them time to reopen facilities, restart machines and vehicles that have been idle for weeks and begin working through the mail volumes.

As new mail is accepted, it will be delivered on a first-in, first-out basis. Customers should expect delivery delays through the remainder of 2024 and into January.

You can visit Canada Post for more information.