Journal of Commerce--Canada's Parliament will force Canada Post to end its lockout of all employees and resume national postal service, that shut down June 14, through legislation introduced in Parliament Monday.
Federal Labor Minister Lisa Raitt introduced a bill to require "the resumption and continuation of postal services," as letters, parcels and packages piled up in Canada and on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border. The U.S. Postal Service announced last week that it was not sending any mail north across the border pending a return to operations.
The bill likely will take two or three days to pass the Commons and the Senate, with the main opposition being the New Democratic Party, which is opposed to government intervention in bargaining between the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and Canada Post. Read more!
Federal Labor Minister Lisa Raitt introduced a bill to require "the resumption and continuation of postal services," as letters, parcels and packages piled up in Canada and on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border. The U.S. Postal Service announced last week that it was not sending any mail north across the border pending a return to operations.
The bill likely will take two or three days to pass the Commons and the Senate, with the main opposition being the New Democratic Party, which is opposed to government intervention in bargaining between the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and Canada Post. Read more!
