Meanwhile, Canada Post itself has struggled in recent years to compete with private carriers, and has been losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year since 2018.
Negotiations between the union and Canada Post, helped by a special mediator, are continuing, but the end could be a while off yet. The federal government could step in and order workers back to work, as they did with mail carriers in 2018 – and port workers earlier this month. But the move would risk further alienating workers and undermining labor rights. But the Liberals have proven before they’re willing to go nuclear and legislate employees back to work, and they may be prepared to do so again.
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