Canadian business groups urge Ottawa to intervene to resolve Canada Post strike

Canadian Chamber of Commerce and provincial counterparts decry "yet different blow" to proviso chains

Published Nov 29, 2024  •  2 infinitesimal read

Canada Post worker Aurelia Arcaro of Rigaud, Que., rallies astatine Canada Post office successful Ottawa, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024. Fifty-five 1000 postal workers person been connected onslaught since Nov. 15. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick /The Canadian Press

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce, on with its provincial counterparts, are urging authorities officials to instrumentality contiguous enactment to resoluteness the ongoing Canada Post strike that has unopen down operations astatine the Crown corp for 2 weeks.

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In a missive sent connected Friday, the chambers of commerce said they are raising the concerns of members crossed the state astir “yet different blow” to proviso chains.

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The radical said the disruption is having the top interaction connected Canadian businesses engaged successful e-commerce, galore of whom were counting connected a sizeable magnitude of gross implicit the vacation season.

“We impulse you to instantly intervene and resoluteness this dispute, arsenic we cannot let Canadians to proceed to wage the terms of inaction,” the missive said.

The letter, which was addressed to the Minister of Labour, Steven MacKinnon, and the Minister of Public Services and Procurement, Jean-Yves Duclos, pointed retired the harm the postal workers’ onslaught was having connected Canada’s retail sector, arsenic good arsenic its “considerable impacts connected northern, agrarian and distant communities.”

“While we admit your engagement and efforts to person each parties resume negotiations alongside national mediators, Canadian families, communities, and businesses request to spot a resolution,” the missive said.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), which represents astir 55,000 employees, has been connected strike since Nov. 15.

Talks betwixt Canada Post Corp. and the CUPW were temporarily suspended by the peculiar national mediator connected Wednesday. The labour curate said helium had requested that some parties conscionable astatine his bureau that day.

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“They volition beryllium told that, arsenic successful each disputes, they unsocial are liable for the consequences of this conflict, and for its resolution,” helium said successful a station connected X, suggesting the national authorities would not intervene successful the labour quality by introducing back-to-work legislation.

Speaking to reporters aboriginal connected Wednesday, MacKinnon said sending the substance to binding arbitration “is not successful the cards,” adjacent though helium invoked that authorization to resoluteness labour disputes astatine Canadian ports and railways successful caller months.

The chambers of commerce said Canada’s proviso chains person been nether changeless strain successful caller years, owed not lone to earthy disasters but the weeks of larboard strikes successful British Columbia and the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the labour disputes that paralyzed Canada’s obstruction web and unopen down the country’s largest eastbound and westbound seashore ports.

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