Canada Post Rotating Strike Hits Home

The Canada Post strike is starting to impact service in Northwestern Ontario.
A local Union official tells CKDR News that mail delivery in parts of Dryden has been cancelled.
Residents in what is considered ‘Walk 3’; Casimir east to Sandy Lane-St.Charles Street, won’t be getting their mail today.
The Union official adds that Canada Post has also cancelled employees drug plan and vacation.
They add that job action is escalating and that a full-scale strike could come as early as next Monday.
Meantime, a postal union spokeswoman is disputing Canada Post’s claim that mail volumes have dropped by as much a 50 per cent since rotating
strikes began almost a week ago.
Bev Ray, president of the local Edmonton postal union, says
there’s still quite a bit of mail that’s in the system and being
moved.
Calgary and Edmonton were the latest cities hit today by rotating
strikes by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
Ray says there are fewer parcels being shipped but they’re being
diverted to courier service Purolator, in which Canada Post owns a
major stake.
Ray also says there hasn’t been much movement towards a
settlement.
Rotating strikes began last Friday in Winnipeg and have since hit
Montreal, Moncton, N.B. and Victoria.