Canada Post workers across the country are heading back to work after the Senate passed legislation Monday night to end five weeks of rotating strikes.
Mail service was expected to resume at 1pm Labrador Time today but the union’s executive committee is currently meeting to decide whether to fight the legislation.
Negotiations have been underway for nearly a year, but the dispute escalated more recently when CUPW members launched rotating strikes October 22.
Under the new legislation, the union said postal workers will be forced to go back to work under the old collective agreement, which it asserted would result in at least 315 disabling injuries and thousands of hours of forced, unpaid overtime.