Canada Post workers stop picketing outside postal depot
Posted Jun 27, 2011 08:43:52 AM.
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More than 100 workers at Canada Post are finally at work at the Almon Street depot after being turned away by picketing, locked-out workers for the morning shift on Monday.
Back to work legislation was passed Sunday evening, but unionized Canada Post workers in Halifax vowed to not won’t go back to work until it officially took effect at 4 p.m.
Outside the Canada Post outlet on Almon Street, approximately 100 unionized mail carriers refused to let managers enter the facility without a police escort for the early shift that started around 8:30 a.m.
“We’ve told them they can go back to work when we go back to work,” said postal worker Tony Rogers. “We’re ordered to go back to work at 9:30 tonight and they’re more than welcome to go in there.”
The bill, passed Sunday by the Senate, officially takes effect at 9:30 p.m. Atlantic time, but any worker who would normally be at work by then is to report for their normal start time – which will be 4 p.m. for most.
Police were on scene, but did not escort anyone across the picket line.
PSAC workers, who have been working throughout the strike, were also barred from crossing the picket line today.
