Canada Post strike: will. you be affected?

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Yesterday I came home seeing 2 packages on my door step. At first glance I saw a Canada Post logo on the package so I thought it was delivered by Canada Post but turns out the company that delivered the package to me used a different carrier to deliver the package to me to my house. Seems like major corporations are using different couriers and eating the cost of it (Can’t confirm for each company.

Could it be possible that some of those other couriers may be taking care of delivering packages on behalf of Canada Post during this strike? If so, could they be doing it after hours when there is nobody on the picket lines? Maybe this could be a sign that workers may not have much of a backlog to clear out after the strike ends, though there will definitely be a backlog of postal mail to deliver.  If a strike doesn't get settled until early in the new year, I expect the backlog could take until sometime in April or May before it is cleared out.

Looks like they were just legislated back to work.

Not yet, but could be as early as next week.

Seems like they are going back to work on Tuesday and Canada Post agreed to implement a 5% raise. Looks like not everyone may be back on the job and looks like the union is still fighting as they are appealing it to the CIRB.

I learned about some of the postal workers vowing to continue fighting and defying the legislation.  If memory serves correctly, the idea started in Calgary.

But the defiance is not prevalent in St. John's (where I live), as I saw a Canada Post truck in a parking lot at my workplace this afternoon.

The union are vowing a constitutional challenge, yet again. They did this after the 2018 strike that resulted in back-to-work legislation, and the challenge was dismissed by an Ontario judge.  Wouldn't be surprising if it will be dismissed again this time around.

According to sources, Canada Post will not be accepting new mail nor new packages until Thursday.  The 2018 agreement still applies and is extended to May 22.

I learned over the last few months that Canada Post is involved in an industrial inquiry by the IIC - which is appointed by the Federal Government.  There were two rounds of contract talks since the workers returned to work, but still no deal reached to date.

I find that industrial inquiries have had a history of paving the way for a deal.  It happened with the strike at the Voisey's Bay mines in Labrador in 2011, and later with the Chronicle Herald newspaper in Halifax in 2017. I have a feeling the latest industrial inquiry will lead to a successful deal and a clear understanding of Canada Post's financial problems to the union. I also feel as if a media blackout could help bring a speedy end to the labor strife that's over one year in the making.

Worst case scenario, if the strike resumes, I bet Mark Carney will likely legislate them back to work - something Justin Trudeau would never have done during the course of the strike.