Strike at Canada Post: Jagmeet Singh warns Liberals

While in Newfoundland, the leader of the federal NDP, Jagmeet Singh, demonstrated with Canada Post picketers, promising them not to support the minority Liberal government if the latter attempts to adopt special legislation that would end the strike.

The solution is to negotiate a good contract. […] If you introduce a bill that harms [aux] workers’ rights, we will vote againsthe said Monday on the sidelines of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labor convention.

A few minutes later, to the applause of a few dozen strikers, he delivered this same message in front of a post office in downtown Saint-Jean.

We want to be respected by our employer, we want better salaries and we want to protect our pensions and the pensions of new recruitsaffirms Arleen Critchpost office agent who has worked for the Crown corporation for 25 years.

While she recognizes the impacts of the strike, especially in rural areas and a few weeks before Christmas, she believes that postal workers had no other choice but to picket.

Arleen Critch knows well that in 2011 and 2018, Ottawa passed a law forcing postal employees to return to work. She says she is encouraged by Jagmeet Singh’s promise.

Canada Post must not listen to us if the government still decides to put an end to our effortsshe maintains.

For the moment, the Liberal government has appointed a mediator, but has done nothing more. In recent months, however, Ottawa has intervened to put an end to the strikes called by longshoremen and railway workers.

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