CUPW Local 744 participating in Postal Worker Strike

“[Canada Post wants] to cut our jobs and make our work conditions unsafe,” Morison says.

“And they are saying they are poor, or they’re bankrupt, but yet we have millions of dollars worth of electric vehicles just sitting in parking lots not being used at all.”

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The strike comes on the heels of labour disputes at Canada’s ports that ended when Ottawa chose to intervene.

“In 2018 we legislated back to work, we won legislation, they shouldn’t have legislated us back, so we won that in arbitration,” she says.

“We want the right to strike. If you look back in the last couple years you can see a bunch of unions have gone on strike because of the working conditions, because of the economy.”

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Morison says the union sympathizes with people affected by the strike during the holiday season but says the workers will still be delivering checks next week.

“The postal workers definitely do not want our strike or our work stoppage to affect [customers],” she says.

“We will be delivering their checks next week. We’re here for customer service, I love my community, and I love my people, so I don’t want them to be hurt by that. So, we will be delivering that for sure.”

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In Grande Prairie, protests are taking place at multiple locations, including the Canada Post Plant on 84 Avenue, and the post office on 111 Street.

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by Nathaniel Leigh