CANADA’S POSTAL UNION DIGS IN ON WAGES AND BENEFITS Labor unrest hits Canada Post. Following 12 days of rotating strikes in early June in several Canadian cities and a June 15 lockout by Canada Post, Canada’s Conservative-controlled parliament passed legislation June 26 ordering the nation’s 48,000 postal employees back to work....
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LABOR UNREST HITS POSTAL SECTOR Tight budgets have prompted a renewed debate over whether public-sector workers -- including postal workers -- are paid too much. The New York Times cited data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis to show that public workers' annual compensation, including benefits, outpaces private-sector employees' compensation by...
The U.S. Postal Service recently announced that it had lost more than $300 million in its most recent fiscal quarter. The agency looks on track to suffer its fourth consecutive billion-dollar loss later this year — and has warned that it may run out of cash altogether. Given this alarming financial...