Canada Post strike update: CUPW bucks minister’s ‘time out’ [Video]

This week, Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon announced a “time-out” in the ongoing Canada Post strike. In a way, Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) negotiator Jim Gallant says he agrees with that phrasing.

“I feel like he’s treating us like children,” Gallant told CTV Power Play host Mike Le Couteur in an interview on Friday. “It’s time-out, that’s for sure.”

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In a press conference on Friday, MacKinnon said he was tapping the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to intervene in negotiations that have reached what he calls “an impasse.”

The minister asked the board to “assess the likelihood” of a negotiated agreement this year, and if resolution proves unlikely, order the union back to work.

“The Government of Canada places great importance on collective bargaining as the preferred means of resolving the disagreements between …