Canada Post strike: Workers return to work, Lethbridge reacts [Video]

Lethbridge residents will see mail begin moving again, now that Canadian postal workers are heading back to work.  

The Canada Industrial Relations Board announced Monday that postal workers must head back to the job Tuesday, with a deal to be hammered out in the coming year.

Members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) local 770 have been picketing outside the downtown branch of Canada Post since the strike started.

“it’s kind of disappointing,” said Cole Morgan with CUPW local 770.

“Many of our members feel that this was the corporation’s strategy all along, is just to wait for the government to intervene, so it’s kind of a travesty.”

Canada Post workers will be receiving a five per cent raise retroactive to the start of the strike until negotiations resume, but local union representatives say the raise falls well short of expectations.

“At the end of the day, the five per cent doesn’t even catch us up …