Canada Post says workers to return Tuesday after labour board ruling [Video]

Canada Post says operations will resume on Tuesday after the Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered a return to work.

Canada Post says it has agreed with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to implement a five per cent wage increase retroactive to the day after the collective agreements expired.

Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon on Friday directed the CIRB to order the 55,000 picketing employees back to work if a deal wasn’t doable before the end of the year.

Canada Post says the board determined negotiations between the Crown corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are at an impasse after two days of hearings over the weekend.

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It says union members have been ordered back to work under their existing contracts, which have been extended until May to allow the bargaining process to resume.

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