Canada Post workers are once again making deliveries across the country.
After a month-long strike, the Canada Industrial Relations Board ordered 55,000 postal employees off the picket lines effective Tuesday morning.
“A month is a long time and this time of the year, it’s got to be bad for everybody,” says customer David Bowes.
The back-to-work order didn’t go smoothly.
Supporting unions formed their own blockade that postal workers didn’t want to cross.
“Everybody has decided that for their health and safety reasons, they don’t want to cross the picket line, but they are here and willing and able to go to work,” says Canada Post employee Brian Lee.
Eventually, workers did cross the line and headed inside en masse.
Canada Postsays, even though workers are back on the job, it will take some time to safely ramp up their services. The postal organization is asking for customers to …