Postal Workers Resist Back-to-Work Order

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'We're not going back:' Calgary postal workers defiant in face of impending back-to-work order

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Federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon said he’s referred the dispute to the Canada Industrial Relations Board .

If the board determines a deal isn’t within immediate reach, postal workers could be back on the job as early as next week .

Canada Post is seeking a 19 per cent pay hike over four years and a guaranteed 20-hour work week for part-time employees.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has expressed a desire to privatize the U.S. Postal Service which lost $9.5 billion in the last fiscal year . But pushing that change would likely trigger a backlash from rural, heavily Republican -voting jurisdictions that rely on the federal service. X: @BillKaufmannjrn.

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