More than 55,000 postal workers across the country are hitting the picket lines, including those in Lethbridge.

Dozens of Canada Post employees, represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) Local 770, rallied outside the downtown Lethbridge post office.

Troy Tailfeathers, President of CUPW Local 770, says negotiations had been ongoing for several months.

He claims that the corporation has taken a “take it or leave it” approach to labour negotiations and has never been interested in finding common ground or compromise.

After Canada Post’s employees stopped delivering flyers last week, federal Procurement Minister Joel Lightbound announced sweeping changes to the national postal service on Thursday, including the elimination of door-to-door mail delivery, the closures of so

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