Dozens of Canada Post workers were out on the picket line in downtown Regina on Friday, carrying signs reading “CUPW ON STRIKE,” and “Save Door-to-Door.”
Morgan Janzen, president of CUPW Local Regina 820, said postal workers are feeling a lot of disappointment after Public Works and Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound announced that the struggling Crown corporation will slow down the frequency of mail delivery and shutter some post offices. Door-to-door mail delivery will end for almost all Canadian households within the next decade.
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