As picket lines dwindle and support from Canada Post workers for their national strike fades, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is playing a dangerous waiting game, labour relations experts say.
This week, the union met with public works minister Joël Lightbound hoping to convince him to roll back some of the restructuring he OK’d for the Crown corporation in late September, which included an end to home delivery and the shuttering of some rural post offices — a flashpoint for the strike.
It doesn’t appear to have worked.
CUPW didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the results of their Wednesday night meeting.
But Lightbound’s spokesperson made it clear the government was still concerned about Canada Post’s growing sea of red ink.
“Canada Post is part of the fabric