THUNDER BAY — The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) will transition from a nationwide strike to rotating strikes, starting on Saturday at 6 a.m.
The union announced the transition on Thursday with the aim of getting mail and parcels moving, while it continues to “struggle for good collective agreements and a strong public postal service,” according to a statement on the union's website.
“We’re going back to work on Tuesday and we will be implementing picket lines in various places at various times for one day (per week) only, so that the general public can start receiving their goods and mail again,” said Leo Favreau, the president of the CUPW local 620 which represents postal workers in the region.
Favreau explained that the union has not really released a lot of information to