Following marathon bargaining sessions that reached into the wee hours, Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have reached tentative agreements, averting a possible mail disruption that had loomed for months. The union also provided no details but said its negotiating committee is unanimously recommending the draft pacts to members. The union's two bargaining units — for rural and urban workers, respectively — will each have to ratify the new terms by a majority vote. "We achieved these agreements because we remained strong and maintained our strategy," the union said in a statement Tuesday evening. The negotiations were extended twice since the weekend, when a deadline expired on a 72-hour job action notice issued last Thursday by the union.

Source: CBC News August 30, 2016 22:29 UTC