OTTAWA — Senators are to resume a special sitting today to examine a back-to-work bill that would force an end to rotating strikes at Canada Post as the walkouts enter their sixth week. The bill could receive royal assent and become law a short time later, which would force striking postal workers back to work by noon on Tuesday. Picket lines were up Sunday at Canada Post facilities in northern Ontario, as well as in parts of British Columbia. The union’s national president has called the back-to-work bill a slap in the faces of Canada Post employees and accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of turning his back on postal workers. The former Conservative government forced an end to a lockout of postal workers during a 2011 dispute by enacting back-to-work legislation, which was later declared by a court to be unconstitutional.

Source: National Post November 26, 2018 11:33 UTC