BEFORE CHRIST. union groups protest after Canada Post ordered them back to work

VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – The federal government may have legislated to end Canada Post's rotating strikes, but BC's labor movement is now moving to show support for its unionized colleagues.

B.C. The Federation of Labor organizes a large rally in downtown Vancouver on Thursday around noon. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers had already warned that stopping strikes might turn against other unionized workers and today other union members have stuck on the Richmond and Pacific Processing Center. curbed traffic leaving the site. Police also stopped to make sure trucks leaving the Richmond compound would not be delayed by more than a few minutes.

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Outgoing President, outgoing President Irene Lanzinger is expecting a massive protest tomorrow – with potentially thousands – against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to stop rotating strikes with legislation.

"One of the ways in which workers' rights are undermined is through back-to-work legislation. The Liberals introduced a very one-sided back-to-work legislation. It only benefits the employer, she says. "(The strikes) were a little embarrassing, but they certainly did not undermine, you know, everything that is essential in our lives."

Protesters outside @canadapostcorp complex to #YVR Do not stop the trucks from coming and going, but as a manifestation of peaceful solidarity with @cupwvancouver Members who have been ordered to return to work slow down traffic to chat with drivers. @ NEWS1130 pic.twitter.com/jXF9cxE4ey

– Marcella Bernardo (@ Bernardo1130) November 28, 2018

Richard Schaeffer, another unionized worker, spent several hours monitoring the treatment center on Wednesday.

"You do not legislate people, you negotiate," he says, adding that he was there to "send a message only to the federal government."

Gurinder Sidhu, also a unionist, says he does not want labor laws in Canada to be eroded the way they have been elsewhere.

"We are supposed to be different from what happens in the United States, where workers are attacked. This is what is happening here in our country by Justin Trudeau, whose own father would be quite disappointed with what is happening, "he says. "I think that's the reason why many of us are here."

Some people admit that they are colleagues, but others say that it is only civilians who do not agree with @cupwvancouver workers being legislated instead of #Ottawa force @canadapostcorp negotiate a new contract. @ NEWS1130 pic.twitter.com/qLZ4guXjZl

– Marcella Bernardo (@ Bernardo1130) November 28, 2018

Milena Kolloy also picketed at the treatment site.

"My parents were in a union," she says. "I thought it was really important that the problem with them was that their rural workers be paid less than the inhabitants of the city."

The law ordering Canada Post employees to return to work became law on Monday; workers are returning today, while the union is pursuing arbitration to resolve disputes between the state corporation and the union.

– With records from the Canadian press