Canada Post Rejects Union Terms for Arbitration as Both Sides Enter Bitter Stalemate

Canada Post Rejects Union Terms for Arbitration as Both Sides Enter Bitter Stalemate
A Canada Post employee parks a truck at a delivery depot in Vancouver, on Dec. 17, 2024. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck
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A government push to steer Canada Post and the union representing 55,000 mail workers toward common ground hit a big pothole Monday.

As an increasingly acrimonious impasse drags on, Canada Post rejected a framework put forward by the union for a binding arbitration process, which Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu asked the parties to work toward just five days earlier.