With Canada Post workers on strike for a third day, small business owners say the walkout could not have come at a worse time.With Canada Post workers on strike for a third day, small business owners say the walkout could not have come at a worse time.
But the two sides appear nowhere close to a deal after nearly a year of negotiating. The federal government has indicated it's not currently planning to intervene to end the strike by some 55,000 workers, who hit the picket lines early Friday. James began looking at alternatives about six week ago and started using Canpar Express, UPS and FedEx for domestic deliveries. But he says they can charge three times the shipping rate, so it's "cost prohibitive." About 85 per cent of the parcels he sells are delivered by mail.
Steven Tufts, a labour expert and associate professor at York University, told CBC News Network on Friday that CUPW has some leverage in negotiations because of holiday spending, but there's a bigger issue: What should the business model of a company that has lost money in the last six years look like in the future.
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