The Conservative government tabled legislation Monday that could send locked-out Canada Post employees back to work. The move came just hours after the union and management returned to the negotiating table.Canada Post announced late last Tuesday that it was locking out employees after nearly two weeks of rotating strikes by the union.
Labour Minister Lisa Raitt introduced the bill in the House of Commons after question period at 3 p.m. ET. Little else could be done on the bill Monday, which is an "opposition day" in the House with debate controlled by the NDP.
Raitt says she's open to meeting with the two sides, as she did by phone at noon Monday, to help them in the process.
"We're here to put people back to work because it affects the national economy and their process isn't working," she said after tabling the bill.
The bill would force the two sides into final offer selection binding arbitration, meaning each side tables its final offer and the arbitrator picks one or the other.
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