Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 25, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba M in leu picket line tension moves inside Post office returning letter Carrier says by Lisa priest picket line tension moved inside the main Post office yesterday where Winnipeg letter carriers complained of working in a Funer alike atmosphere with Little to about 30 people pick eted postal station c on Corydon Avenue yesterday to protest its impending the station is scheduled to close july 24 and niemans located less than a Block East of the will take Over the service three Days really quiet Dale local president of the Canadian Union of postal said the closing will Hurt customer service and jeopardize but Canada Post claims the new location will provide better service through longer opening yesterday was the first Day Back to work for the 700 letter carriers and Drivers who walked off the Job for about 48 hours As part of a series of National rotating strikes by the letter carriers Union of i feel like in working in a funeral a 34yearold let Ter Carrier said after picking up mail from the downtown main Post supervisors Arent talking to us and everyone is really quiet and theres hardly any mail to id say there moving about 25 per cent of the regular were delivering Maga Zines and junk mail that was sup posed to be moved Days Canada Post spokesman Allan Skrumeda said mail volume was but refused to say by How Clark said management had asked inside workers if they wanted to take unpaid courier companies reported an other Busy Day saying there was As much extra business As during the today were still said Pat Mal a dispatcher at red River messenger and Transfer i guess people dont realize letter carriers have gone Back to Skrumeda said the Post office has let go the workers it hired to replace the striking but Lou president of the Winnipeg local of the letter carriers said a Canada Post manager told him replace ment workers of whom have had no Security clearance will be working overtime instead of letter since theres no negotiating going those Guys think they can bypass the contract and get scabs to work All of our Lech Man the unions old which expired said any overtime must be worked by its protesters March outside Corydon Avenue postal Winnipeg free june 1987 8 lobby group seeks end to monopoly on mail delivery Quality pays it Doest Cost garages Quality service material Only 14 x 22 x 24 first Quality material see our display pad built ready for stucco 20 x 22 pad built and stuck 14 x 22 20 x 22 phone for other sizes compare before you buy cottages 12601 13 Crews on staff and working prices in effect till june the celebrity 10 Garden Sheds on display what a selection easy to construct remade hoop trusses 8x8 floor from 179 package sales division of 1100 Springfield Tki Lcona Rjohn Deere Lawn i v i m Toronto up the National citizens coalition is trying to ring up support for a Campaign to end Canada posts monopoly on mail Deli David president of the conservative lobby said yesterday the organization is setting up a 900 Telephone line on which callers can ask that the Feder Al government open up the mail system to free we feel that canadians have been held hostage Long enough by violent strikes at the Post he told a news for the Post Competition is a and we feel the monopoly has gone on Long the group will be running advertisements across the country for the next two weeks that say the Canada Post corporation act makes it a crime punishable by up to five years in jail deliver letters unless competitors charge More than three times the Post office theres been no real Competition has been the ads for years weve suffered through High prices and inefficiency in our postal Somerville said his which claims has received Good reaction to the Campaign from the callers to the number must pay 50 cents per Call and can listen to a recorded message asking for donations to the Somerville said he will Tell Ottawa How Many Calls come untied quantities available at this Price 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