Canada Post talked up impacts of 2011 dispute, says union

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A year on from the Canadian government ordering Canada Post back to work after its month-long industrial action, Canada Post has been accused of exaggerating the financial impacts from the disruption.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers issued a white paper today claiming that Canada Post and key business lobby groups gave “wildly inflated estimates” of postal losses, volume reductions and job losses in the economy at large following the strikes and lockout last June.

The union said the exaggerations were politically motivated, to attack workers’ collective bargaining rights....

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