Canada Post workers strike nationwide after mandate changes

Ottawa — Postal workers represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers began a nationwide strike last week after the federal government announced sweeping changes to Canada Post’s mandate, including an end to daily door-to-door delivery and a push to move millions of households to community mailboxes. The dispute has halted routine mail services across the country and intensified nearly two years of stalled contract talks between the Crown corporation and its workers.

Canada Post said it has sent revised offers to the union that mirror many terms from a final proposal made in May, including a 13.59 percent compounded wage increase over four years. The company removed a previously offered signing bonus and added provisions to support a planned transformation of the postal service announced by the government. Those provisions include a temporary suspension of certain job security terms, lifting a moratorium on the potential closure of 493 corporate post offices, and voluntary departure incentives of up to 78 weeks of base pay, with layoffs to be used only if attrition and voluntary departures do not meet reduction targets.

The government’s measures, which officials say...