The Criminalization of the Canadian Postal Strike and the Role of the Unions and NDP
Submitted on July 1, 2011
By Keith Jones - WSWS
Canada’s Conservative government used its newly acquired parliamentary majority to criminalize the anti-concessions struggle waged by Canada Post’s 48,000 urban letter carriers, mail sorters, and postal clerks. But the government had no need to mobilize the courts and police to enforce its savage strikebreaking law. That was done by the trade unions and their political allies in the New Democratic Party (NDP).
