Protesters occupy Baird’s office in postal dispute

Ottawa police look in on protesters who occupied MP John Baird’s offices on Carling Avenue Thursday in sympathy with locked-out postal workers.

The Ottawa Citizen:

Ottawa — Protesters have occupied federal MP John Baird’s constituency office on Carling Avenue in sympathy with locked-out postal workers.

The group say they aren’t members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, who began rotating strikes against Canada Post before management locked the union out, but are sympathetic to their fight.

“The contract Harper wants to force on CUPW will shortchange postal workers even more than Canada Post would have,” says protester James Meades in a written statement announcing the occupation.

“By passing back-to-work legislation, the Harper government is attacking every worker in the country, both private and public, union and non-union.

Earlier Wednesday, the NDP said the party is ready to use every trick in the book to delay passage of back-to-work legislation, and help ensure locked-out Canada Post employees have as much time as possible to negotiate a settlement with their managers.

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