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Region to go ahead with LRT project
Local workers locked out in postal dispute
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orkers arriving at the Elmira post office Wednesday morning were turned away, locked out by Canada Post. The mail sitting in boxes waiting for carriers to deliver will continue to sit there pending a resolution of a dispute over wages, benefits and working conditions between the corporation and member of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). The move by Canada Post followed 12 days of rotating strikes across the country by the union representing some 54,000 postal workers. “We believe that a lockout
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aterloo Region’s urban residents face a tax hike of some 10 per cent over the next seven years to pay for transit, including the light-rail scheme approved Wednesday by regional council. Electric trains on dedicated lines linking Conestoga Mall in Waterloo and Fairview Park mall in Kitchener should be running by 2017. Fast buses will connect the Kitchener mall with the bus terminal in Galt. The plan will cost $818 million in direct costs, $565 million of which will come from the provincial and federal governments, leaving regional taxpayers on the hook for $253 million, plus ancillary costs including road improvements. Tax increases are to be phased in between 2012 and 2018, by which time the average homeowner will be paying an additional $113 a year in property taxes, based on an assessment of $254,000. Councillors voted 9-2 in favour of the project. Only Waterloo Mayor Brenda Halloran and Cambridge Coun. Claudette Millar voted against the proposal, with four members
HOLDING PATTERN Postal worker Irene Janzen stands outside the Elmira post office on Wednesday after Canada Post locked out its workers following 12 days of rotating strikes. Federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt’s office said that the federal government is now considering back-to-work legislation.
is the best way to bring a timely resolution to this impasse and force the union to seriously consider proposals that address the declining mail volumes and the $3.2-billion pension deficit,” Canada Post said in a release. What the corporation wants would create a twotier system, with new workers getting less than what more senior employees get, said John Wastell, president of CUPW Local 560, which represents postal workers in the area, including Elmira. “Canada Post wants to beat us down, take away our
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