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OTTAWA (Reuters)-Canadians could start receiving mail again within two days after the Senate on Sunday approved the legislation back to the job that ends the dispute that shut down the postal service.
The Senate held a rare weekend session to approve the decision of the Government which was approved by the House of Commons on Saturday after 58 opposition filibustering MPs who said the Bill was unfair to workers.
Canada Post almost 48,000 workers blocked 15 June after more than a week of strikes, which the company said it had caused the mail delivery to drop by almost 50 percent.
The Conservative Government said it had no choice but to intervene because they had contract negotiations between the company and the Union, and a prolonged dispute proposed a threat to the national economy.
Mail deliveries could resume Tuesday, officials said.
The Canadian Union of postal workers said his members will return to work as ordered, but warned that the order does not solve the problems that lead to the dispute. It can challenge the law in court.
In addition to wages and pensions, the company and the Union are at loggerheads about how the system should adjust to technological changes that customers saw drop the mail in favor of writing e-mail messages and using the Internet to pay bills.
The legislation provides for an arbitrator to choose between the offers made by the Union or Canada Post, but includes a controversial measure which sets the increase of pay, unless the company had offered the Union.
If the arbitrator accepts the offer of Canada Post, the company would also offer lower salaries for new hires, pensions and holiday of its existing workers now earn.
(Reporting by editing Allan Dowd, Anthony Boadle)
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