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OTTAWA (Reuters)-Canadian mail should start moving again on Tuesday, with postal workers from being forced to work widely debated legislation that passed the House of Commons on Saturday night.
Left the new Democratic Party had held the Bill with 58 exhausting hours of day and night debate but it finally made it through the House and now heads a special Sunday session of the Senate, where its passage is assured because of the ruling conservative domination of the upper House.
"After a delay, however, are completely useless, that very soon new Canadians will have access to their mail," Minister conservative Stephen Harper, whose party made the Bill, said outside the House.
Most members of Parliament-including Harper sometimes-had to sleep in their offices to avoid missing a crucial vote during day 2-1/2. Some played board games or strummed guitars in lounges, when they weren't speaking or sleep.
The Government expects the Bill to become law on Sunday afternoon and postal employees would return to work 24 hours later, said Harper's Press Secretary Andrew MacDougall. The first day of Mail service resumed later on Tuesday.
Postal workers had begun rolling hits the 3 June in a contract dispute with Canada Post, state the primary postal operator in the country. That has led to a block on 15 June that shut down the mail service.
The Bill provides for an arbitrator to collect or best offer final Union or Canada Post. The most controversial legislation sets pay increases that are smaller than Canada Post had offered, even if they match up with another public sector Union.
If your offer has been accepted by the arbitrator, Canada Post would be able to offer new hires less generous salaries, pensions and holiday, providing great savings. Experienced employees get currently seven weeks of vacation leave and substantial.
In an age of email and electronic bill payments, Canada Post says it needs to cut spending in order to be competitive, particularly with courier companies.
The Canadian Union of postal workers, representing 48,000 urban workers, says that the company is still viable and that unfair management demanded concessions in wages, the staffing and security.
"The Government is clearly willing to side with employers to grind the wages and working conditions", Denis Lemelin, President of the Union, said in a statement.
"The Conservatives have proven to be very anti-labour aims after only two months of majority government."
A survey this month showed that 70 percent of Canadians supported legislation to force an end to the work stoppage.
(Edited by Paul Simao)
