Canada Post back-to-work bill heads to Senate

CBC News  Posted:Jun 26, 2011

Mail service could resume across Canada within days as the Conservative government's legislation to end the labour dispute at Canada Post headed to the Senate on Sunday for approval.
The Conservative bill ordering 48,000 postal employees back to work cleared the House of Commons on Saturday night after a 58-hour NDP filibuster and several failed opposition efforts to win changes.  The House gave third reading to the bill shortly after 8 p.m. by a vote of 158-113 and then adjourned for summer.  The bill, which imposes a four-year contract and certain wage increases on the workers, is expected to pass quickly through the Conservative-dominated Senate, which has been called to sit at 11 a.m. ET on Sunday.