Killing Canada Post
In 1965, Canada’s postal workers did something so radical, so unprecedented, that it shook our country’s political establishment to the core.
They went on strike.
It was radical and unprecedented because up until then public employees had no right to walk off the job. But for two weeks, postal workers conducted an illegal wildcat action which, by the end of it, saw them winning the right to strike for almost all government workers.
Over the next few decades, you’d see the same pattern time and time again. In the 1970s, union leaders were jailed for defying back-to-work legislation. And in…
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