Labour disputes hit Canada Post and Air Canada

Businesses and travellers both dealt with the fallout of labour disputes in 2025.

Canada Post workers abruptly walked off the job and set up picket lines across the country on Sept. 25, leaving federal officials and businesses scrambling.

That announcement came just hours after the federal government gave Canada Post the green light to significantly pull back on mail delivery service over the span of a few years.

We first got word of a tentative deal been Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUP-W) on Nov. 21 after nearly a year of on again, off again strikes.

“I’ve been here 15 years now, and I’ve only seen about a six per cent increase over that time,” CUP-W’s Bryan Schuck told The Leader Spirit while he was on the picket line in September.

“We’re not looking to get rich, we’re looking to survive.”

The striking postal workers didn’t get much sympathy from groups like the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, with president Dan Kelly saying it was an incredibly challenging situation for those small businesses that were not expecting another strike.

Air travellers were also impacted by strikes this year. In mid-August, roughly 10,000 unionized flight attendants walked off the job in a labour dispute with their employer.