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Fort St. John postal workers join rotating strikes

CUPW local 738 president Babe Seguin confirmed postal workers in Fort St. John switched to rotating strikes on Tuesday morning, October 28th.

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Local CUPW 738 postal workers walked off the job on September 25th. (Ed Hitchins, Energeticcity.ca)

FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — After declaring indefinite strike action for more than a month, Canada Post workers in Fort St. John have now joined the nationwide list of rotating strikes.

Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) local chapter 738 president Babe Seguin confirmed the switch to rotating strikes to Energeticcity.ca as of 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, October 28th.

The change signals an end to a complete shutdown of the service in Fort St. John.

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CUPW initiated job action in late September, following the union’s assertion that the federal minister of government transformation, public works and procurement, Joël Lightbound, was planning to make “massive changes” to the government’s mandate for the Crown service, including “huge cutbacks to the public.”

While rotating strikes were initiated nationwide earlier in October, Fort St. John postal workers had continued daily picketing until Tuesday morning.

Energeticcity.ca will update this story as more information becomes available about CUPW’s schedule for strikes moving forward.

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Ed Hitchins

A guy who found his calling later in life, Edward Hitchins is a professional storyteller with a colourful and extensive history.

Beginning his journey into journalism in 2012 at Seneca College, Edward also graduated from Humber College with an Advanced Diploma in Print and Broadcast Journalism in 2018.  After time off from his career and venturing into other vocations, he started his career proper in 2022 in Campbell River, B.C.

Edward was attracted to the position of Indigenous Voices reporter with Energeticcity as a challenge.  Having not been around First Nations for the majority of his life, he hopes to learn about their culture through meaningful conversations while properly telling their stories. 

In a way, he hopes this position will allow both himself and Energeticcity to grow as a collective unit as his career moves forward and evolves into the next step.

He looks forward to growing both as a reporter and as a human being while being posted in Fort St. John.

This reporting position has been funded by the Government of Canada and the Local Journalism Initiative.

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