CTV News: Hard to keep public support for striking Canada Post workers, experts say

Social media posts reflect the mixed opinions, with some people expressing frustration with the disruption and others proclaiming their support for striking postal workers.

Adam King, an assistant professor in the labour studies department at the University of Manitoba, said online discourse doesn’t tell the whole story.

“It takes very little effort to post a comment on a story, but it takes much more to show up to a picket line,” he said.

On the picket lines King has seen in Winnipeg, “CUPW has received lots of support,” he said, from the labour movement and the public.

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