After pension 'bombshell,' Carleton University, striking support workers to meet with mediator

Carleton and its striking support staff have agreed to a one-day meeting with an outside mediator.
But even as news of the planned Wednesday sitdown emerged, tensions were simmering Monday over what the workers’ union called bombshell revelations about the pension plan that’s at the heart of the now-four-week-old strike.
The union local representing the roughly 850 striking says a review of amendments made to the plan has uncovered some “subtle manipulations” dating