By Michael Keefe I have worked at Canada Post for almost 34 years and I currently work at a Canada Post Corporate Outlet in Dartmouth. Whether you’re sending or receiving mail or parcels, you’re counting on our reliable and self-sustaining postal system for your family’s needs or your business. I’m one of the 50,000 people Continue readingLetter from a Postie: Building a better Canada Post for all
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By Wendy Goldsmith and Dylan Penner Humanity. Neighbourhoods. Compassion. Love. These are the driving forces behind Londoners for Door to Door and its recent resurgence to address yet another broken Liberal promise in the making. A decision is expected this Spring on whether the Liberal government will keep its promise to restore door-to-door mail Continue readingRestoring Door-to-Door delivery will take people power
By David Bush, Gerard Di Trolio, and Doug Nesbitt In early September the Canada Post Task Force, promised by Justin Trudeau during the last election to review the postal service’s future, released its discussion paper. The paper was the committee’s preliminary thoughts about the future of Canada Post based on stakeholder meetings, expert opinion and Continue readingKilling Canada Post: Trudeau’s Turn
Winnipeg, June 17, 2016 – Representatives of Friends of Public Services, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and Solidarity Winnipeg discuss how Canada Post could become the hub of a post-carbon economy. Speakers: Dru Jay – Friends of Public Services Basia Sokal – Canadian Union of Postal Workers Maya Martinez-Alper – Solidarity Winnipeg Sofia Soriano Continue readingWeekend Video: Delivering Community Power – Winnipeg
By Christo Aivalis Over the past months, the dispute between Canada Post (CP) and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has garnered attention, both for how a labour stoppage will effect Canadians, as well as how the current negotiations form a bellwether for the future of good jobs. But what has perhaps slipped to Continue readingWhy we need Postal Banking
By David Bush The negotiations between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have been underway for over eight months. The two parties are far apart on a number of issues: pay equity for Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers, the introduction of two-tier pensions, improving the short-term disability plan, and improving working conditions Continue readingThe crooked intentions of Canada Post
By Evert Hoogers, Donald Swartz, Rosemary Warskett A major confrontation is in the making at Canada Post. On the one hand, post office management is seeking to extract a series of far ranging concessions from its workers. On the other, those workers and their union, Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), are not simply prepared Continue readingPostal workers confront Canada Post: The struggle continues in 2016
Rankandfile.ca’s West Coast correspondent Daniel Tseghay interviews Megan Whitfield, President of Canadian Union of Postal Workers Local 626 in Toronto as well as Jennifer Savage, President of CUPW Local 846 in Vancouver about the CUPW strike vote an bargaining. Daniel also interviews Dru Oja Jay of Friends of Public Services about ideas to transform Canada Continue readingRankandfile.ca Podcast Episode #1: Canada Post negotiations and the future of the post office
By Robert Devet “It used to be almost every postal worker would walk their route,” says Tony Rogers, president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) Nova Local. “Postal workers would hop on a bus and make their deliveries. The lowest carbon footprint possible.” Now all but seven out of 200 routes in metro Continue readingA Postal Service for the 21st Century
By David Bush A 72 hour lockout notice has been issued by Canada Post. Here is what is really happening. Canada Post is refusing to bargain. They have only tabled one offer during negotiations and routinely issued misleading statements that the union is asking for $1 billion in demands. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers Continue readingCanada Post’s lockout is a sham
With Canada Post management pushing for a lockout or strike once more, it is worth remembering the long history of postal worker struggles. It has always been a physically-demanding job but it has only been made more difficult by a decades-long culture of management bullying and abuse. In 1965, postal workers had enough and launched Continue readingWeekend Video: The 1965 postal workers strike
by Doug Nesbitt and Dan Darrah With another lockout or strike looming at Canada Post, management is once again relying on huge amounts of public misinformation to turn the people against the postal workers, and sap confidence in our public postal service. Here are seven big myths about Canada Post that you’ll find repeated in Continue readingSeven myths about Canada Post