Occupation is part of Hamilton’s campaign to reverse Canada Post cuts by Evan JohnstonThe campaign to save Door-to-Door mail delivery is heating up in Hamilton. A coalition of union and non-union activists — led by members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers Local 548 — have been leading door-knocking efforts over the last year, Continue readingOne man’s sit-in to save door-to-door mail
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People across the country are organizing to save door-to-door home mail delivery. Canada Post’s outrageous elimination of home mail delivery despite the company’s profitability, is a Harper-approved blow against public services by Canada Post management. In London, Ontario, residents have established Londoners for Door to Door and are canvassing with postal workers to build support. Continue readingWeekend Video: Saving Door-to-Door Mail
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is holdings its convention this May 4-7 in Toronto. It is also the union’s 50th anniversary. CUPW was founded in 1965 by an incredible wildcat strike against an oppressive employer, horrible working conditions and a failed employee association. Fifty years later, the union is facing enormous challenges as Continue readingInterview with Mike Palecek, CUPW presidential candidate
by David Bush and Doug Nesbitt Fourteen months have passed since Canada Post announced its radical overhaul of the postal service. Canada Post is still sticking to its plans of eliminating home delivery across the country, cutting 8,000 jobs, jacking up prices, and closing sorting depots across the country. In fact, Canada Post has accelerated Continue readingThe Canada Post Fight: News Round-Up
By Wendy Goldsmith Words I remember as a child as I learned that (in the old days), the “letter carrier always comes”. Well over the past three weeks, I learned that letter carriers and other postal workers are true to their word. Together, concerned community members and postal workers in London Ontario have been going Continue readingLondoners for Door-to-Door
About a year just after the cuts to Canada Post were announced, Solidarity Against Austerity held a discussion about the proposed elimination of home mail delivery in Canada. The panelists make clear why this is a decision that is not being made in the public interest. The talk was held in Ottawa on January 26, 2014. Continue readingWeekend Video: Defending home mail delivery
We Deliver Canada is a campaign by CUPW Vancouver Local 846 in partnership with CauseComms: Communications for the Common Good. The CUPW Vancouver Local represents over three thousand postal workers in the cities of Vancouver, Richmond, Burnaby, North Vancouver City & District and West Vancouver. They have produced two videos in which postal workers share Continue readingWeekend Video: We Deliver Canada
By Mike Palecek Postal worker and National Union Representative of CUPW If postal workers ran the post office. If postal workers ran the post office, we would start by getting rid of thousands of people in management. The cadre of class-warriors Canada Post has employed to fight CUPW would get pink slips. If postal workers Continue readingIf postal workers ran the post office
By Patrick Colford On the evening of October 16, 40 people demonstrated outside the Dieppe Canada Post mailing process plant to protest mail leaving New Brunswick for sorting in Nova Scotia. The demonstration was organized by the Moncton Labour Council and the New Brunswick Federation of Labour and saw participation from the CLC, local unions, and other community allies who oppose the Continue readingWorkers picket Dieppe postal depot
On September 24, residents of Kanata, a suburb of Ottawa, gathered at a local sports bar to talk about the pending loss of door-to-door mail delivery to nearly 8,000 neighbourhood homes. The meeting featured speeches by: Trevor Haché, a resident of Kanata losing home mail delivery Geoff Bickerton, Research Director of the Canadian Union of Continue readingWeekend Video: Can We Save Home Mail Delivery?
by David Bush and Doug Nesbitt On Monday, October 20, the first deliveries to Canada Post’s new community mailboxes will take place. But the fight against the complete elimination of home delivery, job losses, and the preparation for Canada Post privatization are unfolding around the country. Today, the Canada Post sorting plant in Repentigny, Quebec Continue readingThe fight for Canada Post is escalating
By David Bush On Saturday September 20, hundreds of postal workers and their allies rallied outside of Conservative Finance Minister Joe Oliver’s constituency office in Toronto. The rally to Save Canada Post was organized by Socialist Action and endorsed by CUPW, CLC, OFL, the Toronto and York Region Labour Council and host of other national and Continue readingPostal workers take aim at the Conservatives