By Chloe Rockarts November 14, 2018 marks 1 year since the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) began negotiations with Canada Post Corporation. Across the country, postal workers are entering their second month of rotating strikes. Thousands of workers are striking over health and safety issues, exhaustive and unsustainable workload issues, and inequities between urban and Continue readingWhat postal workers are fighting for
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By Robert Devet Some 700 Canada Post workers, who provide mail service in the urban parts of HRM and from Lake Charlotte to Hubbards, walked off the job yesterday. The issues are about health and safety, workload in relation to on-the job injuries to postal workers, and equality between urban and rural letter carriers. The Continue readingHalifax postal workers hit the picket lines
Today on the show, Mike Palecek, the president for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. On Monday, October 22, CUPW commenced rotating 24 hour strikes across the country. CUPW has been at the bargaining table since November 2017. Michael Keefe writes at RankandFile.ca: “On September 7, after over 9 months of negotiations, Canada Post made Continue readingCUPW Pres Mike Palecek & James Hutt talk strikes & Delivering Community Power
By Michael Keefe Postal workers are on rotating strike. The reason postal workers are frustrated to the point of striking is because the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has been in negotiations with Canada Post since November 2017 with almost no progress at the negotiating table. In January, conciliators were appointed at the union’s Continue readingWhy we’re striking at Canada Post
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
By Susan O’Donnell After a long struggle between Canada Post and its largest union, an arbitration ruling will mean a pay raise for rural postal workers across the country, including 360 workers in New Brunswick, mostly women. The arbitration decision in early June recognized that pay inequities exist between the Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers Continue readingCUPW win for women’s rights moves closer to pay equity for rural postal workers
By Doug Nesbitt In 1987, Canada Post management began to unroll a major privatization drive of post offices and elimination of door-to-door delivery. The plan aimed to privatize 3,500 rural post offices and close another 1,700 over a decade. This would allow the company to slash 4,200 union jobs. Canada Post also announced that no new Continue readingNo Scab Mail Here: The 1987 postal strikes
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
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