CUPW announces national strike
November 15, 2024, 01:47 am
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The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has announced it intends to begin a national strike on Friday, November 15 at 12:01 a.m. ET.
Canada Post’s operations will shut down during a national strike, affecting millions of Canadians and businesses across the country.
What to expect during a national strike
Mail and parcels will not be processed or delivered for the duration of the national strike, and some post offices will be closed. Service guarantees will be impacted for items already in the postal network. No new items will be accepted until the national disruption is over.
All mail and parcels in the postal network will be secured and delivered as quickly as possible on a first-in, first-out basis once operations resume. However, a national strike of any length will impact service to Canadians well after the strike activity ends. Processing and delivery may take some time to fully return to normal.
Keeping you informed
- Visit our website for the latest information on negotiations and for updates on locations with strike activity.
- Please also watch for future HO Comms about any important developments.
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If someone would take over letter mail – we could eliminate the use for Canada Post anyways! Other carriers are set up to service mail across Canada. FedEx or Puralator would need to set up a pick up location for rural customers, like a post office with postal boxes 😉 but I think they could probably find someone to partner with in all the communities for letter mail! Just a thought.
TBH, I would support them if they would process the parcels that were already in their system.
Lots of us in urban areas have other options for parcels. The issue many of us have is that we have parcels that were already send and are being held until the strike is over. You should have ensured that you provided the service people had already paid for before you went on strike. While you continue this, people are finding other companies who don’t go on strike and do their job, and they won’t use Canada Post for parcel deliveries as you are showing you cannot be counted on. For those of us waiting for items that were in transit before the strike started, we are basically screwed until the strike is over. In either case, for a company already running a deficit, you are shooting yourselves in the foot so to speak.
Exactly, just go to the food bank and accept that a federal government job in 2024 can’t pay BOTH food AND RENT, Duh?!?!?!?
I havent used the Post Office for 10 years I sent a very important document to the Philippines on Thursday November 14th. I told the clerk i need the fastest, safest way to get the package there..why could’nt she say “Sir there is a possibilty of a Strike if the documents are so important you should use UPS or some other carrier” at the very least post a sign that I would be using their postal services with a risk., I chose Canada Post because i thought it would be the best and safest. Never again will I use Canada Post.
The inconsideration is high when it comes to Canada post. I think these unions forget that we the people are the ones that pay to have the services of Canada post, going on strike before a huge holiday doesn’t look good for Canada post. A lot of people are going to boycott this company in the future. If I am placing orders and find out the seller uses Canada post as its postal provider I will request a different carrier, if that is not an option I will cancel the order and find the products else where with a more reliable carrier. I feel that many others will now be doing the same. I also hope that the citizens open a class action law suit against Canada post for the disruption of mail. Some items are priority mail, especially those who rely on Canada post for medical care deliveries. And on top of the inconsiderate caused by Canada post, they also are creating more work for themselves, because they are going to have a massive backup of mail deliveries to catch up on, causing them to work overtime and weekends to catch up on mail services. This company should be called Air heads Post, since that’s all that seems to work for this postal service company.
Wrong. Wrong. WRONG. THIS SERVICE IS FREE TO CANADIAN CITIZENS.
Not when the government bails you out which has happened before. That is on the taxpayers.
The “people” don’t pay a single cent toward Canada Post. The whole tax payer pays our salaries is completely false. A quick research or google search could have helped before going on here with a rediculous rant.
I believe you are misreading the original comment, I believe they may be referring to the cost to send a parcel, a card or letter
Exactly, just go to the food bank and accept that a federal government job in 2024 can’t pay BOTH food AND RENT, Duh?!?!?!?
I can’t seem to find specifics on what the union wants anywhere? I am curious, so if someone could enlighten me?
Go to the CUPW site.
Just downloaded the 620 page collective agreement. How can Canada Post even operate with this shackle around it’s neck. Why is this Union on strike, most people would have been very well off with status quo. 22 percent raise when most letter carriers are making almost $30 an hour plus benefits. Are you kidding me. Privatize and show this group the real world. No sympathy for their tough life from the general public.
Agreed
Congradulations it would appear public opinion is very much against you. Shut the Post Office down, no one needs it anymore. And you push Postal Banking, who wants there bank on strike, get with the times it’s not 1970 anymore, most people are losing $200 a day. Never get that money back. I keep hearing how hard done by your members are and yet every picture that has a vehicle in is new and better than mine. High school education does not get you a Tesla, give your head a shake.
Why? Because you’re one of a minority commenting against it? Leave your house, there’s a whole world outside those four walls that don’t involve social media posts. Perhaps apply, carry the mail, and you too can drive one of those shiny new vehicles. But then you’d have to leave the house every day. You’ll find out quickly that it’s a hard job and that most people like posties!
Wrong
Most people actually support the postal workers and the post office in general
Canada Post let CUPW run the show for decades and this is where it brought us. Besides the fact that they need to get ride of A LOT of people hire up (management and directors) because they are one more worse then the other. That being said, CUPW needs a reality check. There employees have no responsibility and the majority do not even have a high school diploma but yet want to be paid 35/hour and more. They are the only ones left at CP with the Defined Benefit pension, FULLY PAID LUNCHES, finishing 5 minutes before the end of your shift PAID just to stand at the punch clock and the list goes on. I wished that Canada Post would have locked them out and stuck with it, it is about time CP gains control of there company. I agree CUPW workers should get a raise but not at what they are asking.
“No responsibilities” … these are people with direct access to highly confidential information every single day and are trusted to deliver the public’s important correspondence, credit cards, passports – the list goes on. I certainly hope that you’ve never been struggling enough in your lifetime to have had an assistance cheque of some kind delivered to you by a CUPW member. What do you do for a living? Would you or COULD you ever do their job? Would you be willing? I’d love to know.
I do not want to picket? Do I have to
Why can’t I picket at a time more convenient to me?
You can picket when you want but not get paid for the messily ~$56.
$750 million loss last year, nearly $2 billion since the last strike… I’d like to see a private corporation survive like that. Maybe it’s time to restructure from the ground up. Government workers should not be paid more than their private sector counterparts… you have great pensions that are basically non-existent in the private sector anymore because it’s unrealistic to support it… want more money, lose you pensions like the rest society… don’t want to do that? Stop crying.
That would be better. Private sector counterparts have higher wages and safer work environments.
What exactly is unsafe about working for Canada Post?
Are you sure Amazon is better? Benefit + Pay 😆
Well stated!
Management has a great deal of blame to take in this matter. Poorly managed. Too much red tape. How the entire Management Team can stay in their position despite the company lose 3 billion dollars since 2018 is beyond me…. This wouldn’t happen in the private sector. And they’ve been awarding themselves bonuses with this kind of result…. Where is the logic in that?!?! We lost 748 million last year…. “Here’s a bonus, well done!”
Bonuses are part of Management contracts. If they meet certain criteria. When they don’t they receive little or no compensation. The Union employees were offered the same but declined. Stop whining about the bonuses. The Union knows that if CUPW had performance bonuses they would need half as many people since productivity would soar, instead of the intimidation and harassment of the Union leaders making employees slow down.
Well it happened! I blame BOTH parties equally- CPC for stalling from the global offer end, and the union from not budging from unrealistic demands
It is obvious that yet again, the parties cannot come to a negotiated settlement, so we need arbitration ASAP!
Lets face it, based on previous history, arbitration has never been kind to us!
Hope this fiasco is taken care of soon, as in 72 hours soon!
One mans opinion
I will not leave any comment or submit anything
Way to go CUPW, now we lose out on any chance of a decent offer as we will get legislated back to work. Great job on repeating history.
Don’t worry, you won’t get ordered back. Your no longer a essential service. My bills come by email, money comes by e-transfer and I don’t want your flyers so that leaves parcels which 4 companies do better than you. You will be Luckey to even have a job in a years time because of your Union.
This. Employees still think we can compete with the others (Intelcom, UPS, etc..) under this kind of condition. They need a reality check.
Wow, after losing 3 billion since the 2018 strike, after increasing the rates to try to catch up, they l went from almost 65% market share to 30% and dropping daily, it is just not possible
Let’s hope they still need 55000 postal workers, no parcels to move = no work
no good for nothing lazy over payed workers greedy People it never ends Canada Post should fire all your lazy people greedy scab workers
Huh
You don’t even make sense
Go back to bed
Your cheque will still be delivered
There is definitely bad actors who abuse the system because they are in the union but not everyone is same. Some employees do work hard for a change but without accountability and cooperation from the field, you cannot change a company.
Payed..lol
You left us no choice, with the unreasonable concessions at the bargaining table and threats of cutting std, layoffs, etc.
When private companies lose double digit market share and 3 billion dollars over 3 years, they have to start cutting costs , layoffs are inevitable, not sure what the posties don’t understand,
I have noticed in the last few years your service has dropped. I was home waiting for a package, the tracking showed out for delivery. I saw the carrier pull up to my community mailbox, leaving a card for pick up at the post office rather than walking to my door with my parcel, not sure if it is pure laziness or if he gets to go home early when he cards all parcels for delivery rather than taking the time to do their job.
This activity happens more often than not.
It’s Pretty nice When you can work a 4-5 hour day and take home a full days wage and benefits . You don’t have the public support you may think you have.
I’ve had this same encounter except he came right to my door, didn’t knock, put a card in my mailbox and then left. He tried it again weeks later but I caught him returning to his truck. He said he knocked and nobody answered. We both knew he didn’t. These clowns are going to find out the hard way that you can’t take blood from a stone. I believe we are witnessing the death of Canada post. You cannot run a business with a perpetual deficit. Be happy you still have a job for now.
I truly hope that this strike shall be fruitful.
Maybe the employer should stop pay millions in bonus and start bargaining
Show up to workplace and walk the picket line regardless of your assigned times.
Dress warm and not like a slob with a stain on your jacket and Slurpee at hand.
We are not striking to support CUPW union executives who got us into this mess.
We are striking in solidarity of our fellow brothers and sisters to show Canada Post we mean business.
Canada Post needs to give us a fair and proper contract, not the pathetic offer they put on the table.
Even if they withdraw their offer at 8:01 AM EST it will be brought back on the table and compared with CUPW’s offer by an arbitrator.
Nice try on the scare tactics Canada Post.
🤞This gets resolved by Monday if and when the government legislates us back to work.
Thank you Teamsters for your support.
Mutually assured destruction. Either blink and stop trying to take stuff from us or go down in flames. The choice is yours Canada Post…
Great comment
Perhaps you will all go down in flames
Your service to the door is subpar at best
Other carriers have surpassed your level of service
That one is on you,
CUPW has now encouraged more and more Canadians to switch to on line killing more jobs.
Congratulations!