CUPW negotiations: CUPW’s latest offer takes major steps backwards
December 9, 2024, 06:47 pm
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Canada Post has received the latest offers from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) and is extremely disappointed that their intent appears to be to widen the gap in negotiations, rather than close it.
We are conducting a full review of the offers for the Urban and RSMC (Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers) bargaining units and will share more information as soon as possible. However, we don’t want to provide false hope to impacted employees, small businesses, charities and northern communities that were hoping for a speedy resolution. In the last few weeks, Canada Post has made several important moves to close the gap and reach negotiated agreements, but the union has reverted to their previous positions or increased their demands.
Our core business is delivery. While postal services around the world are working constructively to evolve their delivery approach to respond to changing customer needs, CUPW’s demands reinforce the status quo and add significant and unsustainable long-term fixed costs. One example is continuing to demand that our facility cleaning staff and other contracted support services become permanent Canada Post employees.
Our deteriorating financial situation
Canada Post is at a critical juncture in its history. With financial pressures mounting and now accelerating with CUPW’s ongoing strike, our long-standing role as a vital, publicly owned national infrastructure for Canadians and Canadian businesses is under significant threat.
Canada Post will record another significant loss in 2024, the seventh consecutive annual loss for the Corporation. Since 2018, the company has lost more than $3 billion.
A fair approach focused on our future
Our approach throughout negotiations has been fair, balanced and straightforward, bringing much-needed flexibility to our delivery model to improve service for Canadians and grow our parcel business, while protecting and valuing all our employees who provide that service.
While the specifics of what we’ve offered remain in the confidential process, our focus has remained on the following:
Focused on the needs of our customers:
- Changes to our mail-based delivery model that would allow for affordable and reliable weekend delivery and other improvements.
- Maintaining our largely full-time delivery workforce while creating weekend part-time positions – providing benefits, guaranteed hours and opportunities for temporary employees.
Focused on providing good jobs for our people, building on what they already have:
- Wage increases above our previous offers.
- Providing good pensions for retirement.
- Maintaining up to seven weeks of vacation and 13 personal days.
- Maintaining stringent job security provisions.
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Enjoy unemployment all, CUPW begging to be forced back because they screwed negotiations up again trying to profit bringing outside workers in on our negotiations.. Justice Janitors union and gig workers, all got blown up in their faces because Canada Post done playing games, it’s not about the membership anymore, it’s about CUPW bringing contractors in to get more union dues. They played everyone for fools and are begging people to email minister of labor to get our jobs back.. CUPW got caught lying in their demands and cost us loser earned wages, and I’m sure we will lose annual time off work as well, congratulations CUPW you fooled us, but thankfully the corporation exposed you to us all..
https://gigworkersunited.ca/
I read the summary of “demands” presented by the CUPW union yesterday … and just in terms of wages, at 9%, 4%, 3%, 3% (19%) over 4 years … this seems unrealistic. I feel greatly for the families where mom and dad both work for CPC. I feel even more for those dual income families where they may have children or dependents with significant health and medical needs since access to benefits, even medications, has been suspended since November 14.
HOWEVER, in October, after annual audits were completed, and because of the decline in volumes of everything we deliver, my salary dropped by about 5%. This was a common experience with my colleagues.
This strike, going into its fourth week, means I am close to losing 20 working days of income. That’s about another 8%.
Given the above union demands, having already lost 13% this year, the corporation is only being asked to replace what has has either already deducted (since October) plus what has not had to pay out in wages, these past four weeks. They get the next two years to make up for these shortfalls.
If they actually acquiesce (cave in) and agree to this demand alone, workers will not actually recoup what they have already and are continuing to lose in terms of take home (after tax/deductions) income until the end of 2026.
In real terms, by December 2026 or even January 2027, workers will only be earring the same as what they had in income in September of 2024.
Meanwhile, the cost of living, inflation etc. … keeps on going.
I wish people in power here (on both sides) would stop obsfuscating (making murky/dark) and simply spell out the real facts …
Too many people round the negotiating/bargaining table are blinded by their own self-interest, hampered by their own complete ineptitude, and tone deaf to public opinion.
CUPW if you’re not interested in any kind of compromise then get someone else in there. By the time a deal is reached we will lose most of retro pay to taxes!! How is that helping us? In three years we’ll be going through all this nonsense again!
Make a deal already. CPC is just sitting on their hands waiting for the Government to bail them out of this situation. If you have HONESTY lost that much money in
the last few years then you need to fire people at the top and STOP giving them bonuses!! You are all heartless crooks. Those people on the picket lines are the back bone of your company and you are treating them like garbage. How do you sleep at night??
We sleep well knowing CUPW is screwing us all, when is the union going to cost all the offers so we can see who’s really the bad people..? CUPW execs make same money as CPC, don’t kid yourself..
Rock and Roll Tracy! 🏒🥅