CUPW Negotiations: Talks grind to a halt with no movement on changes required for Canada Post’s future
November 26, 2024, 06:19 pm
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Canada Post is considering its options to move negotiations forward as talks with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have ground to a halt on key issues critical to the Corporation’s future.
The parties have been working with the assistance of a special mediator since November 18, but progress has been limited to minor items. Despite the current situation, we remain committed to the bargaining process.
Throughout these negotiations, Canada Post has put forward detailed proposals to bring more flexibility to its outdated, mail-based delivery model. These changes are necessary to better compete in the parcel business, better serve Canadians, and drive much-needed revenue growth.
However, after not responding over the past several days, CUPW has just informed us, through the special mediator, that it will not be responding at all.
Approximately 95 per cent of delivery teams are full-time
Employees and customers across the country are feeling the significant impacts of CUPW’s national strike, which is now on its 12th day. We had hoped the union would bring some much-needed urgency to the discussions. That has not been the case.
We have consistently put forward proposals that are critical for the future of the postal service and important to the Canadians we serve, while protecting our current employees. Our proposals would add a greater mix of part-time and full-time employees to our delivery model to respond to the daily variations in parcel volumes and provide weekend delivery.
Today, approximately 95 per cent of our delivery team is made up of full-time employees. Our approach would create new regular, permanent part-time jobs, providing greater opportunities for temporary employees to become permanent, with guaranteed hours, schedules and eligibility for health and pension benefits.
With losses of more than $3 billion since 2018 and a $315-million loss before tax in the third quarter of 2024, Canada Post requires negotiated agreements that let all employees focus on the future, without adding new fixed costs that will hamper its ability to compete.
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Enough is enough
posted from the urban side:
Gary
1 December 2024, 11:33 am
Hello everyone , I drafted a letter for concerned CUPW employees who want to return to work. Copy this letter and send it to the media, MP’s , labor ministers. Talking on here will not get us anywhere. This CUPW President and executives must go. We need change !
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Open Letter from Concerned CUPW Members: We Want to Return to Work
We, the undersigned members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), are writing to express our deep concern with the current direction of the strike and the leadership that is guiding it. Our voices, and the voices of many of our fellow workers, have been overshadowed by the decisions of a few individuals at the top of the union’s leadership. We believe that this strike is no longer serving the best interests of the majority of postal workers, and we urgently want to return to work.
This is not our strike. We want to work.
Many of us are standing on the picket lines not because we want to, but because we need the $56 daily allowance to help cover basic necessities like groceries. We are not out here by choice, but because we feel trapped in a situation that is being controlled by a small group of union executives and the CUPW president. Our livelihoods and the future of our jobs are at risk.
The future of Canada Post jobs is in jeopardy.
The decisions being made by the current leadership are putting the long-term future of jobs at Canada Post in danger. We believe that continued strikes, without a clear strategy for resolution, are only making it harder to return to stable, secure employment. The longer this continues, the greater the risk that Canada Post will be forced to make cuts, automate services, or find other means of filling the gaps left by our absence.
We need new leadership and a return to work before it’s too late.
The president of CUPW and the executive team must be held accountable for their decisions. They are supposed to represent us, the workers, but they are failing in that responsibility. We call for immediate changes within the leadership and a reconsideration of the current strike strategy. We cannot allow a small group to determine our future and continue to hold us back from doing our jobs.
We urge the public and the media to listen to our side.
We are reaching out to the public, media outlets, and elected officials to let them know how we feel. We want to return to work, but we are being held back. This is not about greed or unwillingness to negotiate; it’s about our desire to get back to doing what we do best – serving the Canadian public through our work at Canada Post.
We ask the media to help share our story and bring awareness to the situation. The current strike is not representative of all workers, and it is time for our voices to be heard.
We need action, not just words.
Talking amongst ourselves will not bring change. We need to reach out and make our voices heard by the people who can make a difference – the public, the media, and our elected representatives. We call on all CUPW members who feel the same way to join us in pushing for real change, and to demand that we return to work before it’s too late.
Not much about RSMC.
Most people only know about letter carriers.
We drive our own vehicles. Need to have working vehicles every day to perform our job. Need enough gas to perform our job. Need to have insurance that’s commercial to do our job. Need to have winter tires to perform our jobs.
Letter carriers just show up and they can work.
Again not much about RSMC. Never has been. Not even now with negotiating. Probably won’t ever.
You didn’t read the contract you signed for your position? You knew what your job entailed and signed the job offer anyways.
Remember, the door is not locked from the inside…
I hear ya. And thanks for being gentle with your words.
I just kinda thought and hoped after being with the company for 14 years maybe they would think of vehicles for us.
I guess not, they don’t think of vehicles for us like they do for letter carriers
Agree- that is why both groups should be one and every delivery driver uses a Canada Post vehicle for delivery
Haven’t heard anything about rural??? Why doesn’t that deal get signed at least.
CUPW is a joke
CUPW stalling and putting financial stress on the members, they don’t care.. They get full pay while we get peanuts and not paid on time, this is a joke
It’s only been two weeks! Relax!
Agreed
Check your Service Canada Accounts. I just did and an R.O.E. dated Nov. 25/24 was sitting there. Hard to believe it’s at this point but here we are.
What does that mean? Is that you have been laid off if so that you can still picket and get paid by the Union until the strike is over
All I want for Christmas is to go back to work and feed my family.
CUPW is a joke – if they can’t see the writing on the wall with the complete dropoff in volumes, time to decertify
Canada post is a public service not required to profit start acting that way instead of lining management’s pockets
EXACTLY! TOO top heavy with management getting bonuses. Is CPC just another money laundering operation for the corrupt government?
Corruption whenever too much money is involved.
Id like to see our union books, they are worth multi millions as well and just paying us peanuts….
Memo to CPC:
If you want my respect the management needs to have a réduction in your salary and bonuses. Maybe then you will understand better what we are fighting for!!
Why would you be mad at management for negotiating themselves a better deal. Find out who their negotiation team was, and hire them!
In what universe does that make sense?
People start a job at a certain wage. Once they reach the max they have 2 choices, be satisfied with their salary , or apply for a higher position. This includes you and all the others who are complaining. This is not specific to CPC, it’s all over the world. Might not be a choice you like but it is a choice.
Just merge RSMC into URBAN!!!
No, we’ve had enough of these negotiations about RSMC’S, separate the negotiations and get it over with.
I’ve been an RSMC for 20 years and DO NOT want to be an Urban carrier! Quit trying to make us be like them.
Agreed, who needs this mess CUPW has created for us.. Nothing but greed and selfish to us all and Canadians.
Agree
No
Agree
Hello Legislation…nice to see you AGAIN…NOT😡Always the same old story, has been for years…Oh and don’t forget our crappy arbitrated contract…what a waste of time as usual
Not this time
How come management is still receiving bonuses when you claim struggle bus? Notice they always say operational loses so that an investment in a plant and a fleet of vehicles shows as a loss. Forgetting to add that they could sell these items if they so badly need the money back they spent on them in the first place, or that they are still assets and count as capital just not liquid…
I am also looking for a part time job
We Ned help
Does anyone have a part time job for me until the strike ends?
Stop the strike
I don’t think the union is helping us
Union is delaying talks like usual, if you can’t get it done in 14 months it should automatically go arbitration.. No talks should last over a year, enough is enough
Does anyone know why the union is stalling and why?
hi ho hi ho off to work I go 🤞🏾
Are you working for Santa
I’m looking for a new job….
I support Canada post management taking a decrease in pay every time there is a restructure and employees have to do the same.
This sounds like CPC propaganda. Be careful what you believe when it’s posted on this site.
It’s a Canada Post site🙄CUPW won’t put one up…They don’t allow us to give opinions…
Look again CUPW does have a site
I support arbitration ✊🏾
Yes to CUPW solidarity Canada post you coward and bully