Understanding the offer: Load leveling
June 25, 2025, 04:10 pm
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Canada Post is providing employees with the information they need to make an informed choice when it comes time to vote on the company’s final offers to CUPW.
New information on the offers website
We’ve added new information to the offers site at canadapost.ca/offers:
- Did you know load leveling will not change a route holder’s schedule or the volume assessment for their route? Your scheduled hours of work won’t change, and the reassignment of work will not affect the annual volume assessment of your route.
- Route holders will continue to deliver on their route. Under load leveling, you will continue to have the same route and start times day-to-day, and work out of the same facility.
About the vote
As a CUPW-represented employee, you will have the opportunity to vote on the offer for your bargaining unit. If approved, the offer would become your new collective agreement.
This comes after a year and a half of discussions with CUPW, the assistance of established mediators, four global offers and an Industrial Inquiry Commission hearing and report. This vote gives employees the opportunity to have a voice, especially as we begin to implement needed changes for the postal system.
The vote will be conducted by the Canada Industrial Relations Board. We will share information about when and how to vote as soon as it’s available.
More information
- Visit canadapost.ca/offers to learn about the offer for the RSMC unit.
- Read the full contractual language of the offer for the RSMC bargaining unit.
Stay informed
Stay tuned for further updates. On the Negotiations Hub, sign up for email updates directly to your inbox.
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Don’t mention names, ok, any CEO of any company that lost that much money would be fired, not receive bonuses… Canadians should be outraged more than any other feelings they have about the post office. You have all been deceived by any sense of proper management by your government. I am a Canada Post employee, of 22 years. I think the union and the corporation both deserve failing grades. Both are greedy, both care only about money. Both are good suckers. The post office needs to evolve, and I know it, and any employee should know it, the union knows it.. This solution must start with the termination of the CEO, we should all demand it.
I love the language. “CUPW-represented workers will have the OPPORTUNITY to vote…” as if this “oPpOrTuNiTy” weren’t forced upon us by a government who caved to the desperate desires of yet another hyper-capitalist board of directors who sit at the head of a PUBLIC SERVICE.
The corp hasn’t bargained fairly in the entire year and a half that this has been going on. They’ve begged the government for intervention to AVOID having to bargain fairly. When CUPW offered to bring this all to arbitration (which is something typically viewed as yet another stripping of workers’ rights), the corporation still refused because they know that an arbitrator will not allow the corporation to implement the myriad job-destroying and service-enshittifying changes that they do desperately want to implement on the backs of its own workers.
Easiest NO vote of my life.
First thing to ask yourself is
Have you been treated fairly over the years and do you want to give management total power?
Next there is no raise or increase for letter carriers as we will lose more money from the flyers then we gain, doesn’t make sense, do the math.
Finally once Canada Post and the government get away with this obvious manipulation of the system, kiss everything goodbye in the next contract. Next are inside workers!!!
Don’t be foolish, it’s your future you are voting for.
Just a observation but other companies start and stop way beyond 8 hours get less benefits and do less complaining at a lower rate of pay . In this new digital age I think having a good paying job with great benefits and only 8 hours a day why look a gift horse in the mouth greed will be no job
No one else in Canada does what we do! The comments here are from mgmt.
Its my opinion is that our union reps are getting beat up too much by the people that they are trying to protect… US. The person who wrote at 314 am is right about picking up slack on other routes if your done your own early, in actual you are losing money because you are not getting paid for work that you cannot refuse. There are also other very important issues aside from just that. The reps are the ones sitting at the table dealing with all of it. Im not saying that you shuold be voting NO or YES but evryone should really read the whole agreement before making a decission
Hi there,
I have a concern about the load leveling, it I’m on a route and the schedule A says it’s 7.25 hrs but I’m done in 5 hrs will you be making me do additional work when I return namely the 2.25 hrs or will I be allowed to go home.
Thanks
You work for 7.25 hours, its as simple as that and nothing wrong
Don’t forget that the reason you are done before the measurement time is likely more to do with the fact that you are good at your job and know your route well. That’s because of your work and your time and Canada Post doesn’t get to punish you for that or make you think it’s not valuable to have strong knowledge of your route. Does a casual finish in 5 hours? Would a supervisor?
If they want that time they damn well better be prepared to pay for it.
oh boy we might have to work whole 8 hours like most Canadian workers
Nobody else in Canada does what we do!
No one else in Canada does what we do!
Work 5 hours and get paid first 8 hours? Yes you are correct nobody else gets that.
I notice that there is an omission about the load leveling suggested in the new contract, it doesn’t mention that your route measurements won’t change because you will be forced to do portions of *other carriers* routes when assigned arbitrarily by managers on any given day. Thereby not affecting your personal route numbers but certainly affecting your workload for the day, with no additional pay. Please be clear.
Where is the *Full contractual language* for the urban offer?
https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/doc/en/news-and-media/cpc-global-offer-urban-bargaining-unit.pdf
Seems straight forward. Makes sense that the RSMC’s won’t have to deal with dynamic routing. I am just glad that we will EVENTUALLY be allowed to vote. The union should have allowed us to vote instead of the government having to make that decision for them ! Guess what CUPW ? The members of this union are not stupid and we are quite capable of making an informed decision for ourselves so quit trying to bully us !
Hmmm. So based on the load leveling proposal there will never be any overtime for full time RSMC route holders. Well, considering I can’t remember the last time I had overtime I don’t really see this as an issue. So where is all the doom and gloom that the union reps keep telling us about load levelling reducing our income by 30%. Seems to me someone is trying to convcince us the sky is falling.
lol, totally agree
A bunch of C. P. management puppets with their propaganda on here trying to get you to vote yes.