CUPW negotiations: Focused on securing our future

Can someone explain to me how a company loses $3billion in 6 years and the entire upper management team still has a job? Never mind still keeping their position but getting bonuses on top of that yet a carrier redboxes a couple letters and gets suspended. Mind blowing to say the least. Any other company that lost $3billion in 6years would have a top down restructure guaranteed. Didnt anyone sound alarm bells when the first billion was lost? Didnt anyone try putting together a plan to stop the financial bleeding? In my view…CPCs financial mess falls solely on CPC upper management. CUPW members just recently received a letter from CPC stating the financial mess that they are in and (if you read between the lines) it sounds that they are preparing CUPW members for a ridiculous offer that they expect us to ratify. In closing…do not be fooled by the propaganda that CPC is pedalling. Be prepared for a lockout sometime around the beginning of November then be legislated back to work a couple weeks later. It will be a tuff 2weeks for CUPW members no doubt. CPC will try to divide us but brothers and sisters, this is where we must all stick together and show CPC that we will not take the responsibility of their financial mismanagement. Peace to all

I have yet to see anything resembling a comprehensive offer, did I miss that ?! My understanding is that CPC has made zero wage offers to this point. CPC please get serious about negotiations and stop expecting the government to bail out YOUR mismanagement. The flexibility you keep begging for is a simple fix…create jobs and positions in those areas and see how fast the union comes on board. Continually asking front line employees for concessions is not a sound plan !!!

Cupw get a bonus for neighborhood mail. Should be zero.

STEADY. STEADY. STEADY

HOLD. HOLD. HOLD

UNITY. UNITY UNITY

Amazon hikes wages for contract delivery drivers as union pressures grow
PUBLISHED THU, SEP 12 20242:39 PM EDTUPDATED THU, SEP 12 20243:17 PM EDT
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Annie Palmer
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Amazon is hiking its average national pay for contracted delivery drivers to roughly $22 an hour, up from $20.50 an hour.
The increased rates will support Amazon’s delivery-service partners “in their efforts to recruit and retain high-performing teams,” the company wrote in a blog post.
It comes as Amazon faces a renewed unionization effort among its delivery workers.

JEFF BEZOZ took BILLION$ and ran
employees left holding Amazon together

It’s disingenuous for Canada Post to post these very vague demands brought to public.
There is no disclosure to the public of why Canada Post is not as profitable as it would like to.
1- Lets start by within 2 years the CEO declined our parcel margins from 69% to 29% of profit share. The front line employees delivered that profit share & CPC CEO sabotaged it.
2- CPC has been increasing supervisory, middle management & upper management positions. Positions that require NO education other than a GED yet pay $$80,000+ per year.
3- CPC places incentive bonuses on NOT reporting injuries or work place incidents
4- CPC paid ALL Supervisory, middle management and upper management “hazard pay bonuses” but did not offer 1 penny to its 65,000 front line workers.
5- Canada Post has stopped serving communities, closing Rural Post Offices, creating a 1-800 number to call , local communities cannot even contact the local post office by way of phone- bcs Canada Post isn’t community minded.
6- CPC should disclose the costs each year spent on grievance resolution because they blatantly violate workers rights under the collective agreement and Labour Code and have instead flooded the workplaces with Supervisors and managers whom harass, bully, belittle and discriminate against the front line employees.
7- Canada Post has wiggled out of employer portion to pension contribution , yet handed out bonuses.
8- Canada Post always cries broke at negotiations , but is never honest and has relied on having the federal government to intervine undermining the negotiations process by law.
9- Canada Post supervisors violate “conflict of interest Policy “ on a daily basis – yet are never held accountable.
10- Canada Post supervisors stalk employees and EX employees and harass them out in their communities.
11- Canada Post NEEDS as Forensic Audit and needs to loose their treasury board status – so Canadians can know the truth and rely on the postal service.
There’s a reason Canada Post is named the #1 worst employer in Canada.

As an employee of 30 years, I don’t appreciate using 2006 as a point of contrast for underlining volumes and profitability compared to our current situation. This is because we were not rewarded back then either and suddenly it’s a talking point of how well we used to do. The corporation has always low-balled our wages below inflation in good times and in bad. We’ve never been rewarded for anything. Now when we face a crisis, it’s similar to the story of the little boy who cried wolf. Nobody cares anymore because we’ve always been treated poorly. Concessions have always been the name of the game along with our spending powered being degraded decade after decade and I expect nothing less this time around. I predict being locked out with government interference in very short order. Save your money on your mailings as it’s not influencing anyone. Sadly, I don’t trust my employer and this comes with my 30 years experience. I’ve seen many CEOs come and go and I’m still here as they lined their pockets.

I don’t feel that this update provided any details about what the key principles mean to our negotiations. I completely understand that Canada Post needs to reach financial stability, CP has made that very clear through the talks. (It just so happens its a crisis when in negotiations)

What’s unclear is what they’re asking of us employees other than rollbacks. I’m not opposed to seven-day delivery and evening delivery, also expanding corporate retail counter hours.

CP and CUPW have been in negotiations since November and all the employees have been given is roll backs, that’s not a real plan and that’s not negotiation in good faith. CUPW has offered multiple ways to be competitive and secure financial security through the “Delivering Community Power Champaign” CP should be taking the worker’s suggestions and be at par with the country’s postal services.

I would like to remind any CUPW members reading. The reason we are 2 months away from a possible labour disruption is that CP has offered us nothing after almost a year of talking and meeting over 100 times. CP clearly does not want a deal.

You may be wondering why postal workers do not believe the financial reporting of Canada Post management. They have good reason to distrust managements financial reports. Almost every year CPC management has been deliberately dishonest about its finances.

Consider the deception CPC used to attempt to justify its plan to stop residential mail delivery in 2014.

CPC said the loss in 2011 was due to reduced volumes and the CUPW strike. The fact is that without a one-time pension payment of $63 million due to a regulatory change and the payment of $291 million due to losing the PSAC pay equity complaint initiated in 1982, CPC would have been profitable.

In 2012 CPC reported a profit of $98 million. In 2013 this was restated “for comparative purposes” to show a loss of $136 million.

he 2011 and 2012 CPC Annual Reports stated that the introduction of an accounting change(IAS-19) in 2013 would adversely impact on CPC’s financial results. When CPC announced a loss for 2013 it stated it was due to reduced volumes and increased costs. This was a lie. Without the accounting change CPC was have reported a large profit.

In 2014, to justify the cutback in service CPC said it had lost money for the past three years (2011 – 2013) due to increased costs and reduced volumes. This was untrue. Also, in 2014, to convince politicians the change to CMBs was needed, CPC predicted it would lose hundreds of millions of dollars in 2014. The truth is that CPC reported a record profit for 2014.

During these years CPC paid for other organizations, such as the Conference Board of Canada and EY Consulting to release reports that included financial projections that CPC used to justify service cutbacks and attacks on labour costs. Initially CPC claimed these were “independent” studies.

In 2016 and 2017, during the Pay equity process that was negotiated between CUPW and CPC management claimed that RSNCs were actually compensated more than letter carriers and that the result would not cost the Corporation anything. However secretly CPC was including potential RSMC pay equity costs as “contingent liabilities in its financial results. The amount of these payments was sufficient to turn quarterly profits into losses, which CPC publicly blamed on increased labour costs. The arbitrator found that CPC’s financial arguments lacked all credibility and award pay equity which CPC admitted cost the Corporation $540 million in 2018.

During the 2018 strike, CPC officials went before parliamentary committees and claimed all of the trailers stationed at Gateway were completely full of parcels. Everyone at Gateway knows that the vast majority of trailers were not full and many did not contain parcels.

It would take many pages to detail the false claims, incorrect statements, and contradictory evident presented by CPC managers during the legal proceedings conducted due to CUPW’s challenge to the constitutionality of the 2018 back to work legislation.

Of course there is also the daily behaviour and dishonesty of supervisors everywhere.

That is why postal workers don’t believe you.

We need change, we had it all during covid. We should have capilized on the delivery model then with guaranteed delivery then. Lets start wearing corporate
uniforms. I would be happy with a signed 4 year contract and no rollbacks.

CMB needed in the GTA. This is the only to offer 7 day delivery on a budget in a timely manner. I would be happy with a 4 year contract with no rollbacks

Why has this taken a year to negotiate? Because like everything CPC doesn’t care, and continues to delay hoping the government will side with them. There needs to be a 4 year deal, none of this 2 year nonsense with a year already gone. No rollbacks, or a complete strike, no rolling strikes, at the most important time (November/December) is the only foreseeable outcome.

CUPW has to learn to be more flexible in its negotiation of a new contract with Canada Post. Where it sits financially and almost bankrupt wasn’t something they did alone but with CUPW. Before there is nothing left of the Corporation, and don’t think it can’t happen, perhaps CUPW should look at some of the things they negotiate for like layoffs, and realize it’s 2024 and not 1902. Realize that the more they hurt Canada Post they hurt themselves.

I have a unique perspective to offer, as I worked in a Canada Post retail outlet inside a Rexall for 2.5 years before apply/being hired as a an actual Canada Post letter carrier.

I continuously heard from customers who were shipping various items (within Canada as well as internationally) that our prices were too high. They often asked me to provide a quote, then would drive across the street to check with UPS or Purolator. Sometimes they’d come back and ship with us, but many times not.

I myself even noticed that it was often cheaper to send a parcel deep into the States than it was to ship one within the province of Ontario.

I understand shipping is expensive, gas is expensive, and employees need to be paid, etc… But wouldn’t Canada Post rather secure 10 customer’s business at a slightly lower rate per parcel, rather than ship only 4 parcels at a higher rate?

If customers could be surprised with how reasonable our shipping rates are (instead of having their jaws drop to the floor in shock/disgust) I think word would travel that we are the optimal choice for shipping their parcels to loved ones and customers alike.

We have the facilities, resources, and knowledge to be able to manage the higher volumes of parcels. So why not shave a few bucks off the cost and see if volume increases.

Like I said earlier… shipping 10 parcels at $15 bucks a piece earns us more than shipping 4 parcels at $25 each.

I support my CUPW negotiating team and look forward to you as the Employer making significant concessions to your draconian package in the coming days. Without this, a labour disruption is inevitable.

– NO to more expensive benefits
– NO to a defined Contribution pension plan
– NO to Separate Sort & Delivery
– NO to FLEX delivery (rather than Routes)
– YES to a significant RAISE in line with recent cost of living and other Federal settlements
– YES to downsizing middle management