Canada Post responds to union’s request for binding arbitration
June 1, 2025, 04:19 pm
26 comments
After 18 months of challenging negotiations with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), Canada Post is seeking a timely and fair resolution to restore stability to the postal system while ensuring employees have a voice in the process by allowing them to vote.
The union’s proposal to send the matter to binding arbitration would do the opposite.
Arbitration would be long and complicated, likely lasting more than a year. This would further extend the uncertainty experienced over the last 18 months and accelerate the company’s significant financial challenges. It would also continue to leave employees without a contract – and strip them of their right to vote on a new collective agreement.
For these reasons and more, CUPW has strongly rejected binding arbitration in the past.
In a bulletin to members on October 30, 2024, CUPW President Jan Simpson wrote: “It’s evident that Canada Post is focused on pushing many of their issues to binding arbitration. This approach would delay the finalization of a complete collective agreement and redirect funds towards lawyers and arbitrators rather than investing in you.”
The Industrial Inquiry Commission has stated that “Canada Post is facing an existential crisis: It is effectively insolvent, or bankrupt. Without thoughtful, measured, staged, but immediate changes, its fiscal situation will continue to deteriorate.”
A timely resolution to negotiations that begins to address these challenges without delay, while respecting the important role employees play by allowing them to vote on the company’s future path, is the way forward.
Canada Post therefore rejects the union’s proposal and awaits a decision from the Minister of Jobs and Families on our request for the Canada Industrial Relations Board to administer a directed employee vote on our final offer.
Canada Post’s final offers
Details about the company’s final offers to CUPW-represented employees are available at canadapost.ca/offers.
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Please someone just make a decision….what an unbelievable fumble by all of you involved. Cpc, cupw and government should write a book “ how to kill an organization for dummies”
I do not take personal offense that my union who I love and cherish almost as much as myself,does all the thinking talking and deciding for me.
Canada Post has falsely represented Cupw in this update, in that the refusal for binding arbitration was due to only certain items being recommended for arbitration with the acceptance of all other conditions in the offer. Canada Post has since removed items off the table, so the request for arbitration NOW was a fair solution , but CPC refused it , instead relying on the members to vote on an offer CPC has not provided to review in its entirety and underestimating the workers in it’s entirety- accept Binding arbitration Canada Post
I already had plans for the 1000 dollar signing bonus. Pay half the mortgage ,food no,bills no, gas for car no. Medium double double ,only small. I guess 1000 dollars doesn’t go as far as it used to.
Is now a good time to apply to Canada Post? My last job was a retail clerk at The Bay.
We are bankrupt, but somehow always hiring a lot of people, so you can try.
It’s like living in the matrix with Homer Simpson and Fred Flintstone. You can decide which Cpc and which is Cupw. Either way I didn’t get a chance to vote,my future is uncertain and they all make money. Maybe it’s time to choose a new career. Would you like fries with that? Hum.
So rejection to call for a vote and rejection for arbitration. So now what? We’re so screwed!! Here’s my offer. Take dynamic and SSD off the table, add CMBs and weekend/flex work—- deal done
cupw executive obviously doesn’t think to highly of the members by denying the right for us to vote. Let us vote!!!
Will the Leafs win Stanley Cup before binding arbitration ? Place your bets.
Minister wants Cupw and Cpc to work out terms for arbitration. So no strike,no lock out ,no letting the employees vote. Ok I’m going back to watching Real Housewives of Canada Post. Somebody call me,or text and let me know when any of this starts making sense.
I hope for the sake of our customers, the corporation and its employees that this gets settled as we are losing business minute by minute. Times are changing and so must we.
The nonsense that goes on between Cpc and Cupw is a joke compared to those people in Western Canada who have been displaced by wildfires. Those are the people who matter ,not clowns like Cupw and Cpc.
I agree 100% those poor people out West and here we are looking like fools…Get this through your head CUPW followers, no one cares about Canada Post or your whining
Just finished watching paint dry. Have Cupw and Cpc signed a new contract yet? Let me know.
I’m watching real housewives of Canada Post. Let me know when or even if I should listen to anything Cpc and Cupw say.
One day I will make a comment. Soon as I finish getting a life.
You still have this comment box. Omg. Is there anything left that hasn’t been said?
Edmonton Oilers will win Stanley Cup! Hey Cpc and Cupw see what a winner looks like.
I agree , let us vote . No really liking the fact that they want to take our flyer bonus away.. can we just get rid of time values and same benefits and pensions for new hires , and just get our flyer money back??
Sign the Damn offer and let’s move on. If this keeps going, we will have no jobs at all.
Vote no….. Move on to binding arbitration. Let’s get on with it.
Hopefully we can vote sooner than later and be done with this Union.
binding arbitration is not the solution. VOTING IS THE SOLUTION.
So how do you square this one.Union claims that the basic right of a trade union is to represent its members but you do not want to put offer to vote fearing majority might accept.Then you are not representing the the wishes of the people you claim to represent
100% nailed it here! Plus, may I also add that if the vote had proceeded and it came to a “No”, binding arbitration would then be plausible, yes? At least, the members would have had an opportunity to speak for themselves first!