Canada Post continues to wait for a formal response to the proposals shared with CUPW through the mediator on Friday afternoon. Our proposals include significant moves to close the gap on key issues like weekend delivery, pensions and wages to reach new agreements and get our people back to work.
While we wait for a formal response at the table, CUPW has been actively and publicly sharing their views and details on our proposals since Friday night. We continue to operate within a confidential process, which was agreed to by Canada Post and CUPW. While we strongly disagree with the responses the union has shared publicly, we encourage CUPW to share their positions through the formal process.
Our focus should be on moving forward and focusing on the key issues, rather than causing added concern for those most impacted by the national strike. With the strike now into its third week, CUPW remains persistent in their demands to represent people outside their bargaining unit, such as making our cleaning staff, and other contracted support services, permanent Canada Post employees.
Canada Post has continued to put forward fair offers that are focused on our customers and our employees – improving service to grow our parcel business, while protecting and enhancing what our employees have today.
I think that Canada Post employees are fairly frustrated with management, but taking that out on the general public to this extent it purely disrespectful.
You want to make an impact, stop mailing out the flyers, but holding Christmas and important documents hostage is inexcusable. I will never use Canada Post after this. I hope the whole organization goes belly up after this.
We have alternatives, you aren’t that essential or important, you just trapped most of us without warning.
I do not support the actions of the Union of Canada Post. This has been a disaster from Canadian’s over the Holidays. This has been selfish and irresponsible.
I am not saying they are over paid or under paid in any way. Yes, the only ones that do actually work harder then the rest are the carriers that go door to door. 22% or even the latest 19% over 4 years is way too much. Cost of living doesn’t go up that much per year. On average, it is 2.5%. Then to demand a cost of living allowance on top of that? Are you kidding me? Your wages take care of you living allowance. As for working the weekends. Suck it up butter cups. This is the 21st century. Place are open on the weekend and other delivery services work both Saturday and Sunday now. To make a schedule is simple. You can take full timers and have them work Sunday to Thursday and Tuesday to Saturday. There are many companies the work weekends. You have your firefighter’s, Police, Nurses, Doctors, Mechanics, Waitresses, Waiters, Retail employees, factory workers, bank Employees. And many more. They all did what they had to do to make money. The days of 9-5 Monday to Friday jobs are becoming the thing of the past. As for job security. I was taught, if you showed up to work every day and did your job, your job will be safe. In 40 years of working, I have worked at 9 different places. The longest I have ever stayed at one job is 11 years. Never been fired in my life. I left jobs for other jobs because of either more money or a better work environment. Oh ya, thats right, if I wanted more money, I found a job that paid more. People that say at a place for a long time end up becoming bitter because they don’t like a manager, supervisor, etc. Never worked in a no mind union job in my life. In fact, my current job pays me more then those who do the same job under a union. I get the same benifets. I get a christmas bonus that is equivalent to 2 weeks wages, and I get profit sharing. Which is usually around 8% or 4 weeks wages. I also get to refuse unsafe work. I get paid training. Unions have outlived their purpose now. This lame strike is just another prime example of that. Every time a Union goes on strike or negotiate a contract, the price of everything goes up. Think about why everything is so expensive now. Unions are the reason why.
How about they try and live on a seniors income, they would soon appreciate what they get now.
I will now never use Canada Post or any company that does . I do not support them and am now an enemy to they. I won’t look at any mail that they bring. They are greedy and are literally biting the hand that feeds them. We can easily find an alternative for them and should . E-transfer, email, and online banking can cut them by 90%. They are actually useless as the cost shows that. They are not profitable and only care about themselves as they show their true colors. Funny they thought everyone would support them. Looks like they are wrong.
All I get is junk mail in my mailbox anyway. Everything important is electronic. Your so called picket lines are a joke and hindrance to our community. You should have been grateful for what you had. But no, “we want more.”
merry christmas postal workers
I am ashamed of both management and the union for allowing a strike during this holiday season. You could have struck in the summer or January. This strike is forcing small businesses and independent entrepreneurs to close or go into bankruptcy after having barely survived the pandemic. Everyone should be grateful they have a job and maybe give their heads a shake. How many millions of Canadians are now facing a ruined Christmas this year thanks to the union calling this strike. As for the government, we will not forget your inaction. I am a senior and believe in sending cards and letters. It is expensive for me but the joy my recipients get means everything to me. Please go back to work and keep negotiating and stop holding the general public hostage.
I do not support Canada postal workers at all. Already overpaid and I have never had good service ever at a postal office in Canada, so there is that. Also how much job security do you want in a company or career related to paper? Seriously?
Not to mention, you just showed us how little this service is needed as we found other means Way to stick it to your fellow Canadians, thanks for the reminder HOW LITTLE the job means to you… Merry Christmas????
Pulling this at Christmas is just low… could have done months earlier or after the holiday. Purposefully “Holding hostage” Important Christmas cards, gifts, and passports for holiday travels… sad
Worked for the post office for 30 yrs, from 1972. Different unions back then. Worked in lcuc, cupw, apoc. Supervisor . What I see in today’s strike is the same repetitive demands to increase union membership as in the past and protect self interest. Foot delivery in Canada is dangerous with injuries from weather. Several yrs ago the post office started a revamp to super mailboxes. The liberals halted it to buy votes. Today there would be over 8000 less employees with getting rid of door to door delivery and would be more competitive. Job protectionism by the union was outdated many years ago. This could have been fixed years ago. CUPW needs to be dismantled for the taxpayer benefit as the debt is too high
Canada post has lost 3+billion in the past 4 years.. why not loose another few billion on keeping the operation running? Or deliver everyone’s packages and throw in the towel cause now you’re just pissing off every citizen in this country
How could Canada Post think for one second they could garner any support whatsoever from the public when we are all on the same boat needing higher wages in this increasingly impossible country to live in. We don’t walk off our jobs like Canada Post habitually does during the Christmas rush and screw the public from delivering gifts to loved ones, we don’t screw the public from receiving essential items such as medication etc. Get off your high horses because the truth is that Canada Post has always sucked, and we have needed a better solution for a very long time. The only thing good that will come out of this is good luck even thinking that after you win your stupid wage increase, you’ll even have jobs at all in the long run. No one will ever trust Canada Post again, and there are plenty of other delivery services who do a better job. For those who are unfortunately forced to be dependent on Canada post such as those who live in remote areas of the country, I feel for you. Another reason why this joke of a Postal Service needs to be privatized, something needs to happen. Thank you Canada post for going on strike, you’ve made us all realize how fast we need to get the wheels rolling to get rid of you once and for all forever!
I completely, 100% agree! Now we all know you all have to go. And good riddance. I will from now on avoid using CP whether shipping or receiving. It really burns me that this stupidity is holding several of my packages in various CP facilities hostage, although they gladly took my money for the shipments but won’t close the deal. Piracy!
Canada Post is rotten from its executives down to its least employee. It doesn’t work anymore and it has burned its last bridge with the public. Why would we ever trust them with our packages and mail ever again? There must be a better way. Necessity is the mother of invention and so I am confident that we will find someone else that we can trust or at least will do it better and stop hurting consumers and the disadvantaged. CPC and CUPW deserve each other, so let them console one another in the ranks of the unemployed.
For anyone that says “the job is hard as they have to walk 15km a day with a 40lb bag” give your head a shake… the only reason door to door service even exists anymore in big cities is because the union doesn’t want to lose 30% of their membership if they move to community mailboxes which can be serviced with way less staff and guess what….no walking. The union and other sympathizers try to use the but but but the seniors argument as a reason not to stop door to door service. We’ll folks guess what…old people live in the suburbs too ( increasingly i might add given property values in big cities) and most suburbs (like mine) are on community mailboxes and seniors don’t seem to have issues getting their mail. In fact parcel delivery to the community box is 100% safer than my door as there is no risk of a porch pirate. CUPW needs to accept that a decent portion of the current staffing is no longer required until CP can get a larger share of parcel as lettermail is dwindling quickly and the days of 5 day a week door to door service are over.
To everyone hating on Canada Post Employees. They actually dont get paid “well”. With the cost of living how do you expect a new employee to live on 22 an hour? Anyone commenting those things here dont have problems surviving. All they are trying to do is be able to afford to live. Most of them want to go back to work, its the UNION. Educate yourself first before you assume they are happy with this. They have families and kids to feed like everyone else. So many stupid people on here. For the last 4 years there has been no wage increase since inflation began.
As a Senior Canadian Citizen, CAF Veteran and a not to kind hearted soul, I’ve always noticed that upper management never acts proactively to resolve problems and or contacts until they are faced with reality. The President of the Canada Post Corporation is paid over $400K a year which is more that the Prime Minister and to date has done nothing to ensure his Crown Corporation mandate to provide a “world class postal system to Canadians though out Canada”.
Get back to work!! We all want wage increases but aren’t getting them. The workers and union have become the villains here! This is becoming a total joke. You are holding all Canadians hostage in this! Shame.
What’s a real shame is Canada Post management team totalling about 4200 people including over 15 vice presidents continue to get fat salaries and bonuses all the while claiming to be broke and not able to pay it’s workers a decent wage.
It’s over 10years they don’t get a increase we live in a era where if u want something u need to fight for it people aren’t slaves , if u wanna be mad be mad at the company
Time to move on. It will be cheaper for Canada to set every home up with Starlink for emails and let parcel delivery take care of the rest.
For those like myself who have just recently retired and or relocated, a majority of our govermnent and Financial paperwork goes through the mail. Applications for CPP, Medical, Drivers Licenses, Bank Cards etc are not online services. We can not get Hands on, Physical Documentation, Photo ID electronicaly untill the Government goes fully digital. We are held in Limbo. The Mail as thus is an essential service.
My Canadian Passport got arrested by Canada Post. Is that legal?
I wasn’t able to attend very far ahead planned relatives gathering. I’m furious. Won’t ever trust Canada Post.
People depend on Canada post for mail cheques parcels to hold a country in limbo during the busiest time of year is just corporate greed.get back to work
I have packages stuck… I ordered my daughter a snowsuit and boots prior to the strike, I live in the North so it’s more convenient and more selection to order, nobody delivers up here but Canada post. They don’t do a very good job at it either, always putting our mail in other people’s mailboxes and or ripped open packages with items missing or items that arrive at the Post office and just go missing. Canada Post is terrible. From the top down.
This strike is 100% ridiculous. Canada Post workers are some of the highest paid in the country and they want to complain. There’s no way that they’re going to make contractors full-time employees because that would give them all the protections without any of the responsibilities. CUPW choose a poor time to do this. Canada Post lost millions last year due to everything going digital. And now they’re striking during the holiday period when Canada Post makes the most money. Where do they think the money for all of this comes from? Thin air? How entitled do you have to be to deny children presents and cards because you want a raise when you already make double what everyone else does? Me and my boyfriend live on $3400/month for 2 people and these people are whining about their pay? The audacity is astounding.
You claim they are “highest paid in the country” and they make ” double what everyone else does”. What exactly are you comparing then to? Last I check 22$ starting wage wasn’t all that much. I wouldn’t want to do that job, carry a heavy bag everyday, all day in even the worst weather conditions. Not to mention sketchy neighborhoods
The management is enjoying free Salary while sitting at home. They don’t care about the employees or the company loosing all the money. They had a whole year to finalize a collective agreement but they don’t want to solve the problem. None from the management will be fired for causing all this chaos. They will hire even more management so that the bosses up high have to do as little as possible.
I get flyers in the mail that I can do without. Time to move into the 2st century. Canada post is no longer needed. Let them stay out on strike for the next 6 months. It will take workers 3 years to make up the wage increase. This country is over unionized.
It is needed by small businesses the elderly that don’t have the internet people that get checks birthday cards Christmas cards and gifts .
I sent my Canadian passport to a foreign country Consulate in Toronto for visa in early November. The Consulate of that country, where I wanted to travel on Dec. 12 to see my ailing mother, sent me back my passport with visa via Canada Post guaranted trackable express post on Nov. 15. Canada Post office accepted that mail for delivery. Canada Post website tracking system showed that the mail would be delivered on Monday, 18 Nov. And I’m still waiting for my mail.
Meanwhile, I had rebooked my air ticket for January 4 spending a lot of additional dollars. My mother’s illness has worsened. Now I’m worried if I will be able to fly out even on Jan. 4. I’m frustrated, sad and outraged.
My question to Canada Post – why did they accept the mail in the first place on Nov. 15 knowing very well that they would go on strike and the mail would not be delivered in due time?
I am exactly in same situation.Submitted my passport on 13th Nov to IRCC thru. XPRESS POST but still tracking shows in Transit.They have made us hostages.I wish they also suffer the way we are suffering.
None of what you said is accurate. They are not the highest paid in the country not even the highest paid for that line of work. This isn’t what they are asking for. Also the workers didn’t want to go on strike this is a choice by the national after Canada Post as refused to negotiate for over a year. Sorry you’re frustrated as are the employees. It’s the corporation that is greedy. They are making six figure bonuses when the company is supposedly running at a deficit. The average worker makes less than you and your husband. It helps to be informed before making comments.
It is astonishing that CUPW is hiding and not disclosing to members uptodate situation. CUPW has to work for CPC employees. No where contractors and cleaning staff are emloyees of their contracted place. I cannot understand, how CUPW wants to merge cleaners and contractors in CUPW. Right now CUPW should pay attention only to the interests of current employees only. This is condemnable demand. CPC should hold a vote quickly on offer and see result.
It’s crazy to see conservatives cut from the same exact cloth no matter where they are on this planet. Instead of being empathetic and understanding to the actual employees that haven’t been given a raise in many years they merely see every moment of suffering as an opportunity to attack the political party they don’t like versus actually having heart and understanding the situation. I am 100% for Canada Post being unionized it protects the workers and I am 100% for this strike. What I find disappointing however is their strategy with intentionally doing the strike during the month of December when they know tons of people need to move parcels and cards for the holidays. Of course that was intentional but it’s still kind of crappy. They need to dissolve Canada Post as a crown corporation and give the control back to the government because crown corporations are run like for-profit businesses and mail is an essential service and should not be a for-profit business.
In the end Amazon will buy CP and it will be done. CP lost the battle when they didn’t aggressively take on other services. I support unions but..CP is losing hundreds of millions per year, workers still get a defined benefit pension which is unheard of these days and still make more money than many Canadians. Don’t like it? Find a better opportunity. Read the room…Canadians are done with all these strikes. Wait until conservatives get in. Better settle now cause CP won’t exist or will all be gig worker deliveries
If they think people are going to side with them, they are so wrong. They took the wrong time to strike. I know this trying to get their point across but pissing people off is not the way to do it. They make good money and they do less than they used to do. They do not walk from house to house like they used to. They drive to the community post boxes and fill them move on. Less work for more money????
They walk door to door in my community and many others from what I understand all weather conditions, even working till 6pm and later all in the dark. Community mailboxes have only been implemented partially across Canada.
They actually do more now. They do flyers, parcels and mail. Theres no more MSC drivers in most cities. Its not a cake job like people think. Educate yourself before you talk.
I say firer them all n get new workers that would be grateful for the job
We’ve got all-time high unemployment rates, I don’t think it’d be too hard to find people to replace them! We all want more money in accordance with inflation, cost of living, etc. We all deserve to be able to retire with dignity. It’s actually just insulting at this point.
This union is publicly making these statements to garner sympathy for this bs. No one cares what you have to say given what you’re doing and when you’re doing it. These people already have better than average wages, benefits, vacation time, paid days off, etc. Whatthey don’t realizeis 55k people holding a country and it’s businesses hostage at the busiest time of the year is bad taste, bad form. They will eventually price themselves out doing what they’re doing. Wonder why the drop is off? Lack of trust, lack of dependability, better options that don’t screw this country over every two to four years. Even if they solve this xmas packages will be late and why? Greedy union. I mean their dues are tax deductable as well. Disqusting these people. ZERO RESPECT OR SYMPATHY FROM CANADA AND CANADIANS.
On the weekend I switched all my bills received by mail to electronic. Other than a few magazines,which I can buy off the shelf, I have little or no need for Canada Post/employees anymore. I am 76 years old and not real computer literate but if I can do it so can most seniors.
Privatize the Post Office…so will run way better..
Agree with starting over. Canada Post is a dinosaur in a futuristic time. As for the CEO and Union… if given a year to complete a task and you couldn’t do it, fire yourself. You can’t do the job. Hand over the parcel delivery to Puro and cut staff in half in order the distribute flyers and what little mail is really still out there.
Canadapost won’t make a penny if no employee’s work for them. Both sides should be sit and reach out to fair contract to end up this strike.
CP has thrown its PW’s under the bus, just because they want to help the government and themselves to create a gig economy. This is why the government hasn’t stepped in and stopped it. CP wants to bring in part-time nonunionized gig workers who will get low wages, get no benefits, work weekends and take hours from the full-time workers many who have been there 10′ 20 and 30 years, plus.
And if they can get 55,000 PW’s to take that deal, it will trickle down to other Canadian jobs. What good is a wage increase if they cut your hours? Would the CEO be OK if they put a part-time CEO down the hall, who took a percentage of his pay? And took half of his bonuses? This is about breaking up the unions (which will forever keep workers under the thump, keep wages low and risk health and safety in the workplace.
I say shut them down, I found better ways that are more compitant and can move my letters and parcels faster, I pay 80 cents more and I’m fine with that. Get rid of canada post.
People in cities have options like you found one. What about rural canada where no one goes to deliver mail except canada post.
Fire everyone, TOP to the Bottom. Re-hire at a wage starting at $ 20. With full benefits from the start. RE NAME POST CANADA, TO be able to get around a union that can shut down a LARGE COUNTY AND MORE. NOT fair not right. This is not Brain surgery, it’s delivering mail PEOPLE !!! WAKE UP
yes finally someone who sees through all the smoke and mirrors
Canada post are greedy and canada post employees have to pay the price. Give them a fair collective agreement
The UNION wants more. Not the other way around. The real greed is the 55k striking workers. Educate yourself.
It’s clearly mismanagement from the top, not a worker related issue. Perhaps educate yourself, support safe work conditions and fair wages.
I am afraid that you are the one that has to be educated. Do a search on the cost of living and how much it’s gone up in the past few years since the old Collective Agreement. Do you really think the employees carrying your passports, important tax documents and or even your loved ones cremated human remains should make $20 an hour? Think about that
Thank you 😇
This is 💯 % corporate greed. The CEO couldn’t run a Lemonade stamp. IT’S NOT the employee’s wasting money it’s all on corporate. The problem with corporations is there’s too many at the top with their hands in the Cookie jar. Trim the greedy Management.
And get someone in there that really knows how to run a company. My suggestion, Kevin O’leary. He knows business and he knows how to make money..Just like are liberal government SCANDALS AFTER SCANDALS THOSE RUNNING THE POST OFFICE ARE NO DIFFERENT.
Absolutely 💯
I have no income this year coming in the little money I had I ordered Christmas gifts for my grandkids, and they are now stuck at the post office. I have no more income to get more gifts so this Christmas will be ruined due to the post office strike they should be happy that they have a job they could do a job they’re not sick, when you’re sick and you have to stop working is rough I believe they just go back to work and stop being such greedy people thanks for ruining Christmas to a lot of people