CPC Says No and is Waiting for Legislation
As of Wednesday November 21 2018, Canada Post has not moved on any of our key issues. Justice Firestone stated in his decision that after the Conservative Government introduced the back-to-work legislation in 2011, that Canada Post hardened their position in bargaining. The effect of this legislation was to “substantially interfere” and “to disrupt the balance of a meaningful process of collective bargaining”.
Wednesday November 21 2018
Welcomes mediator back, but feeling undermined by government tactics – For immediate release – Ottawa – Today, Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) members going to work are finding that the mail backlog has been highly exaggerated. The CUPW Toronto local reports that rather than the “hundreds of trailers” that Canada Post reported, they have about seventy – a backlog that can probably be cleared in a few days. Postal workers have seen one truck in London, six trailers in Hamilton, two in Halifax, 15 in Moncton, zero in Saint John and St. John’s. “So where did all that mail go overnight?” asks Mike Palecek, CUPW National President. “We’re convinced that Canada Post manufactured a crisis just to get the government to intervene. If so, that’s a huge concern, and it will further poison our work environment and labour relations for years and years to come.”
Some of the post offices on strike in BC
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Kamloops (BC)
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Nanaimo (BC)
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Port Alberni (BC)
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Quesnel (BC)
- Lac La Hache BC
- 70 Mile House BC
- 100 Mile House BC
- Lone Butte BC
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Salmon Arm-Revelstoke (BC)
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Williams Lake (BC)
