The last proposal of the Canada Post to the trade union, representing 55,000 amazing postal workers, includes a number of measures on his last proposal, while at the same time the removal of the signing bonus, which the corporation says that he can no longer afford.
“From the worsening financial situation of the company, the signing bonus for employees is no longer on the table,” the Canada Post on Friday said in a statement.
This new proposal will “ensure the modernization of the company”, at the same time “maintaining good work and benefits for employees in the long run,” the report said.
Crown Corporation stated that his proposal to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) contains many provisions from his May final proposal, “including an increase in wages by 13.59 percent for four years, medical and pension benefits and up to seven weeks of vacation.
The signing bonus is usually awarded to trade union staff after they sign a new collective agreement. In May, Canada Post stated that these bonuses will vary from 500 to 1000 dollars.
Crown Corporation also stated that at a time when she abandoned her efforts to introduce a new plan for medical benefits, changes in pension benefits and enrollment of employees in a pension plan with established contributions.
Both parties conducted negotiations on a new collective agreement for more than a year and a half. Postal workers resumed a blow last week After the government announced broad changes in the corporation.
Seven days after the strike by mail, the employees gathered outside the deputy Julie Dabrusin in Toronto to protest against the proposed “restructuring” of the service. Ali Chiasson from CBC spoke to some of these postal workers.
In the statement for CBC News Cupw, he said that the last sentence, according to the visible, is a marked step back.
“The sentences are worse. Canada post expects the postal workers to accept that they overwhelmed the majority by voting two months ago, ”said the trade union on Friday.
In August, CuPW sent Canada Post, which was increasing by 19 percent in four years. The Union stated that there would be more to say that after he completely analyzes the new proposal.
Canada Post has not received profit since 2017, having lost $ 841 million. USA in 2024. Last week, the Minister of Transformation of the Government Joel Lightband said that Canada Lost is losing about $ 10 million a day and this year he lost $ 1.5 billion.
Lightbound said that “Canada’s post is actually insolvent,” and that “repeated salvations from the federal government are not a decision.”
The main changes come to the postal service
The minister said that in order to resolve the results of the corporation, he instructed Canada to make a number of changes, which, according to him, would allow the corporation to stabilize their finances and ensure its survival.
The main among the changes is the termination of the delivery of the house and the transformation of the remaining four million addresses that still receive it to the mailboxes of the community. Lightbound said that this process will save Canada to post 400 million dollars a year and take about nine years. According to him, those who have problems with mobility will continue to apply for delivery at home.
Lightbound also instructed the corporations to adjust how it delivers mail so that an unbearable post could move along the ground, and not air with cost saving in the amount of $ 20 million a year.
The modernization plan also includes the raising of the 1994 moratorium at the closure of rural post offices that cover almost 4,000 seats, many of which, according to the government, have since become suburban or urban.
The government said that it intends to support rural, remote and indigenous post offices in the areas where they are necessary.
The changes correspond to the recommendations made in the commission on industrial investigations led by William Kaplan last spring.
The Kaplan report noted that in 2006 in Canada, the post submitted 5.5 billion letters a year, but by 2023 this volume fell to 2.2 billion, despite the fact that the number of addresses in Canada increased by three million for the same period.
Cupw said that he was “outraged and shocked” as a result of the upcoming changes and resumed his national strike on the day when they were declared.
Exclamation and dismissal
On Friday, the corporation stated that in order to introduce measures set forth by Lightbound, Canada Post told Cupw that she would offer voluntary ransom with a fee of up to 78 weeks.
“Dismissal will only be used if other measures, including depletion and departure stimuli, will be insufficient to achieve reduction goals,” the Canada Post said. “Reducing the size of labor using exhaustion will always be the first choice, but this cannot be the only option thanks to this transformation.”
Canada Post said his proposal allows us to dismiss employees to retain the rights to a review for two years, continue to accrue seniority and gain access to an additional plan for the corporation employees.
The corporation also stated that the moratorium at the closure of rural post offices, which is part of the collective agreement, will prevent the closure of 493 post offices in urban and suburban areas – something, that Canada post is “not sustainable”.
