Tuesday November 5 2024
2023-2027/154
No. 40
On November 5, 2024, the Negotiators met with Canada Post to present the Union’s second global offer for Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMC).
Unlike Canada Post’s proposals, our demands offer real solutions: fair wages, health and safety, the right to retire with dignity, and expansion of services at the public post office.
While the Union has been trying to move negotiations forward, Canada Post has not backed away from its numerous rollbacks, including two-tier pensions, vacations, and benefits, and its demand to move from a 5-year wage chart to a 7-year wage chart.
Our Global Offer
Wage increases: 9% in Year 1, 5% in Year 2, 4% in Year 3, and 4% in Year 4, equalling 22% or 23.79% compounded.
Our offer still includes demands covering:
· Job security · An hourly rate system with proper time values that meet our needs · Maximizing and maintaining 8-hour routes
· Pensionable hours for all hours worked · Corporate vehicles for all RSMCs · Improved staffing and coverage of absences
· Guaranteed 40-hour work week · Meal and rest periods in line with Group 2 · Increased short-term disability (STDP)and injury on duty (IOD)payments
· 10 paid medical days · Improved benefits · Improved rights for On-Call Relief Employees (OCRES)
· Precautionary cessation of work · Improved protections against technological change · RSMC involvement in service expansion projects
· No contracting out of RSMC work · Cost of Living Allowance (COLA)
Canada Post says it wants to reach a negotiated collective agreement, but their offers suggest otherwise. If Canada Post wants a stable way forward while continuing to provide Canadians with a fundamental public service, they will take this offer seriously.
In Solidarity,
François Senneville
Lead Negotiator, RSMC Unit