Friday November 29 2024
2023-2027/172
No. 56
Your Negotiators are ready and waiting for Canada Post to return to the bargaining table, so we can get back to the important work of negotiating collective agreements for all postal workers.
As members know by now, the special mediator put Negotiations on a temporary pause, suggesting the Employer and the Union were too far apart for meetings to continue. We are hoping that Canada Post takes this time to reassess its positions and finally come to see the flaws in its bargaining proposals.
Scare Tactics Won’t Work
For over a year now, Canada Post has been demanding concessions that it knows no union could ever accept. Two weeks into a nationwide strike, the Employer has dug in its heels, refusing to bargain seriously. Instead, Canada Post decided to step up its attacks, trying to scare us into submission, by cutting off our health benefits and laying off our members.
But across the country, members are holding strong on the picket line. Together, we are showing Canada Post its scare tactics won’t work. We aren’t going to back down or settle for anything less than what we deserve.
Workers are Ready
Postal workers are proud of the job they do, and there is nothing more we’d like to do than get back to work as fast as we can. We know how much our communities rely on the services we provide, and we want to be there for them.
But as trade unionists, we have to make sure that all workers get a fair deal. Until Canada Post stops demanding we leave our future co-workers behind, we’ll have no choice but to keep fighting.
We are 55,000 strong, and together we are unstoppable!
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In Solidarity,
Jan Simpson
National President