CPAA MANITOBA

Ottawa

– December 12, 2024

CANADA POST BARGAINING BREAKS DOWN WITH ANOTHER UNION

Collective Bargaining between Canada Post and the Canadian Postmasters and Assistants Association broke down today. 

Union President Dwayne Jones stated: “This is extremely disappointing. CPAA came to the table to fix a number of issues that are necessary to ensure the survival of postal services in rural Canada. A Committee of Parliament just recognized that rural post offices are essential to their communities. It raised concerns that pay and funding for those post offices are inadequate. We have tried to get Canada Post to address those and other concerns. Since we haven’t been able to do that at the bargaining table, the parties are going to have to go to the next step. We have a duty to our members and the people of rural Canada to keep fighting.”

Issues in this round of bargaining include: wages, which have fallen well behind the rate of inflation; fair compensation for those employees who pay out of their own pockets to operate Canada Post’s offices; the Corporation’s refusal to return to a fair pension system, despite a substantial surplus in their pension plan; and job security, including assigning the meaningful amount of work that is currently being done in the post offices. This is in addition to items that should have been addressed years ago, like compensation when the Corporation asks a person to be fluent in an Indigenous language to do their job.

The next step is for the dispute to be decided by an arbitrator. The parties have an agreement that Canada Post will not lock out the union and the union will not go on strike. Because of this, CPAA members will continue to keep rural post offices open.  

Further information can be found on the CPAA website https://cpaa-acmpa.ca/wp/

Report of Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates: https://www.ourcommons.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/OGGO/report-22OGGO – Postal Service in Canada’s Rural and Remote Communities 

Contact: Dwayne Jones, President, CPAA  613-745-2095 dwaynejones@cpaa-acmpa.ca