Canada signs bonus from the table in the latest proposal to Post Union
The latest proposal of the Canada Post to the union representing 55,000 striking post workers includes several measures from its final proposal – while removing a signature bonus, the corporation says it can no longer tolerate it.
“Due to the company’s deteriorating financial situation, a signature bonus for employees is no longer on the table,” Canada Post said in a statement on Friday.
This new proposal “will enable modernization of the company” while “while maintaining good jobs and benefits for employees in the long term,” said this.
The Crown Corporation stated that its offer to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) includes several provisions from the May “final proposal”, including 13.59 percent increase in wages, health and retirement benefits and seven weeks holidays in four years.
The Canada Post said in May that it had abandoned his efforts to launch a new health benefit scheme, change retirement benefits and admission to workers in a defined contribution pension scheme.
The latest proposal also keeps the “cost of living allowance” which the Canada Post says it will protect its workers “against the effects of unexpected inflation”.
Both sides have been in conversation for a new collective agreement for more than one and a half years. Post workers started striking again last week After the government announced extensive changes in the corporation.
Seven days in the Canada Post Strike, workers collected outside the Toronto office of MP Julie Dabrusine to oppose the proposed “reorganization” of service. Ali Chiasson of CBC spoke with some of those post workers.
In a statement posted on its website on Thursday, Cupw said that any change in Canada Post should be done through meaningful consultation, not unilateral action. “
The statement said, “Our talks committees will carefully review the proposals from Canada Post and analyze whether they meet the needs of post workers, our families and public, which are dependent on us.”
Canada Post has not taken advantage since 2017, decreasing by $ 841 million in 2024. Last week, the change minister of the government Joel Lightbound said the Canada post damages about $ 10 million per day and is on the track for a decrease of $ 1.5 billion this year.
Lightbound stated that “Canada post is effectively bankrupt,” and that “is” there are no reaping solutions from the federal government. “
Major changes in postal service
The minister said that to address the lower line of the corporation, he had directed the Canada Post to implement several changes that he said that the corporation would be allowed to stabilize its finance and ensure its existence.
Major of the changes are ending home delivery and the remaining four million addresses are still obtained in community mailboxes. Lightbound said that the process would save Canada a $ 400 million post annually, and would take about nine years to complete. People with the issue of mobility will continue to qualify for home delivery, he said.
Lightbound also directed the corporation how it distributes mail, so that non-essential posts can move beyond the ground instead of air at a cost of $ 20 million annually.
The Modernization Scheme involves raising the 1994 adjournment on the closure of rural post offices in 1994, which involves around 4,000 places – many of which have been said to have become suburban or urban since then.
The government said that it intends to maintain rural, remote and indigenous post offices in areas where they are required.
Changes are in line with the recommendations made by the Industrial Inquiry Commission led by William Council in the previous spring.
The couple’s report said that in 2006, the Canada Post gave 5.5 billion letters a year, but by 2023 the volume fell to 2.2 billion, despite the number of addresses in Canada increased by three million in the same period.
Cupw said it was “angry and frightening” with the upcoming changes and the day he was announced, the national strike started again.
Attention and pruning
On Friday, the corporation said that to implement the measures prescribed by Lightbound, Canada Post has told Cupw that it would offer voluntary purchase with a 78 -week salary.
The Canada Post said in a statement, “The trimming will only be used when other measures, including atrocities and departure incentives, prove to be inadequate to achieve the goals of deduction.” “Reducing the size of the workforce through attraction would always be the first choice, but it may not be the only option through this change.”
The Canada Post said that its proposal allows employees to maintain the rights to remember for two years, to earn seniority and reach the corporation’s supplementary employee profit scheme.
The corporation also said that prohibition of closure of rural post offices, which is a part of the collective agreement, would prevent 493 post offices in urban and suburban areas from closing – some Canada Post said “is not durable.”
