Federal government offered the latest Canada post for union vote

Federal Job Minister Patty Hazdu said on Thursday that she was hoping to break the long -standing deadlock among the parties for one vote to deafen the latest proposals of the Canada Post.

He said that in a social media post, it is to give members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) to vote on the proposals in a “public interest”, which the Canada Post said that its “final” proposals are there.

Hazdu said the Canada Industrial Relations Board would be directed to “vote as soon as possible”.

Cupw, which represents around 55,000 mail workers, has pushed back the idea of ​​membership vote on the latest proposal. The Sangh accused the employer of “not being serious about meaningful arbitration” in a bulletin sent to members on Tuesday.

On June 4, Hajdu asked the parties to work on terms to force the arbitration-a process that would see a third-party effort to make a collective agreement.

The Canada Post has argued that the mediation would be very slow and on May 30 asked the federal government that the latest proposals would be kept in one vote instead.

In a media statement released on Thursday, Canada Post spokesman Lisa Liu said that the corporation welcomes the vote, “This will provide the employees to give voice and opportunity to vote on a new collective agreement at a important point in our history.”

“A interaction agreement between parties has always been a preferred route for an employee recommendation vote, although the parties remain in a major deadlock,” said Liu.

Door-to-door delivery recommended

Cupw has not yet offered comments on Thursday’s developments. The Sangh said in a bulletin on June 3 that “forcibly votes are a direct attack on the most basic rights of trade unions to represent their members.”

Union Bulletin said, “A forced vote would mean that in December 2024, the last minister of the previous Labor ‘, a few months after stopping our legal strike, launched another heavy government attack on our rights for collective bargaining.

Cupw is in a legal strike from May 23, but workers have not taken picket lines. Instead, the Sangh has opted for a national ban on overtime.

Canada Posts and its union have been talking on a new deal for workers for about one and a half years, while the financial plight of the postal service has increased.

The latest proposals made by Canada Post on May 28 include an increase of wages of more than 13 percent in four years and weekend mail service is planned to be kept in the institute, as well as with other structural changes with the objective of maintaining the postal service.

Those changes include the introduction of a core of part -time post workers with equal rates of salary and profit.

After the strike of last year’s holiday season, an Industrial Inquiry Commission established by the federal government found that the Canada Post was compulsory insolvency.

Commissioner William Coupon recommended daily door-to-door mail delivery and expansion of community mailbox among other measures to keep the postal service in business.