Members of CUPW’s National Executive Board and Negotiating Committees will meet with Joël Lightbound, the Minister responsible for Canada Post, this Wednesday evening (October 8).
This will be our first in person meeting with the Minister in charge of Canada Post. It is far too late in the process for this to happen, but that has been the Minister’s call. Now that we are all on the street he has asked to talk to us.
The meeting will focus on the Union’s response to the Minister’s September 25 announcement as well as the Employer’s latest contract offers.
While we want the meeting with the Minister, there’s no secret about our position: the Government’s decision to announce its plans to gut the public post office and slash thousands of good jobs is the wrong approach and will make everything worse for Canadians, the public service, and bargaining. The announcement was made just a day before Canada Post was supposed to present new global offers – not an effective way to advance negotiations or find labour peace. We will demand the Minister publicly rescind the changes he announced on September 25.
We will be raising the problems of keeping a CEO and Board that has mismanaged Canada Post for years and the conflict of interest that Purolator brings to the table and the movement of our work, including struck work, to other employees under the Canada Post umbrella.
In the meantime, our nation-wide strike action continues.
The struggle continues.
In solidarity,