OTTAWA, July 5, 2016 /CNW/ – Canada Post has just served notice on fifty thousand Canadian workers that it plans to drive them out onto the streets without pay in an effort to impose steep concessions on them. “We knew this was their game all along. They are sabotaging the public review of the post […]
CPC spokespeople are always talking about the deficit in the Canada Post Pension Plan. But they never mention that the plan also has a huge surplus. And while the surplus is growing, the deficit is decreasing. The Facts CPC Never Mentions Here are some of the facts you will find in the 2015 Canada Post […]
OTTAWA, May 20, 2014 — /CNW/ – Canada Post’s plan to cut door-to-door delivery is getting the thumbs down from most Canadians, a new poll has found. 60% of respondents to a Stratcom survey* oppose Canada Post’s plan to replace door-to-door delivery with delivery to a community mailbox. “The public outcry began the moment these […]
Union claims technical issues with sorting system at new multi-million dollar plant A $200-million Canada Post processing plant that opened in Richmond, B.C. earlier this year is experiencing technical difficulties with its automated sorting system, creating backlogs and delays in mail delivery services, according to union officials and customers. Canada Post recently closed its old […]
Protest against the plan to terminate door to door mail delivery hit Toronto streets and the mass media on Saturday afternoon, March 15. Close to 100 people answered the call of Socialist Action and braved freezing high winds to picket the constituency office of Conservative Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver at Lawrence Ave. […]
Approximately 60 people braved the latest winter storm to attend a Town Hall meeting hosted by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers Local 790 to protest the expected changes to Canada Post operations announced late in 2013. The meeting, held to protest the five changes to Canada Post operations, was chaired by Brenda Muscoby-Yanke, President […]
OTTAWA, Feb. 10, 2014 /CNW/ – Canada Post Corporation (CPC) conducted a secret four-year study on postal banking, which seems to indicate that getting into financial services would be “a win-win strategy” and a “proven money-maker” for the corporation. CPC’s research study was stopped cold in the fall of 2013, just before the post office […]
OTTAWA – Thousands of postal workers and supporters rallied in Ottawa on Sunday to send a message to Canada Post and the Harper federal government about their plan to end door-to-door mail delivery and hike postage rates. “The Conservatives are wrong to think that people are going to accept these cuts,” Gayle Bossenberry of the […]
The Canada Postal Workers Union have started a “Save the Canada Post” campaign to demand the reversal of planned cuts to the postal service. After reading the editorial below it makes a person wonder if Canada Post’s recent plan is nothing more than an attempt to privatize. Deepak Chopra, CEO of Canada Post is the […]