Wesley Bartlett, a Canada Post mail carrier, attends a Canada Union of Postal Workers rally outside the Prime Minister's Office in Ottawa on Nov. 7, 2024.
Canada Post labour talks deteriorate as revenues fallPostal workers rallied in downtown Ottawa as labour talks at Canada Post worsen amid abysmal revenues and competitors who cut costs with gig labour.Canada Post workers rallied at several locations across the country Thursday, as the threat of a strike between the Crown corporation and its unionized employees looms.
Numbers reported by the union show 95.8 per cent of urban workers and 95.5 per cent of rural workers voted to back the strike mandate. "Throughout this process, Canada Post has not dropped its proposed rollbacks and is asking for many of our major issues to be resolved through arbitration," the news release read.
"We've offered wage increases and additional paid leave, while protecting their defined benefit pension and stringent job security provisions." Lee, who has published extensively on Canada Post, said there isn't enough business to support the current workforce of mail carriers.
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