Red Deer CUPW members remain on strike. Reports indicate good public support.
Meetings Continue
Last night and today, meetings continued with the participation of both chief negotiators and the mediator. Issues discussed included Group 2 work methods and the methodology used in costing the wage proposals.
CPC Continues to Reject CUPW’s Offer to Suspend Strike, Provided Contract
in Effect
CPC has refused to comply with the Labour Minister’s request to provide five-day delivery and has rejected CUPW’s offer to suspend our strike, provided the collective agreement is put back into force.
CPC Moving Backwards Quickly
Last night, CPC issued a statement claiming that the Union wanted to “start over” negotiations. The recent record shows clearly it is CPC management who is trying to start over from the beginning. In the past few days, CPC has withdrawn the following proposals they had previously tabled:
º Calculation of bar charts
º Heavy duty truck mechanics
º Mechanism to convert group 1 part-time hours into full-time positions
(900 hours averaged over 30 weeks)
º Time values for admail
º Joint study of banking and financial services
NEB Planning Strategy
The National Executive Board is in Ottawa and will be meeting to plan our strategy.
“We are hearing from members that the employer is trying to get them to believe that because the contract does not apply, they have no protection. This is not true, especially when it comes to accommodation, illness and injuries.”
Click here to view/download the rest of Negotiations Bulletin no. 64 – June 11, 2011
OTTAWA – Postal workers in Red Deer will be out on the picket line this weekend as
the Canadian Union of Postal Worker’s rotating strike continues. The union continues its
effort to get Canada Post to address the union’s issues instead of trying to force
concessions on its employees.
155 postal workers in Red Deer will strike for 48 hours, starting at 10 pm EDT tonight.
CUPW points to inadequate staffing and a resulting deterioration of service to the public
as the reason why this location was selected.
“In Red Deer, Canada Post’s refusal to staff properly has led to a number of problems for
both the postal workers and the public,” said Gord Fischer, CUPW’s National Director
for the Prairie region.
“We’ve seen letter carriers forced into overtime because there aren’t enough people to
cover the routes. We want to see more rotation of duties and better staffing to make sure
Canada Post lives up to its obligations to the public without pushing its workers to unsafe
limits.”
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has been negotiating for eight months now but
Canada Post continues to dismiss important health and safety issues, as well as rejecting
union proposals for innovation and service expansion that have been successful in other
postal systems across the world.
For more information, please contact Aalya Ahmad, 613-327-1177.
Here are a few photos from the picket in Hamilton this past weekend. Our local president Shelley Sillers hit the pavement with our brothers and sisters from the Hamilton Local!
