Federal government to put latest Canada Post offer up for union vote

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Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said Thursday she's putting Canada Post's latest offers to unionized postal workers up for a ballot successful the anticipation of breaking a long-standing impasse betwixt the parties.

Crown corp and Canadian Union of Postal Workers stay locked successful stalemate

Craig Lord · The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 12, 2025 10:06 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

Canada Post signage and parked reddish  vehicles astatine  a Canada Post message  sorting installation

The astir caller declaration talks betwixt the postal national and Canada Post ended with the national inactive successful disagreement implicit issues specified arsenic idiosyncratic pay, benefits, pensions and the usage of part-time workers. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)

Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said Thursday she's putting Canada Post's latest offers to unionized postal workers up for a ballot successful the anticipation of breaking a long-standing impasse betwixt the parties.

She said successful a societal media station it's successful the "public interest" to springiness members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) an accidental to ballot connected the offers, which Canada Post said are its "final" proposals.

Hajdu said the Canada Industrial Relations Board volition beryllium directed to behaviour the ballot "as soon arsenic possible."

CUPW, which represents astir 55,000 message workers, has pushed backmost connected the thought of a rank ballot connected the latest offer. The national accused the leader of being "not superior astir meaningful arbitration" successful a bulletin sent to members Tuesday.

Hajdu asked the parties connected June 4 to enactment retired presumption for binding arbitration — a process that would spot a third-party effort to hash retired a corporate agreement.

Canada Post has argued arbitration would beryllium excessively dilatory and asked the national authorities connected May 30 to alternatively enactment the latest offers up to a vote.

In a media connection issued Thursday, Canada Post spokesperson Lisa Liu said the corp welcomes the vote, adding "it volition supply employees with the accidental to person a dependable and ballot connected a caller corporate statement astatine a captious constituent successful our history."

"A negotiated statement betwixt the parties has ever been the preferred way to an worker ratification vote, nevertheless the parties stay astatine a large impasse," Liu said.

Ending door-to-door transportation recommended 

CUPW has not yet offered remark connected Thursday's developments. The national said successful a bulletin connected June 3 that a "forced ballot is simply a nonstop onslaught connected the astir basal rights of commercialized unions to correspond their members."

"A forced ballot would mean yet different heavy-handed authorities onslaught connected our rights to escaped corporate bargaining — conscionable months aft the past curate of labour 'paused' our ineligible onslaught successful December 2024. Repeated authorities involution poisons the bargaining process," the national bulletin said.

CUPW has been successful a ineligible onslaught presumption since May 23 but workers person not taken to the picket lines. Instead, the national has opted for a nationalist prohibition connected overtime.

Canada Post and its national person been negotiating for astir a twelvemonth and a fractional connected a caller woody for workers portion the postal service's fiscal plight has grown worse.

The latest offers tabled by Canada Post connected May 28 see a wage hike of a small much than 13 per cent implicit 4 years and plans to institute play message service, on with different structural changes aimed astatine keeping the postal work afloat.

Those changes see the instauration of a corps of part-time postal workers with akin rates of wage and benefits.

An Industrial Inquiry Commission acceptable up by the national authorities aft past year's month-long vacation play onslaught by postal workers recovered that Canada Post was fundamentally bankrupt.

Commissioner William Kaplan recommended an extremity to regular door-to-door message transportation and an enlargement of assemblage mailboxes, among different measures to support the postal work successful business.

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Craig Lord is simply a newsman with The Canadian Press.

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