Union says Canada Post offers 'fall short' as strike deadline nears
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The union representing about 55,000 Canada Post employees said the latest offers from the postal service "fall short" with hours to go until a looming strike deadline.
Canada Post meanwhile said Thursday it's already seeing mail volumes decline ahead of another possible labour disruption and is pushing for an urgent resolution.
Spokesperson Lisa Liu said Canada Post met with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) on Thursday evening at the union's request, with the assistance of mediators.
The union raised "a small number of the many outstanding issues" but did not respond to the proposals issued a day earlier, Liu said.
In a bulletin posted late Wednesday, the union said it was still reviewing proposals tabled by the Crown corporation earlier in the day.
Canada Post, union agree to meet just hours before strike deadline | Hanomansing Tonight
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The latest on the last-minute efforts to avert another Canada Post strike that is expected to start on Friday at midnight. The company says the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has agreed to meet Thursday night to discuss the most recent offer.
But it identified a number of areas where the offers disappoint, namely on wages and cost-of-living adjustments.
Canada Post's offers amount to a little more than 13 per cent in wage increases over four years, where the union was looking for closer to 19 per cent to catch up after years of rampant inflation.
WATCH | Concerns about another strike:
Small business owners brace for another postal stoppage | Hanomansing Tonight
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Two small business owners who depend on Canada Post share their concerns about the looming strike that could start as soon as Friday, if a meeting between Canada Post and the union representing some 55,000 workers doesn't find a solution.
The union also raised concerns about Canada Post's pitch to include more part-time staff and introduce "dynamic routing" — a model that could see mail delivery routes change on a daily basis to adjust to varying conditions — without established rules governing the system.
CUPW also argued that the six extra personal days on offer are "window dressing" and already allotted in the Canada Labour Code.
The union also took issue with a pitch to remove workers' "five-minute wash-up time."
Without an agreement in place by the end of Thursday, CUPW members are set to go on strike shortly after midnight.
Canada Post rejected CUPW's call for a two-week "truce" that would have given the union time to review the new offers in detail.
If postal workers do walk off the job, it would be the second time in less than six months.
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu is overseeing the file jointly with John Zerucelli, secretary of state for labour, Hajdu's spokesman John Fragos said Thursday.
Hajdu last spoke with the two parties on May 16, when they discussed a newly released report — commissioned by the federal government and written by arbitrator William Kaplan — outlining the "existential crisis" facing the Crown corporation along with recommendations, Fragos said.
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