{"id":74001,"date":"2025-05-21T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=74001"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:07:52","slug":"canada-post-presents-new-global-offers-to-the-canadian-union-of-postal-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/canada-post-presents-new-global-offers-to-the-canadian-union-of-postal-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Post presents new global offers to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"timestamp\"><b>May 21, 2025 at 17:49<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Canada Post today presented new global offers to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), demonstrating a commitment to reach agreements and maintain continuity of postal services for Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>The new offers, for the Urban and RSMC (Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers) bargaining units, go further on wage increases and would protect employees&#8217; benefits and entitlements. The offers also reflect the Corporation&#8217;s current realities. Canada Post has proposed important changes to its delivery model to increase its flexibility and help address the Corporation&#8217;s significant financial and operational challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Canada Post and CUPW are negotiating at a critical moment for the postal system. Since 2018, the Corporation has recorded more than $3\u00a0billion in losses before tax, and it will post another significant loss for 2024. In early 2025, the Government of <span class=\"xn-location\">Canada<\/span> announced repayable funding of up to <span class=\"xn-money\">$1<\/span>.034\u00a0billion for Canada Post to prevent insolvency.<\/p>\n<p>Building on the important work of the Industrial Inquiry Commission (IIC) and the findings and recommendations in its final report, the parties must now bring urgency to negotiations. Another labour disruption would be costly and disruptive for employees, small businesses and the millions of Canadians who rely on the postal system.<\/p>\n<p><b>Enhancing and protecting what&#8217;s most important to employees<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Under the new global offers, current employees would keep their:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Defined benefit pension<\/li>\n<li>Industry leading job security provisions<\/li>\n<li>Health benefits and post-retirement benefits<\/li>\n<li>Vacation (up to seven weeks) and pre-retirement leave<\/li>\n<li>Cost of living allowance that protects against the effects of unforeseen inflation<\/li>\n<li>Work schedules<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Corporation has increased its wage offer. Current employees would receive wage increases of 6.0% in year one; 3.0% in year two; 2.0% in year three; and 2.0% in year four (13.59% compounded). The offers also provide employees with better income replacement for leave under the short-term disability program, and six added personal days locked into the collective agreements.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the company&#8217;s commitment to reach agreements, Canada Post has withdrawn items since its last global offer. The company is no longer proposing a new health benefits plan, changes to employees&#8217; post-retirement benefits, or enrolling future employees in the defined contribution pension.<\/p>\n<p><b>Changes to secure the future of the postal system <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Canada Post is proposing critical changes to its delivery model to help it compete in parcel delivery seven days a week and meet the changing needs of businesses and Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>The company will create stable and predictable part-time jobs for people who are looking for flexible work. The part-time positions will provide health and pension benefits and scheduled and guaranteed hours (15 to 40 hours of work per week).\u00a0The creation of part-time jobs increases the company&#8217;s delivery flexibility, especially on weekends, while ensuring that letter carriers are not required to work weekend shifts.<\/p>\n<p>Canada Post is also proposing an initial, limited implementation (10 facilities) of Dynamic Routing, an industry standard used by all other major couriers. Under Dynamic Routing, delivery routes are planned and optimized daily, creating more consistent, predictable service for customers.<\/p>\n<p>Future employees, hired after the signing of the new collective agreements, will receive health and pension benefits after six months of regular employment.<\/p>\n<p><b>Negotiations process<\/b><b>\u00a0and timeline<\/b><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-chron\">November 15, 2024<\/span>:<\/b>\u00a0CUPW started a national strike, shutting down Canada Post&#8217;s operations.<\/li>\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-chron\">December 13, 2024<\/span>:<\/b>\u00a0The federal Minister of Labour directed the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to examine the impasse between Canada Post and CUPW. The Minister also created the IIC to examine the significant issues in the bargaining dispute.<\/li>\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-chron\">December 17, 2024<\/span>:<\/b>\u00a0Canada Post and CUPW-represented employees resumed operations after being ordered back to work by the CIRB. The existing collective agreements between Canada Post and CUPW were extended until May\u00a022, 2025.<\/li>\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-chron\">May 15, 2025<\/span>:<\/b>\u00a0After holding hearings earlier in the year, the IIC presented its final report and recommendations to the federal government.<\/li>\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-chron\">May 19, 2025<\/span>:<\/b>\u00a0Canada Post received strike notices from CUPW, indicating that the union intends to begin strike activity as of May\u00a023, 12:00\u00a0am local time.<\/li>\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-chron\">May 21, 2025<\/span>:<\/b>\u00a0Canada Post presented new global offers for CUPW-represented employees.<\/li>\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-chron\">May 22, 2025<\/span>:<\/b>\u00a0The existing collective agreements expire.<\/li>\n<li><b><span class=\"xn-chron\">May 23<\/span>, 2025:\u00a0<\/b>CUPW intends to begin strike activity at 12:00\u00a0am local time, unless the parties reach agreements before then.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s Note:<\/strong> <em>CUPW has requested a 2 week delay in order to review the documents (100+ pages of negotiations and organize a vote from 55,000 union members) to avoid a possible strike\/lockout.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 21, 2025 at 17:49 Canada Post today presented new global offers to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), demonstrating a commitment to reach agreements and maintain continuity of postal services for Canadians. The new offers, for the Urban and RSMC (Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers) bargaining units, go further on wage increases and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 14:05:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74001"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74011,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74001\/revisions\/74011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}