Negotiations Update: Union Responding to Canada Post’s Request for Forced Vote

On May 30, Canada Post sent a letter to Minister Patty Hajdu, responsible for Jobs and Families, asking her to use her power under section 108.1 of the Canada Labour Code to force a vote on the Employer’s latest offers for both bargaining units.

When we first received the letter Friday evening (May 30), we were given until Monday, June 2 to review and provide our response to the Employer’s request to the minister. However, our request for an extension was granted, and now we have until Wednesday, June 4 to send our official response. As of today, June 3, the Minister has not made a decision. On her X page, Minister Hajdu wrote that she and her office were “reviewing” Canada Post’s request.

CUPW stands solidly against a forced vote. A forced vote would mean yet another heavy-handed government attack on our rights to free collective bargaining – just months after the last Minister of Labour “paused” our legal strike in December 2024. Repeated government intervention poisons the bargaining process.

A forced vote is an attack on the most basic rights of trade unions to represent their members.

We will provide more information about the Minister’s decision as it becomes available.

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In solidarity,