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    Friday March 27 2020
    PURPOSE: This document outlines some options for handling heavy or O/S parcels while maintaining the practices of physical (social) distancing. Different options can be used by different work centers, depending on mail type, layout of the work center and equipment available.
    Friday March 27 2020
    PURPOSE: This document outlines the safe practices for working in a loose load work center while maintaining the recommendations of physical (social) distancing.
    Friday March 27 2020
    PURPOSE: This document outlines the safe procedures during the loose unloading process center while maintaining the recommendations of social distancing and how to identify unstable loads.
    Sunday March 22 2020
    Effective March 22, most post offices open to the public one hour later than usual, and close one hour earlier. This does not change your work schedule or mail clearance schedules. Canada Post’s message to members about this and other changes effective March 22 is available PDF icon here.
    Sunday March 22 2020
    Canada Post issued updated instructions to supervisors on Sunday March 22 regarding PDF icon Special Leave for childcare and elder care, updated process for quarantine, and cancelling vacation. You can seek more information from your supervisor, and here is the employee letter that was to be distributed to you on March 22.
    Tuesday March 17 2020
    On March 18, Canada Post Corporation issued some new directives on social distancing in and around the workplace – for PDF icon retail, for PDF icon plants, and for PDF icon delivery. Also, they are directing workers who have returned to Canada from any international destination since March 14 not to report to work and to self-quarantine for 14 days.
    Tuesday March 17 2020
    On March 18, Canada Post Corporation issued some new directives on social distancing in and around the workplace – for PDF icon retail, for PDF icon plants, and for PDF icon delivery. Also, they are directing workers who have returned to Canada from any international destination since March 14 not to report to work and to self-quarantine for 14 days.
    Tuesday March 17 2020
    On March 18, Canada Post Corporation issued some new directives on social distancing in and around the workplace – for PDF icon retail, for PDF icon plants, and for PDF icon delivery. Also, they are directing workers who have returned to Canada from any international destination since March 14 not to report to work and to self-quarantine for 14 days.
    Sunday March 15 2020
    Canada Post also issued new methods for PDF icon retail counters and for PDF icon delivery of Personal Contact Items. The policy should be available in your workplace. If your supervisor or co-workers can’t answer all your questions, please go to your steward or local health and safety representative for more information.
    Friday March 13 2020
    Canada Post also issued new methods for PDF icon retail counters and for PDF icon delivery of Personal Contact Items. The policy should be available in your workplace. If your supervisor or co-workers can’t answer all your questions, please go to your steward or local health and safety representative for more information.

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    Friday August 29 2025
    This Labour Day, workers across Canada are gathering not just to celebrate our history, but to demand a fair future. This year’s theme, “A Canada for Workers: Made Here, Paid Here,” is a call to action: the people who power this country deserve recognition and results.
    Thursday August 28 2025
    Canada Post has shown us once again that it is not serious about bargaining in good faith.
    Wednesday August 27 2025
    After reaching out to Canada Post through the Federal mediators to schedule a meeting, the Negotiating Committees will return to the bargaining table today, Wednesday, August 27.
    Tuesday August 26 2025
    Today, August 26, Canada Post released its financial report for the second quarter of 2025.
    Monday August 25 2025
    The Federal mediators advised us that Canada Post has cancelled today’s (August 25) planned meeting. The Corporation says it needs more time to review our latest global offers. We are expecting to receive more questions from Canada Post about our offers through the Federal mediators.
    Thursday August 21 2025
    Yesterday, August 20, CUPW’s Negotiating Committees returned to the bargaining table to present comprehensive global offers for both the RSMC and Urban bargaining units. While we had planned to meet again tomorrow, Canada Post has told us today that it needs more time to review our offers.
    Wednesday August 20 2025
    Today, Wednesday, August 20, 2025, the negotiating committees tabled global offers for both postal bargaining units.

    CUPW launched its postal banking campaign with a giant inflatable piggy bank in downtown Ottawa.

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