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CUPW National Office

377 Bank Street
Ottawa, Ontario  K2P 1Y3
Canada

Tel: (613) 236-7238
Fax: (613) 563-7861
TTY: (613) 236-9753

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Wednesday September 21 2016

Seniors:

Along with other major advanced economies, Canada’s population will age in the years to come.

Wednesday September 21 2016

Services on reserves

First Nations don’t receive the same services from Canada Post: Reserves have no postal codes, delivery methods (like

Wednesday September 21 2016

CUPW, Canada Post Corporation, and the environment

Over the years, CUPW has been increasingly oriented toward action on climate change.

Wednesday September 21 2016

CUPW believes that the public service mandate of Canada Post is equally important as the commercial service aspect.

Wednesday September 21 2016

Canada Post has a history of discriminating against Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMCs) (See Appendix A: ‘The long road to justice and equalit

Wednesday September 21 2016

CUPW believes it is both prudent and necessary to exempt Canada Post Corporation (CPC) from the requirement to make solvency funding payments to th

Wednesday September 21 2016

Canada Post is one of the country's largest employers, present in every community.

Thursday April 14 2016

For the reasons set out below, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), if implemented, will put at serious risk the ability to Canada Post to continue

Friday March 4 2016
The National Board of Trustees met from February 22 to March 3, 2016 at the National Office of the Union in Ottawa for the first verification of this mandate. As provided in the National Constitution under sections 4.96 to 4.99, we have completed an examination of the financial transactions of the Union for the period of July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015.
Tuesday December 1 2015
Child care was a central theme in the recent federal election. Federal parties competed with each other to present their solutions to the problems facing parents of young children. Significant among those problems is the high cost of child care in many cities. This report surveys fees for three age categories of child care (infants, toddlers, and preschoolers) in 27 Canadian cities, and the different subsidization regimes that reduce fees for low-income families.

Support Postal Banking - Download and Sign the Petition

Canada needs a postal bank. Thousands of rural towns and villages in our country do not have a bank, but many of them have a post office that could provide financial services. As well, nearly two million Canadians desperately need an alternative to payday lenders. A postal bank could be that alternative. Download and sign the petition urging the Government of Canada to instruct Canada Post to add postal banking, with a mandate for financial inclusion.

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Monday March 24 2025
A federal election has now been called for April 28, 2025. Although the Canadian Union of Postal Workers does not endorse any party, we will be putting pressure on candidates from all parties to commit to defending our public post office and good stable jobs.
Tuesday March 18 2025
On Thursday, March 20, CUPW will join U.S. postal workers in a day of action to defend the public post office. The United States Postal Service (USPS) is facing one of the most serious threats in its history. Postal worker jobs and unions, and the USPS’s public service mission are under assault by the Trump administration that seems to have one end goal in mind: privatization.
Monday March 17 2025
Following targeted testing in late 2024 and early 2025, the Canada Post MyMoney Account is now available nationwide. This marks a key step in expanding Canada Post’s financial services offerings.
Thursday March 6 2025
On March 3rd and 4th, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) continued with its constitutional challenge before the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB).
Thursday March 6 2025
A Federal election could be called in the coming weeks. As is the case, CUPW has updated its pre-election report card, grading all federal parties on the issues that are important to CUPW members.
Thursday March 6 2025

Sunday March 2 2025
CUPW negotiators met with Canada Post, March 1 – 2, to resolve our bargaining dispute and achieve new collective agreements for the Urban and RSMC units. CUPW came to the bargaining table prepared to negotiate collective agreements that will benefit postal workers and strengthen the public post office for generations to come. The Union offered meaningful proposals to help Canada Post expand into weekend parcel deliveries, while protecting full-time jobs. However, the Corporation continued to push for serious rollbacks that would gut our agreements, explode part-time and temporary work, and undermine our full-time jobs.
Friday February 28 2025
OTTAWA– Tomorrow, CUPW and Canada Post will be meeting in Ottawa for two days to resume Negotiations. CUPW is trying to negotiate new collective agreements for both Urban and Rural and Suburban Mail Carrier (RSMC) bargaining units which will both benefit postal workers and strengthen our public post office - now and for future generations.

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

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