News and Events
Share This
Media Enquiries
Events Calendar
By Issue
- Community Mail Boxes (18) Apply Community Mail Boxes filter
- Convention 2019 (1) Apply Convention 2019 filter
- Coronavirus (COVID-19) (5) Apply Coronavirus (COVID-19) filter
- Delivering Community Power (1) Apply Delivering Community Power filter
- Palestine (1) Apply Palestine filter
- Postal Banking (16) Apply Postal Banking filter
- Postal Charter (5) Apply Postal Charter filter
- Review of Canada Post (14) Apply Review of Canada Post filter
- Service Cuts and Post Office Closures (15) Apply Service Cuts and Post Office Closures filter
- Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) (1) Apply Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) filter
- Urban and RSMC Negotiations 2015-2016 (22) Apply Urban and RSMC Negotiations 2015-2016 filter
- Urban and RSMC Negotiations 2017-2018 (65) Apply Urban and RSMC Negotiations 2017-2018 filter
- Urban and RSMC Negotiations 2023-2025 (9) Apply Urban and RSMC Negotiations 2023-2025 filter
By Subject
- Canada Post (145) Apply Canada Post filter
- External Organizing (18) Apply External Organizing filter
- Grievance and Arbitration (1) Apply Grievance and Arbitration filter
- Industrial Inquiry Commission (108) (2) Apply Industrial Inquiry Commission (108) filter
- International Solidarity (1) Apply International Solidarity filter
- Job Loss (9) Apply Job Loss filter
- Labour Movement and Coalitions (10) Apply Labour Movement and Coalitions filter
- Mobilization and Internal Organizing (1) Apply Mobilization and Internal Organizing filter
- Privacy and Security (2) Apply Privacy and Security filter
- Privatisation and Deregulation (5) Apply Privatisation and Deregulation filter
- Service Expansion (23) Apply Service Expansion filter
- Service Reduction (17) Apply Service Reduction filter
- Trade (2) Apply Trade filter
- Women (7) Apply Women filter
- Workload & Measurement (2) Apply Workload & Measurement filter
By Type
By Date
- 2025 (2) Apply 2025 filter
- 2024 (8) Apply 2024 filter
- 2023 (3) Apply 2023 filter
- 2022 (3) Apply 2022 filter
- 2021 (6) Apply 2021 filter
- 2020 (12) Apply 2020 filter
- 2019 (8) Apply 2019 filter
- 2018 (73) Apply 2018 filter
- 2017 (7) Apply 2017 filter
- 2016 (33) Apply 2016 filter
- 2015 (32) Apply 2015 filter
- 2014 (19) Apply 2014 filter
- 2013 (7) Apply 2013 filter
CUPW National Office
377 Bank Street
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1Y3
Canada
Tel: (613) 236-7238
Fax: (613) 563-7861
TTY: (613) 236-9753
By Audience
- Health and Safety Representatives (2) Apply Health and Safety Representatives filter
- Members (12) Apply Members filter
- Retired Members (1) Apply Retired Members filter
- Shop Stewards (12) Apply Shop Stewards filter
- Social Stewards (6) Apply Social Stewards filter
- Union Locals (12) Apply Union Locals filter
By Format
By Bargaining Unit
Showing 201 - 210 of 213 results
Pages
Monday March 31 2014
Monday November 25 2013
Pages
Latest Content
Tuesday April 29 2014
OTTAWA – Sixty-four percent of respondents support new revenue-generating services at Canada Post, including financial services, finds a new poll. The poll results are drawn from a Stratcom national online survey which interviewed a nationally representative sample of 1,512 randomly selected adult Canadians between April 9th and April 10th, 2014. This announcement comes on the heels of a symposium on the feasibility of postal banking in Canada, hosted by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) on April 26 and 27. International guests from New Zealand, the United Kingdom, France and Italy shared success stories of the financial services that help keep their public postal services viable.
Wednesday April 23 2014
For Immediate Release OTTAWA – In the wake of drastic cuts announced by Canada Post and backed by the federal Conservatives last December, a number of city and town councils began to formally oppose the plan to eliminate door-to-door delivery. That number is now on par with the number of communities Canada Post claims it consulted with. “Forty-six (46) municipalities, including some of Canada’s biggest cities, have now passed resolutions in support of door-to-door delivery and the number keeps growing,” said Denis Lemelin, National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.
Monday March 31 2014
OTTAWA –The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is pointing out that Canada Post’s new higher postage rates, which come into effect today, are structured to give big businesses a break while individuals and smaller organizations will pay more. Stamp booklets, usually purchased by individuals and smaller companies, are shooting up from 63 cents per stamp to 85 cents while single stamps will cost a dollar. Large-volume mailers, however, will pay only 69 or 70 cents per stamp.
Thursday February 20 2014
For Immediate Release OTTAWA - The Canadian Union of Postal Workers notes that the cuts to door-to-door delivery announced today by Canada Post are unnecessary and will hurt people in the 11 affected communities. "This is a terrible plan and we will fight it every step of the way," said Denis Lemelin, National President of CUPW. "Canada Post executives and the Harper government are dismantling public postal service and refusing to listen to us when we point out there are better options for Canadians such as postal banking. Shame on them."
Monday February 10 2014
For Immediate Release OTTAWA -- Canada Post Corporation (CPC) conducted a secret four-year study on postal banking, which seems to indicate that getting into financial services would be “a win-win strategy” and a “proven money-maker” for the corporation. CPC's research study was stopped cold in the fall of 2013, just before the post office announced a five-point plan of massive cuts and steep rate hikes. Blacklock's Reporter obtained the internal report, including a management report entitled Banking: A Proven Diversification Strategy, through an Access to Information request. 701 of its 811 pages were redacted.
Sunday January 26 2014
For Immediate Release OTTAWA - Thousands of postal workers and supporters rallied in Ottawa on Sunday to send a message to Canada Post and the Harper federal government about their plan to end door-to-door mail delivery and hike postage rates. “The Conservatives are wrong to think that people are going to accept these cuts,” Gayle Bossenberry of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers said in front of a cheering crowd at the Prime Minister’s office. “Stephen Harper, axe this plan and consult with the public!”
Wednesday December 18 2013
For Immediate Release MILTON, ONTARIO - Postal workers delivered over 12,200 postcards of protest to Lisa Raitt, Minister responsible for Canada Post, today at her constituency office in Milton, Ontario. The postcards were signed by Canadians opposing postal downsizing and closures prior to the corporation's recent announcement that it intends to cut delivery and raise rates.
Wednesday December 11 2013
OTTAWA – Canada Post’s decision to end door-to-door mail delivery and dramatically increase stamp prices is short-sighted and foolish. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is extremely alarmed at this rash decision to gut public postal service for millions of Canadians. “If this happens, it would be the end of an era for Canada Post,” said Denis Lemelin, CUPW National President. “We recognize that Canada Post needs to change, but this is not the way!” CUPW has consistently advocated for innovation and service expansion to create a financially viable and service oriented postal service for the future.
Monday November 25 2013
Brussels, Ottawa and Quebec City – As European and Canadian trade officials meet again in Brussels today to continue negotiating an investment protection chapter in the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), transatlantic civil society groups are demanding that this chapter be removed entirely as an affront to democracy, an attack on the independent judiciary, and a threat to climate change and our shared environment.
Wednesday October 16 2013
For Immediate Release -- OTTAWA – An inflatable piggy bank stood 12 feet tall behind Denis Lemelin, National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), as he urged Canada Post Corporation to include postal banking services in its future. October 16th is Canada Post's 32nd anniversary as a Crown corporation. "We thought Canada Post's anniversary would be a good time to talk about what our public post office needs to do to survive and prosper in the future," said Lemelin. "We postal workers understand Canada Post's challenges, and have been advocating service expansion for many years. Our union has recently worked with the corporation on the same-day merchandise delivery trial project in Toronto. We are hoping the corporation will now work with us to add lucrative postal banking services."
- ‹ previous
- 21 of 22
- next ›
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.
Latest Content
Wednesday August 7 2024
Ottawa – The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) on Friday August 2nd filed two notices of dispute with the Minister of Labour for its largest bargaining units – Urban Operations and Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers.
Friday August 2 2024
Today – Friday August 2 – the Union filed two “Notices of Dispute” with the Minister of Labour, Steven MacKinnon. The National Executive Board did not take this decision lightly. The parties have been bargaining since November, but little progress has been made on the Union's key issues. The Employer has given us no sign it will drop any of its major rollbacks or demands for a widening two-tier workforce. Additionally, the employer has not yet made a wage offer.
Thursday July 25 2024
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has dismissed CUPW’s constitutional challenge against the 2018 back-to-work legislation that ended rotating strikes and imposed interest arbitration on members of our two largest bargaining units – Urban Operations and Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers.
Wednesday July 17 2024
We stand in solidarity with you as you bravely fight for your livelihoods and the future of Ontario and our communities. Fair pay, permanent jobs, reasonable workloads, and decent, affordable pensions should be standard for all LCBO workers.
Friday July 5 2024
Since bargaining began in November 2023, the Negotiators have met with the Employer more than 100 times. Since then, we have had many open and lengthy discussions on several issues. It must be said: There has been little progress on our major demands.
Thursday July 4 2024
I am so happy to tell you my news: When our son Basti was 3 years and 10 months old, he received a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Global Developmental Delay (GDD). The beginning years presented major obstacles.
Thursday June 20 2024
Once again, some regions across the country have experienced heatwaves. According to experts, this year’s summer is going to be hotter than usual. We need to be able to recognize the symptoms described below to make sure that we can accomplish our work in the safest way possible, be it outside in the heat or inside where there is no proper air conditioning.
Thursday June 20 2024
Maintair workers in Thunder Bay will soon be voting on their first collective agreement. The bargaining committee recently reached a tentative agreement with the employer which provides significant wage increases over the duration of the agreement.
Tuesday June 18 2024
We have been communicating with the officer on the Canada Post Benefits Policy to clarify how members who have children on the Special Needs Project submit health benefits claims for their children’s prescribed vitamins.
Thursday June 13 2024
The Union received a notice from Canada Post on May 1, 2024, indicating its’ intent to “standardize” the approach for employees who submit their notice of retirement or resignation to the Corporation.
“…once the Corporation has received a retirement or resignation notice from an employee, it will be considered final unless there are circumstances of an exceptional nature…”
- ‹ previous
- 21 of 185
- next ›
Our Events Calendar lets you stay up to date.
We also issue bulletins and media releases to our members and the media.
