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377 Bank Street
Ottawa, Ontario  K2P 1Y3
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TTY: (613) 236-9753

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    Thursday September 17 2015

    This election, we can do something to save our jobs, protect our service to communities and resist postal privatization and deregulation.

    Tuesday August 25 2015

    The National Executive Board has approved the appointment of 12 Campaign Coordinators to assist locals in strategic campaign planning and implement

    Friday June 19 2015

    The pre-negotiations regional conferences are underway across the country and discussions are moving along.

    Thursday June 18 2015

    Some of our brothers and sisters in the processing plants in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto have been terminated arbitrarily.

    Thursday May 14 2015

    Canada Post is costing taxpayers money.

    Tuesday May 12 2015

    Delegates to the National Convention have sent a very clear message to both the management of Canada Post Corporation and the Harper conservative g

    Friday March 27 2015

    In light of the massive profits earned by Canada Post Corporation (CPC) in 2014, CUPW is calling for a moratorium on the cuts to home mail delivery

    Thursday January 29 2015

    On December 11, 2013 Canada Post Corporation (CPC) notified the Union about its 5 Point Plan approximately 1 hour prior to sending out a press rele

    Thursday January 22 2015

    Beginning September 15,2014 the rules changed in non-major urban centers (MUC) for parcel delivery.

    Wednesday January 21 2015

    The Union has appointed an additional Co-ordinator to help with the campaigns relating to the review of the Canadian Postal Service Charter, the at

    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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    Thursday November 25 2021
    OTTAWA - The Canadian union of postal workers (CUPW) and the Warehouse Worker Centre (WWC) join Progressive International in a global movement with worker, tech, and climate justice organizations and advocacy groups collaborating across borders to #makeamazonpay on November 26th Prime Day.
    Wednesday November 24 2021

    CUPW’s arbitration hearing against Canada Post’s vaccination practice was held today.

    Tuesday November 23 2021
    CUPW joins Progressive International in a global movement with worker, tech, and climate justice organizations and advocacy groups collaborating across borders to #makeamazonpay on November 26th Prime Day.
    Thursday November 18 2021
    CUPW has filed a cease and desist application against Canada Post’s vaccination practice which will be heard by Arbitrator Burkett on November 24, 2021. We have also filed national grievances against the practice. CUPW supports voluntary COVID-19 vaccination, and is proud that many of our members have been vaccinated. However, CUPW is concerned that the mandatory vaccination practice goes farther than required.
    Monday November 15 2021
    The National Executive Board, at its September 7 to 11, 2021 meeting, discussed the updated status of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on meetings stipulated in the National Constitution.
    Monday November 15 2021
    In early November, CUPW wrote Steven Guilbeault, the newly appointed federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change, to request a meeting to discuss Delivering Community Power and the potential for Canada Post to become a leader in the new green economy.
    Wednesday November 3 2021
    This bulletin is to give more details on how to attest to your vaccination status, and what to do next. While this is a Canada Post Corporation practice, not CUPW’s, we are doing our best to prepare members to make informed choices. These are the latest details as provided by CPC to CUPW on October 29, 2021.
    Tuesday October 26 2021

    On October 6, the federal government announced that Crown Corporations like Canada Post would implement workplace vaccine policies that aligned wit

    Thursday October 21 2021
    During the ratification vote meetings held in August and early September, we realized that there was a major point of confusion and misinformation for RSMCs surrounding Personal Contact Items (PCI) alleged overpayments and the recovery. To clarify, in accordance with the terms of the agreement to renew the RSMC collective agreement for two years, the following changes have been implemented with respect to the retroactive recovery of alleged overpayments in relation to the annualized total of Personal Contact Items delivered.
    Friday October 15 2021
    October 16 is the 40th anniversary of the creation of Canada Post Corporation under the Canada Post Corporation Act, intended to make the postal service more autonomous: to help it compete against other parcel and courier services, to maintain financial self-sufficiency, and to improve labour relations in the postal service after several conflicts in the 1970s and 80s.

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

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