RSMC Global Offer

Today, the RSMC Negotiating Committee met with Canada Post to respond to the Corporation’s September 25 global offer. 

Since the start of Negotiations, the Employer has told us that it does not want to change the company on the backs of its employees. But after reviewing the Corporation’s offer, we are not satisfied the Employer has lived up to its word.

The Negotiators made it clear: We will not accept changes that we have fought so hard to achieve since 2004. Together, we have come too far to accept falling behind. We will accept nothing less than what we deserve!

Highlights of Our Global Offer:

• Job Security rights in line with the Urban collective agreement
• Wage increases of 12.65% in Year 1 and 4.5% in Year 2, with further discussions on the length of the agreement and subsequent wage increases
• COLA payments to be rolled into the basic wage rate
• An Hourly Rate system that meets the needs of all RSMCs
• Maximize 8-hour routes
• Pensionable hours for every hour paid at straight time for regular employees
• Corporate vehicles for all RSMCs, starting with employees who request one
• Improved staffing and coverage of absences, including: ensuring CPC is responsible for covering all absences, eliminating barriers in the creation of OCRE groupings, and bar charts for RSMCs
• Guaranteed 40-hour work week for PREs
• Meal and rest periods in line with Group 2 in the Urban collective agreement
• Increase STDP payments from 70% to 80% of our wages and increase Injury on Duty payments to 88%
• Add 10 medical days to our 7 personal days, and allow medical days to be banked
• Significant improvements to our group benefits plans, including increased coverage for health specialists, fertility treatment, gender-affirming care, vision care, and more
• Improved rights for OCREs in line with those of Urban temporary employees
• No recovery of alleged PCI overpayments
• Precautionary cessation of work for pregnant and breastfeeding employees
• Improved protections against technological change
• RSMC involvement in service expansion projects
• No contracting out of RSMC work

In Solidarity,