Canada Post’s latest offers ‘worse’ than before, union says
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The union representing striking Canada Post workers says the latest offer from the company is worse than the deal they "overwhlemingly rejected in a vote two months ago."
The latest offers by Canada Post are worse than they were before, the union representing postal workers said in a statement Saturday.
“Postal workers expected improved offers after being made to wait for 45 days after CUPW presented our offers. Instead, the offers are worse,” the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) said in a statement, responding to contract proposals from Canada Post on Friday.
Canada Post’s new offers to the striking workers remove a previously offered signing bonus and proposes to reduce both the company’s workforce and the number of post offices that are “off limits” from closure.
The union said the company wants workers “to accept what they overwhelmingly rejected in a vote two months ago.”
“Canada Post says the situation is urgent but has used one stalling tactic after another to avoid serious negotiation. Postal workers can’t wait. The public can’t wait,” CUPW said.
The postal service said in a statement on Friday that the new offers “are within the limit of what the Corporation can afford while maintaining good jobs and benefits for employees over the long-term.”
The offers to CUPW’s urban and rural bargaining units maintain much of what was presented as Canada Post’s “best and final offers” in May, including a compounded 13 per cent wage increase over four years.
CUPW said it “will have more to say when we have fully analyzed the offers.”
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