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Canada Post, Union to Resume Mediated Talks as Rotating Strikes Continue

The dispute stems from Ottawa’s mandate reforms ordered after steep losses.

Overview

  • Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers will meet with a federal mediator later this week for their first bargaining session in nearly a month, with a date still to be set.
  • Postal workers remain on strike more than a month after walkouts began, shifting to a rotating model roughly two weeks into the action.
  • Canada Post said it has cut some management positions to align leadership with a government-directed transformation plan, without disclosing how many roles were eliminated.
  • The federal reforms announced Sept. 25 allow expanded community mailboxes, relaxed delivery standards and some post office closures, and require Canada Post to submit an implementation plan within 45 days.
  • Canada Post’s Oct. 3 offer proposes a 13.59% wage increase over four years, removes a previously offered signing bonus and includes provisions that could allow job losses, while the union seeks 19% and urges Ottawa to stay out of bargaining.