Our campaign to let Canadians debate the future of postal services is working.

A large number of MPs and 130,000 petition signers supported a moratorium on the Quebec City Plant closure. Community newspapers and over 800 municipalities are opposed to this closure and others.

It’s time for CUPW members to show how strongly they feel about the right to know where postal service is going.

We’re wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day, along with a green “I want to know” sticker that tells Canada Post it needs to be transparent, share information and act like a public institution.

Regarding the corporate need for “secrecy” in strategic plans (so Canada Post’s competitors don’t benefit) CUPW is proposing a Transparency Committee, to include representatives from Parliament, unions and citizen-based organizations.

The committee would examine any document to see if its public disclosure poses a threat to our public postal service.

Being Transparent opens the door to democracy.

Secrecy stops democracy at the boardroom door.

We are asking for the public to have access to:

• strategic planning documents
• documents relating to the national postal network review announced on
  July 14th, 2005
• other strategic planning documents that consider changes to our postal service, including postal offices, facilities and jobs

We would then ask Canada Post to debate its plans and vision, as part of public town hall meetings to be held in the Fall of 2006.

How you can join in on March 17

Wear an “I want to know” sticker.

Sign a letter to Moya Greene. The letter asks Canada Post to GO PUBLIC because:

• Canada Post is owned by the public and operated for the benefit of us all.
• we all have a right to know what the corporation is planning and to have a say.
• our public postal network connects communities throughout this vast land, helping us to overcome differences and distances.

our public postal network plays a key role in our social and economic life by providing jobs and the infrastructure that healthy communities need to survive.

Postal Workers and the public want to know!