Newsroom - Strategic Review of Canada Post

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Media Enquiries

Canadian Union of Postal Workers • 377 Bank Street • Ottawa, Ontario • K2P 1Y3
tel: 1 613.236.7238 • fax: 1 613.563.7861 • email: media@cupw-sttp.org • web site: www.cupw.ca

CUPW information on the Strategic Review of Canada Post: cupw.ca/StrategicReview

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Rural communities win moratorium on post office closures in new service charter

September 23, 2009

For Immediate Release – Ottawa – Saturday September 12, 2009, the federal Conservatives quietly announced a Canadian Postal Service Charter in an attempt to calm rural residents’ discontent with their public postal service in the run-up to an election. The ...

Independent Advisory Panel Tells Feds not to Deregulate the Public Post Office

May 1, 2009

Ottawa – The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) welcomes the recommendation of an independent advisory panel to not deregulate public postal services. ...

CUPW brings postal concerns to Conservative convention

November 13, 2008

For Immediate Release Ottawa – The Canadian Union of Postal Workers will be at the Conservative policy convention in Winnipeg today to raise concerns about a largely unknown government review that will determine the future of universal public postal service in our ...

Billboards Slam Cannon on Postal Deregulation

September 24, 2008

For Immediate Release Hull-Gatineau – Two large billboards that are critical of Lawrence Cannon’s position on postal deregulation are going up today. One in downtown Gatineau and another in his riding. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has ...

Poll results confirm large majority opposes postal deregulation

September 2, 2008

Attention News Editors: OTTAWA, Sept. 2 - A new Ipsos Reid poll shows 69 per cent of the public oppose allowing private companies to deliver letters in Canada. The release of this poll coincides with the final day for submissions to the Canada Post Corporation Strategic Review, ...

Wanted: Meeting with Lawrence Cannon about our public post office

August 11, 2008

For immediate release Ottawa-August 11, 2008—An all-out hunt is on for Lawrence Cannon, Minister responsible for Canada Post. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has placed a Wanted ad in the Hill Times asking government workers, ministerial staff, the media ...

High stakes secret review of Canada Post

June 24, 2008

Over the next few months, our Conservative federal government is conducting a review that will determine the future of universal, public postal service. This review is pretty much a secret review and it could be very bad news for rural communities. The government’s ...

CUPW President Blasts Minister about Secret Meetings

May 27, 2008

For Immediate Release Ottawa – “Cherry picked submissions, closed meetings and tight deadlines are no way to decide the fate of our publicly-owned post office,” said Denis Lemelin, National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). ...

Canada Post Strategic Review – Postal workers and the public will be heard

April 22, 2008

For Immediate Release   Ottawa – The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) will ensure the voices of postal workers and the public are heard during the government’s strategic review of Canada Post according to Denis Lemelin, National President of CUPW. ...