Canada Post recently notified the union of its plans to eliminate 560.5 full-time and 119 part-time positions in Winnipeg, Halifax, Hamilton, Montreal, Quebec-Randin, Saskatoon, Saint John, and Toronto. This brings the total of positions destroyed over the next few years due to employer programs linked to modernization (ie. Postal Transformation, Process Consolidation and the National Network Review) to about 1050 full-time and 200 part-time. And there are more cuts to come if Canada Post has its way.

In addition to eliminating positions, Canada Post is also cutting services by eliminating rural mailbox delivery, closing post offices and removing street letterboxes.

CUPW has grave concerns about the course that Canada Post is charting for the future.

The current course will dramatically affect your work and working conditions, sometimes in very negative ways (See fact sheet called Canada Post’s plans for the future and you at http://www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/12163/la_id/1)

The job and service cuts will hurt hundreds of communities across the country that are already struggling to preserve local economies. 

CUPW believes that our public post office should share the benefits of modernization with the public by preserving and improving public postal service and jobs. At the moment, Canada Post intends to use all the productivity gains from its $2 billion modernization initiative to cut jobs and save $250 million annually.

Support for sharing the benefits

To date, about 250 municipalities have signed our People’s Postal Declaration which calls on Canada Post to share the benefits of postal modernization.

Take action to protect public postal service and jobs

1. Send a letter to your MP (no postage necessary)
 
Your local has copies of a sample letter. You can also download the letter or send an online letter by going to the union’s website:
http://www.publicpostoffice.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/12464/la_id/1.htm

You can get your MP's name, phone number and address by calling 1-800-463-6868 (at no charge) or by going to the Parliament of Canada website:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/index.asp?Language=E

2. Participate in the October 13^th day of action to show support for negotiations.

To find out more, talk to your local or go to CUPW’s website:
http://www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/12400/la_id/1.htm

They say cutback – We say fightback