The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has been attempting to negotiate a new collective agreement with Canada Post since October 2010. To date, the corporation has ignored our major demands while insisting on a vast array of concessions.

Canada Post wants to :

• Pay new employees 18% less and give them reduced benefits, an inferior pension and weaker job security.

• Replace a system of sick leave that employees have had since 1968 with a complicated and inferior short-term disability plan.

• Turn back the clock on a host of other contract provisions.

Canada Post is determined to cut labour costs even though the corporation is in a good position to preserve and expand public postal service and jobs.

Canada Post has made profits for 16 years while having one of the lowest standard postage rates in the industrialized world. In addition to making money, Canada Post is dramatically increasing productivity by modernizing our public post office.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers wants :

• A contract that recognizes that CUPW members have helped Canada Post increase profits and productivity. We want the corporation to acknowledge this by sharing some of the gains, instead of attacking our wages, rights and working conditions.

• A contract that shares the benefits of modernization with postal workers and the public by improving and expanding public postal service and jobs in communities.

• A contract that deals with the problems that have accompanied modernization. We want management to sit down with union representatives and negotiate a work method that is both healthy and safe.

We want a decent contract, not a contract that undermines the future of public postal service and jobs.