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1: Moncton in Pre Modern Post Mode December 17, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/350 History In Moncton the members have been united and have succeeded in forcing CPC to give us back jobs they have stolen and pay $140,000 in damages as a result of the previous bad route restructure. Whether it be attacks to the external workers or internal workers... 2: Modern Post in Winnipeg – Why are the Routes so Bad? December 17, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/349 Now there are five (5) letter carrier depots implemented with mechanized sequencing in Winnipeg – Charleswood, Transcona, and Depots C, M, and J. Four of these are in the new Southwest Depot facility, and one (Transcona) is in the Northeast Depot. On November... 3: Postal Transformation Implementation “An Unmitigated Disaster” November 24, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/342 After weeks of problems with deliveries, injuries and forced overtime, Winnipeg letter carriers walked off the job on November 22. Canada Post has been forcing Winnipeg letter carriers to adopt a new delivery method. Letter carriers are reporting more strains and injuries... 4: Modern Post In Winnipeg – A Disaster So Far, By Any Measure November 19, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/337 On September 20, 2010, mechanized sequencing of lettermail to line of delivery was implemented at Depot C and Charleswood Depot in Winnipeg. Mechanized sequencing is the part of Modern Post that has the biggest impact on letter carriers. Jobs Lost Depot... 5: On November 25, Let’s Tell Canada Post That RSMCs and Urban Operations Postal Workers Deserve to Share The Benefits of Modern Post November 12, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/335 We want RSMCs to have better job security and more relief. We want Urban Operations workers to have staffing, work methods, and health and safety issues addressed. We want to see improved wages and benefits for all. On November 25, let’s show Canada Post what... 6: Multiple‐Bundle Delivery Method November 5, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/334 As part of the Modern Post, the Canada Post Corporation has implemented routes in Winnipeg using a delivery method that requires letter carriers to hold bundles of mail in one hand and on their forearm, in addition to carrying other mail items in their satchel. The... 7: Modern Post = Members Working in Pain October 8, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/320 We have now had 7 days of hearings with Arbitrator Keller on the implementation of the Modern Post. The issues that the arbitrator is currently dealing with are fatigue matting, rotation of duties, IDC carts and the Multi-Line Optical Character Reader (MLOCR). Canada... 8: Modern Post Will Increase Injuries: Report October 8, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/322 What would happen to injury rates under the new methods and technology of Modern Post? Don’t expect Canada Post to tell you. While CPC doesn’t make it their job to look out for your health and safety, your union does. We hired a third party to conduct... 9: Canada Post’s plans for the future 1250 positions cut – more threatened September 23, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/314 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... 10: CEASE and DESIST!- Our Union tells Canada Post: We're not your guinea pigs! September 9, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/308 The union has filed a request for an injunction that will force Canada Post to cease and desist implementing a new method of deli very for letter carriers. An ergonomic assessment has found that the new method significantly increases physical discomfort and the risk of injury... 11: RSMC - Technological Change Update June 25, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/297 As reported in an April 15, 2010 Bulletin, the employer had previously informed the Union that as part of its introduction of Modern Post, it intended to delete eight (8) RSMC positions in Winnipeg. The employer has recently provided technological change notices for three... 12: Modern Post Arbitration Started June 1 June 4, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/284 For over two years the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) and Canada Post (CPC) have been consulting on all plans related to Modern Post. The changes coming are on a scale not witnessed by the union for decades: The largest investment in technology and equipment... 13: CUPW to Arbitrate Modern Post April 22, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/271 On July 30, 2009, Canada Post (CPC) issued notice under article 29.03 (b) with details on their plans to implement the Modern Post in Manitoba. Article 29 provides for a consultation stage so that the union can emerge with a suitably informed opinion as to what would constitute... 14: CPC Says Thanks and Proposes RSMC Layoffs April 16, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/269 On April 9, 2010, Canada Post provided the union with two notices. The first was to announce that the week of April 12th was to be “Employee Appreciation Week” and all RSMCs would be given gas cards as a token of CPC’s appreciation for their hard work.... 15: CPC Slashes Mail Processing Jobs April 9, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/267 It only took Canada Post 17 days to slash 166 regular jobs in the Pacific, the Atlantic and Southwestern Ontario following the March 2010 notification that the corporation “intended to review the national network with a view of optimizing operations” CUPW... 16: CUPW Video on Modern Post is in the mail April 9, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/268 In light of the many postal transformation issues that our members are facing, the National Office has produced a short video on DVD entitled: “The Modern Post: Powered by People.” This message from the National President will soon be delivered to your... 17: CPC Reviewing All Operations: Current Focus on Kitchener, Victoria and Moncton April 6, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/261 On March 22, 2010, CUPW received a notice under 29.03(a) (Technological Change) of the urban operations collective agreement. Management is conducting a review of the national network including all of the mail processing plants with a view to “optimizing operations”. Specifically... 18: CUPW Delegation Visits New Winnipeg Sortation Plant March 29, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/259 On March 10, 2010, a CUPW delegation visited the future Winnipeg, Manitoba, mail processing plant, which is located near the airport. All levels of the Union were represented during this visit. The union members of the NJHSC were accompanied by the Prairie Region’s... 19: Coming Soon: CUPW Video on Modern Post March 11, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/254 In light of the many postal transformation issues that our members are facing, the National Office has produced a short video on DVD entitled: “The Modern Post: Powered by People.” This message from the National President will reach every member’s... 20: Partial Win for CUPW in LCRMS Manual Decision March 2, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/250 One of the main elements of Modern Post is mechanized sequencing of lettermail. With this change, the vast majority of short and long mail will be sequenced by machine in the plant and sent to the letter carrier depot in order of delivery. Canada Post (CPC) proposed... 21: Modern Post to Impact Hamilton, Toronto, Scarborough and Montreal January 22, 2010 - Modern Post - Bulletins On January 19, 2010, Canada Post (CPC) provided further details under article 29 of the Urban Collective Agreement regarding the impact that Modern Post will have on Hamilton, Montreal, Toronto and Scarborough. New Multi Line Optical Character Readers (MLOCR) will be... 22: Modern Post: More than Technological Changes December 3, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/224 After nearly two years of discussion around the Modern Post or postal transformation project, one thing is now clear: Modern Post is about much more than technological changes. First and foremost, it is a concept or ideology that Canada Post is trying to force on us. And... 23: The Case of the Disappearing Street Letter Boxes November 26, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/218 Red Boxes Disappearing in Winnipeg and Ottawa Recently, Canada Post (CPC) told the CUPW Winnipeg Local that about 75 red street letter boxes (SLBs) would be removed from the streets of Winnipeg. A few weeks later, rumours began to circulate that some 200 SLBs... 24: Canada Post is a world-class postal service, but needs to work on being a first-class employer October 5, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/207 No one should be fooled if Canada Post is picked as one of the Top 100 Employers for 2010. Winners of the Top 100 Employers competition will be announced on October 8, 2009. This competition professes to determine which employers offer exceptional workplaces to employees. You... 25: CUPW, CPC Agree to Continue Work on Time Values September 17, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/201 New Time Values Needed for Mechanized Sequencing Canada Post (CPC) plans to implement mechanized sequencing of letter mail to point of delivery as part of its Modern Post (Postal Transformation) initiative. New time values will be required because letter carriers will... 26: New Equipment Coming to CPC September 3, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/189 In late June, a CUPW delegation went to the Tokyo area of Japan to meet with officials of the Toshiba Company, to which Canada Post has awarded a contract to manufacture the new mechanized sorting equipment, including two-tier MLOCRs and four-tier BCSs. The union was able... 27: Job Losses in Winnipeg August 13, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/190 Last week, Canada Post delivered an Article 29.03 (b) Notice to the union regarding its Modern Post (Postal Transformation) initiative in Winnipeg. The Union then told Canada Post that the Notice was not adequate because it did not meet the terms of our collective agreement.... 28: Canada Post Formally Announces Big Job Losses in Winnipeg August 7, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/188 On July 30, 2009 Canada Post announced that the new Winnipeg plant will be staffed with far fewer workers. They told the union that there would be fewer letter carriers, mail service couriers (MSCs), dispatchers and clerks. No information was provided for other Manitoba offices. Under... 29: Time for CPC to Come Clean on Health and Safety July 17, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/181 Recently, Canada Post has created a new webpage dedicated to health and safety and the modern post. This webpage is designed to show employees that Canada Post takes health and safety seriously when it comes to new technology and new work methods. The Union asked Canada... 30: International Postal Conference a Big Success June 25, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/174 We just completed our first ever Modern Post Conference. There were delegates from Korea, Australia, Norway, Belgium, France, the U.K., the USA and UNI, our global union. CUPW members from St John’s, Newfoundland to Victoria, B.C. also participated. It was a big... 31: CUPW to host International Postal Conference May 21, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/168 The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is sponsoring an historic International Postal Conference. This will be the very first time that a conference of this nature has been convened. Tech-Change Info-Exchange Canada Post is spending over 3 billion dollars on... 32: A New Phase for Modern Post Discussions May 7, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/162 Coming Soon to a Plant Near You! Canada Post (CPC) has officially announced that Toshiba has been awarded the contract to provide 95 new Multiline Optical Character Readers (MLOCRs) and 30 Bar Code Sorters (BCSs) in all major plants starting in the new Winnipeg plant... 33: The American Experience with Mechanized Sequencing April 16, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/149 A CUPW delegation has just returned from studying the American experience with mechanized sequencing of letter mail. With mechanized sequencing, letter mail is sorted into line of delivery by machines at the plant. This system has been in place in the United States... 34: What Canada Post has in mind for letter carriers – Winnipeg first February 19, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/127 Canada Post has released detailed information showing how they want new sortation and collation machines to affect delivery. While the main impact is the mechanized sequencing of letter mail; a related change proposed by CPC would have groups of letter carriers start at very... 35: Sooner Than We Thought January 30, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/119 Once again the Union is required to go to arbitration to force Canada Post management to honour their legal obligation to provide us with information concerning their $2 Billion automation program commonly referred to as Modern Post/Postal Transformation. One component... 36: Canada Post Walks Away from Consultation on Modern Post Time Values January 22, 2009 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/115 On December 23, 2008, Canada Post (CPC) told CUPW it was putting an end to National Consultation on changes to the Letter Carrier Route Measurement System (LCRMS) Manual and on changes to time values for letter carrier work in the Modern Post. CPC then filed two national... 37: Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver: Safe until 2011? December 11, 2008 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/109 December 8, 2008 was the first date in the technological change National Policy Grievance concerning Modern Post. The grievance is in front of Arbitrator Burkett. Health and Safety Problems and Impact on Jobs CUPW described the magnitude of the “Modern Post”... 38: Building a Universal Public Postal Service member by member, local by local November 20, 2008 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/092 This week, all levels of the union came together to plan out our strategy for a truly modern universal public postal service, not the kind of “Modern Post” that reporters or politicians or management have in mind, but the kind of public post office each worker... 39: Modern Post and Letter Carriers: What do we know so far…? October 30, 2008 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/083 CUPW is reviewing in detail the changes that Canada Post has in mind for letter carriers in their “Modern Post.” Starting mid-summer, CUPW’s Delivery Group has met weekly with Canada Post. CUPW delegations went to the United Kingdom and Norway, where... 40: International Solidarity and the Modern Post September 25, 2008 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/062 There are some important meetings taking place within the next few months which will assist CUPW in critically analyzing CPC’s plans for their Postal Transformation United States This week, Pam Donato, President of the Minneapolis local of the National Association... 41: July – A busy month for Modern Post August 7, 2008 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/049 Regardless of it being the summer time, Canada Post has been moving forward on their postal transformation and the building of the Modern Post and therefore July has been a busy month for the Modern Post. The Ford Transit Connect tested in Ottawa Canada Post... 42: Canada Post needs to focus on our questions June 4, 2008 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/022 CUPW representatives have been consulting regularly with Canada Post to understand and fight against the negative impact of the Modern Post project on postal workers. While Canada Post has been conducting focus groups with members at the Winnipeg plant, they are failing to... 43: Will the Modern Post Cause More Injuries? May 28, 2008 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/019 During the national consultation meetings, the Union has repeatedly told Canada Post management that it has a responsibility to investigate the impact that changes introduced as part of the “Modern Post” may have on the health and safety of the workers. We are... 44: CUPW and the Modern Post May 7, 2008 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2008-2011/013 On May 1, 2008, CUPW representatives met with CPC management to discuss the plans for “The Modern Post”. The Union explained to management that the union’s objectives are to improve and create jobs. We believe that machines should be used to help workers,... 45: A Truly Modern Post – Forums to discuss future of our work and our post office March 6, 2008 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2005-2008/376 CUPW is part way through a series of local forums and events which are designed to get members and the public talking about what a truly modern public post office would look like. The union’s forums have been organized to coincide with Canada Post’s regional... 46: The “Modern Post” – We’ll Fight for Jobs, Safety and Service November 14, 2007 - Modern Post - Bulletins - 2005-2008/321 On November 5, 2007, the national union met with Canada Post to discuss future changes to the mail processing network. Canada Post has provided the early notice required in the urban operations collective agreement about their plans for new state of the art facilities... Page 1 - 2 - 3

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