Bold campaign may use civil disobedience to protect public postal service

Postal Workers to Deliver Transparency Ultimatum

Media Advisory  

What	NATIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE	ULTIMATUM DELIVERY AT CANADA POST
When	Wednesday, March 15, 11:00 a.m.	Wednesday, March 15, 2 p.m.
Where	Charles-Lynch Room (130-S) Centre Block, Parliament Hill Ottawa	Canada Post Place 2701 Riverside Dr. Ottawa
Who	Deborah Bourque National President, CUPW Denis Lemelin, 2nd National Vice-President, CUPW	Deborah Bourque National President, CUPW Denis Lemelin, 2nd National Vice-President, CUPW

Tomorrow, the president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Deborah Bourque, will deliver a public ultimatum to her Canada Post counterpart, Moya Greene, calling on the Corporation to disclose its plans for public postal services.

The ultimatum is part of “Operation Transparency,” a campaign for Canada Post to publicly disclose all strategic planning documents or face the possibility of non-violent civil disobedience.

The campaign plans will be unveiled during a national press conference to be held at 11 a.m., in Room 130-S of the Centre Block, followed by the delivery of the Ultimatum to Canada Post Place, 2701 Riverside Drive, at 2 p.m.

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