Bulletin #99
June 12, 2025
Leadership and Negotiation Committees Recommend to Vote No
Today, June 12, the Minister of Jobs and Families, Patty Hajdu, has chosen to accept Canada Post’s request to force a vote on the Employer’s May 28 offers for both CUPW bargaining units.
The Minister’s decision is yet another assault on our collective bargaining rights, just the latest we have faced in a matter of just months. In December, former Minister of Labour, Steven MacKinnon used section 107 to put our legal strike on “pause,” and section 108 to strike an Industrial Inquiry Commission (IIC).
These repeated government attacks have poisoned the bargaining process. The Government’s actions have not helped to bring this impasse closer to a resolution. They have only pushed us further down the road.
In all instances, the Government has assisted with the Employer: “pausing” our legal strike action, establishing an IIC with terms favouring the Employer’s positions, and now forcing a vote against the Union’s clear opposition.
We will not stand by as the Government and Canada Post work together to try to undermine our hard-fought rights, gut our collective agreements and re-write them on their own terms. Postal workers know how to fight back. We’ve done it before, and we’re ready to do it again.
CUPW will call all on all postal workers to stand together and VOTE NO to the Employer’s offers.
Our national overtime ban remains in effect.
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In solidarity,
Jan Simpson
National President