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Canada Post offers a 13.59% wage increase over four years but removes signing bonuses and includes provisions for job cuts and rural post office closures.
- The Canadian Union of Postal Workers stated that Canada Post's latest contract offers are a major step backward for workers.
- Canada Post's new offers remove a previously promised signing bonus and propose job cuts, despite a claimed 13.59 percent wage increase over four years.
- Canada Post maintains that their offers are within the corporation's financial limits while ensuring good jobs and benefits for employees.
- CUPW criticized Canada Post for offering terms similar to those rejected two months ago, asserting that the offers are unacceptable.
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Canada Post’s New Offers to Union Include Job Cuts Provisions, No Signing Bonus
Canada Post’s latest offers to the union representing its striking postal workers contain many of the same provisions that were part of its “best and final” offers in May, but add provisions related to expected job cuts and remove a signing bonus. The offers presented to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) on Oct. 3 come just over a week after the federal government announced a series of measures aimed at curbing the corporation’s financ…
Winnipeg Free Press
Canada Post union says latest contract offer is step backwards
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Canada Post takes signing bonus off the table in latest offer to union
Canada Post's latest offer to the union representing 55,000 striking postal workers includes a number of measures from its last offer — while removing a signing bonus the corporation says it can no longer afford.
The union representing Canada Post workers believes that the Crown corporation is turning "the process of collective bargaining in derision with these latest insulting offers." In a press release released on Friday, the Union of Postal Workers (STTP) expressed disappointment at these offers, which it believes represent an important "not backwards." "We waited 45 days to receive offers that are worse than those we rejected in August," said Jan Si…
Le Charlevoisien
The union representing Canada Post workers believes that the Crown corporation is making a significant "step backwards" with its latest contract offers. In a press release issued on Friday, the Union des travailleurs et travailleurs des postes (STTP) expressed disappointment with offers "that are worse" than those rejected in August. Canada Post submitted on Friday an offer that included many clauses from its previous "final offers" in May, but …
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