Canada Post Delivers Suspensions

Canada Post Delivers Suspensions

On October 9, 2008, CUPW members were asked to wear a button that states “Your Public Post Office Delivers- For Now” to show opposition to postal deregulation and to create public awareness. In true Canada Post fashion, they met this request with its standard military style of management; issue 24 Hr notices of interview, issue emergency suspensions and threaten suspension to anyone who refuses to remove the button.

One of the suspended on CBC Radio One
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Canada Post is able to provide universal postal rates and service because of the profits that are generated from its exclusive privilege to deliver first class letters. Without that exclusive privilege, Canada’s universal postal service would to be compromised. Canada Post is a public post office, it serves all Canadians, and deregulation infringes on Canada Post’s exclusive privilege to collect, transmit and deliver national and international letters within Canada. What ever happened to an informed public? What ever happened to transparency? If Canada Post really wanted an informed public, why did they meet this campaign with such a heavy handed approach? Continue reading “Canada Post Delivers Suspensions”

October 16, 2008

Back to the future: Canada Post attempts to put a muzzle on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

On October 8, 2008, Canada Post issued a corporative directive to its supervisory staff (“team leaders”) regarding a button that was first distributed by CUPW without incident in 2005. The button, “Your public post office delivers… for now” was recently distributed as part of the ongoing campaign regarding the closed-door strategic review that was initiated in April 2008 by Steven Harper’s Conservative Government.

In that corporate directive, Canada Post’s team leaders were instructed to direct employees to remove the buttons under threat of suspension. Decades ago, Canada Post management defined itself by imposing such ultimatums. It would now appear that the Moya Greene’s Modern Post is reverting to a labour relations approach that belongs in the past.

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October 10, 2008

Canada Elections Act and Time Off To Vote

Given that the Federal Election has been scheduled for October 14, 2008 and that it follows the long weekend, the Union is concerned that all employees are given time to exercise their right to vote.

The Canada Elections Act entitles an employee to three consecutive hours on polling day for the purpose of casting their ballots. If an employee’s hours of work do not allow him or her three consecutive hours to vote, the employer must allow him or her sufficient time off to allow three consecutive hours for that purpose.

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October 9, 2008

Button Removal

Freedom of Speech: don’t let Harper and Canada Post take this fundamental right away.

Union activists throughout the country have been asked to wear a button tomorrow that states “Your Public Post Office Delivers – For Now”. We want to point out the secret plans of the Harper Government to justify the deregulation of Canada Post and the deletion of the exclusive privilege to deliver first class mail currently held by Canada Post.

LINK: Take a stand on Postal deregulation – Wear a button

It is clear from the employer’s instructions that Canada Post management have been instructed to deny our legal rights of freedom of expression won in many arbitration awards.
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October 4, 2008