By Rosalind Russell – The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has launched a nationwide overtime ban for employees in both the Urban and the Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers bargaining units.
This is a legal strike action and means that CUPW-represented employees will refuse to work overtime across the company.
As a result, Canada Post will continue operating, but customers may experience delays.
It’s unclear how CUPW’s strike action may evolve.
At this time, there are no rotating strikes or national work stoppages.
The union issued strike notices earlier this week indicating that it intended to begin strike activity as of today, midnight, local time, unless the parties reached agreements before then.
The terms and conditions of employment for CUPW-represented employees in the Urban and RSMC bargaining units have not changed.
Meanwhile Canada Post says last night they met with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers at their request, with the assistance of mediators.
The meeting lasted less than half an hour with CUPW raising only a small number of the many outstanding issues in an informal manner.
It was not enough to demonstrate meaningful progress.
Canada Post has asked them to come back, with urgency, with a response to the Global Offers we presented to the union on May 21.
Photo by Rosalind Russell
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