Canada Post in nationwide shut down
Canada Post has been left with “no choice” but to suspended operations across the country.
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Canada Post says volumes down 50% as strikes continue
Canada Post has hit out at the Union responsible for ongoing industrial action, after mail volumes across the country fell as much as 50%.
Read MoreUnion files for conciliation to aid Canada Post talks
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has filed for conciliation to aid its ongoing negotiations with Canada Post over a new labour agreement.
Read MoreCanada Post signals changes for postal delivery
UNI’s Canadian affiliate, CUPW has advised that Canada Post has told the union that it is to introduce a technology update programme, called “Modern Post”. A central part of Canada Post’s “Modern Post” automation program is the new delivery model for letter carriers and Mail Sorting Centres. The main points of this new model include:
• 80pct of letter carrier routes in major urban areas to be affected, as well as about 35pct of all RSMC routes.
• About 90pct of letter-sized mail will be sequenced to line of delivery by machines in plants.
• Two or three letter carriers will use each A-62 case in shifts to sort the rest of the letter mail, flats, and packets.
• 80-85pct of letter carrier routes would be motorized where the new “Delivery Model” is in place.
• Motorized letter carrier routes would deliver all items for their delivery area, including parcels.
• Foot routes will remain in high density areas, generally the downtown core of cities with MSC parcel delivery in these areas.
Labour provides some balance at the Rutgers conference on postal economics
At a special session for Labour at the recent Rutgers sponsored conference taking place in Portugal on Postal and Delivery Economics, three union presenters tried to add some balance to the proceedings by giving the view of labour on liberalisation and deregulation in the postal industry.
Billy Hayes from the CWU, UK, presented a paper that showed what has happened to the UK mail market and in particular to the problems Royal Mail now have in remaining a viable provider of the Universal Postal Service since the UK postal market had been liberalised. Billy told the conference that in the current review of Royal Mail it had been shown that liberalisation had been of no benefit to small and medium sized business and ordinary consumers, it had only been to the advantage of large companies.
Geoff Bickerton of the Canadian union, CUPW, told the conference that the majority of stakeholders in Canada and the United Sates did not favour a deregulation of the postal service which was being promoted by big business and the potential competitors. He said that the response to his research had been that stakeholders were saying, “if it isn’t broken don’t try and fix it!” Jim Sauber and John Baldwin in their paper argued that the failure to resolve the issue of historical pension liabilities was putting an unjustified burden onto the operating costs of the postal operators. They said that previous failures to properly fund pension pans now meant that postal operators now had huge liabilities that threatened the reform of the postal market and the ongoing viability of the universal service.
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