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 financial losses as mail volumes continue to decline.
The changes include ending daily mail delivery, closing some rural post offices, and moving nearly all Canadian households to community mailboxes, Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound said in a Sept. 25 statement. The changes align with a May 15 report by Commissioner William Kaplan of the Industrial Inquiry Commission, which found the corporation effectively insolvent and suggested a number of measures to keep it afloat….