Canada Post reviewing union's offer responses as OT ban remains in effect

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 25, 2025 2:01 PM EDT | Last Updated: May 25

Talks betwixt Canada Post and negotiators from its national are expected to resume implicit the adjacent fewer days, its national said Sunday aft the 2 parties met amid warnings of message transportation delays tied to a nationalist prohibition connected overtime for postal workers.

In an day statement, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) said its negotiators had "worked hard to cautiously evaluate" Canada Post's latest offers and hole responses up of the day's gathering with the leader and the mediators.

Union president Jan Simpson said successful the connection that the national learned astatine 12:50 p.m. ET that Canada Post had near the premises to reappraisal documents from the union, and that the leader whitethorn instrumentality a fewer days to respond.

"We would anticipation the corp is backmost to america arsenic soon arsenic possible. Although talks continue, the nationwide overtime prohibition remains successful effect," Simpson wrote.

In an email to CBC News, Canada Post confirmed that it received the union's responses, adding it volition "review them successful detail."

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Canada Post presented its latest offers to the national connected Wednesday, which included a hike successful wage and plans to rotation retired a fleet of part-time workers.

The CUPW requested a two-week "truce" to see the offer, but that was rejected by the employer.

Sunday's gathering was acceptable to beryllium the archetypal of the weekend, a spokesperson for the Crown corp had said. A mediator was connected manus to enactment with the parties who person been deadlocked for months successful efforts to unafraid a caller corporate bargaining agreement.

In an earlier email, CUPW criticized Canada Post for rejecting its truce proposal, which it said near negotiators with lone a fewer days to comb done the ineligible wording of the 700-page offer.

"If instability hangs implicit these negotiations, it's owed to Canada Post's uncompromising stance and clip management," the national wrote successful a statement.

The astir caller statement betwixt the parties, which was extended by the Canada Industrial Relations Board aft Ottawa intervened successful the month-long holiday-season onslaught precocious past year, expired Thursday.

While CUPW issued a 72-hour onslaught announcement earlier successful the week that could person seen workers locomotion disconnected the occupation archetypal happening Friday morning, the national alternatively issued a nationalist prohibition connected taking overtime enactment while it considered the latest deal.

The national said successful a bulletin to members past week that Canada Post's astir caller offers "fall short" connected wages and different cardinal sticking points successful the negotiations.

Canada Post said the offers bespeak its fiscal realities.

An Industrial Inquiry Commission acceptable up by the national authorities recovered the postal work was efficaciously "bankrupt" and recommended a bid of structural changes successful a study released earlier this month.

That included recommendations to signifier retired regular door-to-door transportation and instrumentality a "dynamic routing" strategy that could spot message carriers' routes alteration connected a regular basis.