Federal government to put latest Canada Post offer up for union vote

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 12, 2025 10:06 AM EDT | Last Updated: 14 minutes ago

Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says she's going to enactment Canada Post's latest offers to unionized postal workers up for a ballot successful the anticipation of breaking a longstanding impasse betwixt the parties.

She says successful a societal media station that it's successful the "public interest" to springiness members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers an accidental to ballot connected the offers, which Canada Post says are its "final" proposals.

Hajdu says that the Canada Industrial Relations Board volition beryllium directed to behaviour the ballot "as soon arsenic possible."

Canada Post and its national person been negotiating for astir a twelvemonth and a fractional connected a caller woody for workers, portion the postal service's fiscal plight has grown worse.

The national has pushed backmost connected the thought of a rank ballot connected the latest connection and has called for arbitration.

Canada Post has argued arbitration would beryllium excessively dilatory and has asked the national authorities to enactment the latest offers up to a vote.

More to come.