After negotiations halted between Canada Publish and the postal employees’ union final week, the Crown company despatched a brand new “framework” to the union in hopes of reaching an settlement.
On the time the brand new framework was introduced on Sunday, Dec. 1, Canada Publish mentioned it could not offer extra particulars; nevertheless, the union has responded.
The Canadian Union of Postal Staff, which represents the roughly 55,000 postal employees who went on strike on Nov. 15, mentioned on Tuesday there are nonetheless 4 key points that want addressing to attain negotiated collective agreements.
The 4 points are what the union calls: honest wages, protected working situations, retiring with dignity and enlargement of public postal providers.
By way of wages, neither facet has launched its present supply/demand, however beforehand the union has referred to as for a 22 per cent increase over 4 years, whereas Canada Publish has supplied 11.5 per cent over the identical interval.
The union says rising neighbourhood mail volumes and the introduction of separate type from supply (SSD) — that means letter carriers spend a full shift solely delivering and sorters work indoors sorting mail — have made situations much less protected. The union says carriers want time to organize neighbourhood mail, so they aren’t overburdened. Moreover, late begin instances additionally want what the union calls “real fixes” so carriers aren’t working at the hours of darkness.
For the retirement piece, the union needs the outlined profit pension plan maintained for each present and future workers. In keeping with the union, Canada Publish is proposing to modify new hires to an outlined contribution pension plan.
By way of increasing public postal providers, the union needs Canada Publish to introduce providers that different postal providers world wide have executed, similar to postal banking and including electrical automobile charging stations at submit workplaces.
Earlier this yr, Canada Publish introduced will probably be providing chequing and financial savings accounts, with a plan to launch someday in 2025, beginning with workers earlier than the banking providers are rolled out to the general public.
The particular mediator, who was appointed to assist the 2 sides come to an settlement, has not but referred to as the 2 sides again to the bargaining desk. Negotiations halted on Nov. 26.
Letters to Santa
There’s a slight replace to Canada Publish’s letters to Santa program.
The postal service eliminated the deadline (beforehand Dec. 6) for mailing your letter to Santa.
“We cannot guarantee delivery dates, but Santa does respond to all letters he receives,” the Canada Publish Santa web page states.
The postal service says that a couple of million letters from world wide are despatched to Santa annually and the Canada Publish program has been working for greater than 40 years.
No stamp is required to mail your letter to Santa from inside Canada.
Extra info on this system is obtainable at canadapost.ca/santa.
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