Canadian Post Trade Unions will start voting on Crown Corporation’s latest contract offer on Monday.
The Canadian Postal Workers’ Association urges them to reject the proposal.
The Canada Post is deadlocked when the Trade Union represents about 55,000 postal service employees for more than a year and a half after discussions.
The vote will take place after the Federal Labor Minister Patty Hajdu asked the Canadian Employment Board to enter and give Crown Corporation’s latest offer to the vote.
The offer includes a salary increase of about 13 % over four years, but also increases part-time workers who have been said to have needed to maintain the postal service.
Crown Corporation’s operating losses were $ 10 million per day in June, said Jon Hamilton, Canada Post.
“We hope that our employees will see these offers to provide security on the way forward and will vote to make new collective agreements for them,” he said in his statement.
“If the vote is positive, the tenders will become new collective agreements, which are valid until January 31, 2028. If not, Canada Post will not speculate but to say that uncertainty will continue.”
The Union’s national President Jan Simpson has said that a strong vote not only rejects the offer, but also protects the integrity of the negotiating process.
According to a survey published by the Independent Business Association of Canada, a postage could drive 63 % of attempts to permanently walk permanently from Canada Post.
It said that about 13 percent of small companies already stopped using Canada’s mail after 2024 strike.
CFIB estimates that the work survey costs small companies $ 75-100 million a day.
According to it, more than 70 % of companies responded to disruption by encouraging customers to use digital options, 45 % turned into a private courier, while 27 % were delayed by mail.
