Negotiations are still at an impasse between Canada Post and its 55,000 employees who have been on strike for 10 days now.
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Canada Post is offering its employees salary increases of 11.5% over four years, which is far from the union’s demands of 24% over four years.
The management party tries by all means to obtain flexibility from its employees for assignments during the week in order to be able to offer delivery seven days a week.
It thus wishes to improve its competitiveness in this sector of activity.
“Over the past 24 hours, the union has focused on workers it does not represent,” Canada Post said in a statement sent to the media on Sunday.
“For example, he proposes the hiring of contract staff in housekeeping services, to make them full-time Canada Post employees, and resists any change to the remuneration and social benefits of employees who will be hired instead. future,” we add.
For their part, employees who demonstrated Sunday in front of the Canada Post offices in the Saint-Laurent borough, in Montreal, deplore that the employer initiated a lockout following their strike, which deprives them of certain social benefits.
According to the former Quebec director of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Marc Ranger, it is difficult to know when the negotiations will accelerate.
“I think it’s an issue where it’s difficult to make a prediction about when it might be resolved,” he said. It’s extremely difficult because, among other things, one of the fundamental issues is the whole question of the organization of work.”
“Canada Post has one vision of this work organization and the union has another,” he adds. Right there, that’s a major bone. I know that at the mediation level, they decided to tackle the big issues head on. If there were ever a breakthrough on these issues, it could speed things up.”
The public company indicated on Saturday that it had delivered 8 million fewer letters and parcels than over the same period last year since the start of the strike.
More than 85,000 passports cannot be delivered due to this impasse, as they are stuck on the Canada Post delivery network.
