By Cheryl Jahn

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Postal Workers to vote on a contract offer

Jul 18, 2025 | 3:32 PM

PRINCE GEORGE – After 19 months of negotiations, Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) are at an impasse.

“The sticking points on the offer are the fact that they want to completely reconfigure the way that mail is delivered in this country,” says the President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, Local 812, Nicole Chouinard. “They want to uproot the Postal Charter that has existed since the dawn of Canada. They want to make us do more work for less money. They want to cut people’s pensions, benefits, the whole nine yards for new hires. There are countless sticking points.”

“The sticking points have largely revolved around changing some of the ways that we work,” says Jon Hamilton, the Vice President of Communications for Canada Post. “And I think anyone in any industry, the way we work today is a lot different than it was 10 or 20 years ago. It has not changed in the last 10 to 20 years, and it means that we have been losing a lot of business in the parcel business because Canadians today want to order something on a Friday and get it delivered on a Saturday.”

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Canada Post calls this a final offer, which includes wage increases over four years, the creation of new part-time positions and phased changes to the delivery model.

An Industrial Inquiry Commission found Canada Post is facing an existential crisis – it’s deeply in the red.

“The losses have been mounting. We’ve lost several billion dollars over the last few years, and we’re going to continue to do that unless we can start to make the changes. So the Industrial Inquiry Commission was held over January and February of this year. We participated, as did the Union, and it became pretty clear that the situation is dire.”

Given that, Chouinard says it’s worrisome.

“It is a valid concern. It is hard for us as workers because we have watched Canada Post make business decisions that have been in a backwards direction for years. This isn’t new. They are making choices that are being detrimental to the business and then using that against us when negotiations come along.”

For Chouinard, there’s only one viable option.

“Going back to the bargaining table. Unequivocally, that’s all we’ve wanted. The only group that has walked away from the bargaining table from the start was Canada Post. We’ve been ready to negotiate the whole time.”