Banking on a Future for Canada Post

altOctober 16th is Canada Post’s 32nd anniversary as a Crown corporation. CUPW National will be marking this anniversary with an action in Ottawa. This action will emphasize that Canada Post cannot cut its way to a better future and that it has another option that has worked at postal administrations around the world. The Corporation could add banking and financial services to improve its financial picture and preserve public postal services and jobs.

To this end, CUPW will be employing a “Banking on a future for Canada Post” theme on October 16th.

As part of this action we will be distributing buttons with the same message to all members in the Vancouver local.

We ask our members to please support this action by wearing these buttons on October 16th, 2013.

Management needs to know that the members understand that the corporation has options other than cutting and that they support the union’s position on postal banking.

In Solidarity,

Andy Henderson
Secretary-Treasurer
CUPW Vancouver

Postal Transformation (PT #13):ACCOMMODATION IN THE PPC

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(PT #13) Accommodation in the PPC

Many accommodated members are concerned about how they will be placed into an accommodation in the new Processing Plant. Currently the Union is working on putting together a bid for the new plant. We have managed to come to an agreement for the P04s and members will be bidding for the assignments by seniority.

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Sunday BBQ Cancelled

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Due to the

rainfall forecast

for this Sunday,

we have decided

to cancel the

pre-GMM BBQ.

Please join us for our

(indoor) General Membership

Meeting which will begin at

1:00 PM as scheduled.

Postal Transformation (PT #12): UPCOMING OPEN ASSIGNMENT BID

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UPCOMING OPEN ASSIGNMENT BID

CUPW proposed an assignment bid procedure to fill assignments at the new plant (PPC) at consultations last week. We proposed a one-step bid. There will be no need to bid twice (first for a section and then for a shift). Instead, everybody will bid for a section and shift at the same time. Management has insisted that the bidding begin on October 3, 2013. More details of the bid will come out in the near future.

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Postal Transformation (PT): Report by the Modern Post Committee from the Health and Safety Tour of the Pacific Processing Centre on August 27, 2013

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Report by the Modern Post Committee from the Health and Safety Tour of the Pacific Processing Centre on August 27, 2013

Brothers and Sisters,

The new plant (PPC) is a massive site that stretches approximately 0.5 kms from one end to the other.

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