June 8, 2011 – 16:00
Urban Postal Unit Negotiations (2011) / Bulletin
Negotiations Bulletin no. 60
For several years, Canada Post Corporation has boasted that it was selected as one of the Top 100 employers in Canada, by Mediacorp Canada Inc. The criteria used for the selection includes health benefits, financial benefits, vacation and time off, training and skills development, employee communications and community involvement.
Postal workers always knew that the real reason CPC won this award, was due to the collective agreement provisions that have been fought for by the members, and negotiated by the union, often over fierce opposition by the employer.
Now that CPC management is not constrained by our collective agreement, we can see them for what they really are.
Health Benefits: CPC immediately cancelled all health benefits, including dental care, vision care, drug coverage, etc. for employees, their partners and their children. This includes employees on long-term sick leave and disability insurance.
Financial Benefits: CPC has cancelled premiums and allowances, which the law does not require them to provide, including the top-up for workers compensation.
Sick Leave: CPC stopped paying employees who were already on sick leave when the strike began.
Vacation Leave: CPC cancelled all paid vacation leave.
Maternity and Adoption Leave: CPC immediately cancelled the top-up for maternity and adoption leaves.
Training and Skills Development: CPC cancelled the final week of the four-year MAM 11 apprenticeship program, without notice to the participants.
Employee Communications: CPC has consistently issued false and misleading statements about the nature and the cost of the demands of the employees, as represented by the Union.
Community Involvement: CPC has failed to provide letter carrier delivery on many uncovered walks.
Clearly, if CPC was allowed to be the employer they want to be without our collective agreement, they would never have qualified as one of the top 100 Employers.
