Work Floor Captain Training July 12^th Friday

Held at: CUPW Vancouver Local Office

#109 – 4238 Lozells Avenue, Burnaby 8am to 4pm

CUPW is only as strong as our work floors are organized, unified around a plan, and willing to mobilize. Union leadership will never have the power to defeat the boss and government on their own. Without mass buy-in from our members to strengthen CUPW from the work floor up, our jobs as postal workers will keep deteriorating.

The corporation is positioned to use Amazon and the pandemic as excuses to cut us down in bargaining in 2023. We must be ready, but our capacity to fight forward will only be proportional to how many of us are committed to building the solidarity of our union, in whatever way we can.

The Building Worker Power campaign is the first time since 1988 that CUPW has committed to a National plan to build up the internal capacity of our members to confront the employer directly on the work floor. For this campaign to succeed we will need hundreds of members to volunteer as work floor captains to be trained to help their co-workers collectively assert their rights.

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Sisters/ Brothers / Cousins:

Postal Workers across the country are planning to have May 30^th as Day of Action to organize the work floors to take back the power. This will send a strong message to the boss that the work floor belongs to the workers.

As you may have seen by now, on one hand Canada Post has shown a bigger deficit and on other hand they have given themselves an enormous number of big bonuses, while some of our members are struggling on various issues like Bullying and Harassment, Article 54 accommodations and an ongoing battle on more day shift positions.

During the negotiations we all need to stand together in Solidarity and show the boss that we are ready to “FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT”. On May 30^th we are asking our members to take part in the day of Action and organize the work floors. You can have work floor meetings, black T shirt day etc.  and loads of pictures to support our negotiators.

The next few months will be very important for us, we will need to show the boss that we DESERVE better. Going forward we will be having monthly day of actions in our local.

On May 30^th We will show the employer that Vancouver local is ready to take on this struggle.

The Struggle Continues …………

In Solidarity,

Anju Parmar, President

Congratulations to brother John Tweed for  Health & Safety Director Position.  ( pending recount)

 

In Solidarity,

Anju Parmar, President