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Our Constitution (Articles 7.06 and 7.07) sets out monthly dues for all members and/or employees. The only difference between part-time, full-time, and temporary employees is in determining whether dues will be collectible for any given month.

Part-time and full-time employees will owe a dues payment for every month, even when they are on Leave With-out Pay (LWOP). Temporary employees will only pay dues if they work in a month and arrears will NOT accumulate when they have not.

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The Union met with the employer on Wednesday August 14, 2013 to review some of the issues that have been plaguing the restructure at Depot 74/99 and from that the impact on the MSC’s.

At that consultation the employer reviewed the start times and proposed changes to those start times. The Corporation in it’s rush to complete the restructure had failed to properly add the morning breaks prior to the departure of the routes so most routes had to be moved backward by fifteen (15) minutes. Continue reading “DEPOT 74/MSC UPDATE: August 16, 2013”

CUPW is hiring four co-ordinators to help with campaigns relating to the review of the Canadian Postal Service Charter, the attack on the Rand formula, service expansion and reduction at Canada Post and the upcoming federal election. For more information on these campaigns, see Perspective May 2013 at: http://www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/14537/la_id/1 Continue reading “CUPW is Hiring Four Members as Co-ordinators”

Over the last few restructures, the Corporation has been refusing to test the loading and unloading of mail mobiles.

Under Chapter 7 of the Letter Carrier Route Restructuring Manual, the employer is obligated to do a random selection of 20% of the mobile routes, or at a minimum, one route for each type in the station.

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Letter Carrier Shop Stewards

We have a schedule of our upcoming Letter Carrier – Shop steward meetings for February – April, 2013.

As union activists, taking the time to learn together, communicate & plan is the key to the work that needs doing for the Union. We have reserved space in the board room at the union hall & are using the same venue downtown that we have used successfully in the past as it has space & is usually pretty quiet in the later afternoon. Both venues are easily accessed by sky train/bus & the Union Hall has free parking outside or near by, the parking meters around 349 West Georgia are not the most expensive & it is a short walk from there to VFS.

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