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NEWS RELEASE: CUPW Vancouver Local tells Canada Post to get back to the bargaining table

For Immediate Release June 26, 2012

 “It has been one year since the Federal Government introduced unnecessary back to work legislation to end Canada Post’s lockout of CUPW members and nothing has changed” said Robert Mulvin, President of the Vancouver Local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. “In Vancouver unwarranted discipline continues to be meted out, letter carriers continue to be injured, and people are worried about their pensions and post-retirement benefits” he continued.

“The only way to resolve this and to address the real issues facing postal workers is for Canada Post to head back to the bargaining table and work to resolve real issues facing CUPW members” stated Mulvin.

“To mark this day the CUPW Vancouver Local is launching an online video, with postal workers sharing their memories of the lockout,” Mulvin said.

 

For further information:

 

Robert Mulvin

CUPW Vancouver

604-685-6581

lh/CUPE-3338

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SUSPENSION REDUCED AT ARBITRATION!

SUSPENSION REDUCED AT ARBITRATION!

On September 12, 2011, Arbitrator Robert Blasina reduced a five day suspension that was imposed on a Vancouver Mail Service Courier on the grounds of delay of mail. In the facts of the case, the Grievor inadvertently missed the delivery of a Priority Courier item while covering a schedule at the Vancouver Hub on May 14, 2010. At her subsequent disciplinary interview, the Grievor expressed her apology for the mishap. In his debut as an arbitration advocate, Vancouver Local Vice-President Kim Evans argued that Canada Post did not take into account all of the circumstances when imposing the suspension. Indeed, Arbitrator Blasina noted that Canada Post refused to take her apology into account as part of its decision-making process:

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