Solidarity Rallies for Postal Workers

Let’s Tell Canada Post to Negotiate Fair Collective Agreements

Media Advisory

OTTAWA - For nearly a year, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has been bargaining with Canada Post for fair wages, safe working conditions, the right for all workers to retire with dignity and the expansion of public postal services for all communities. Throughout this process, Canada Post has not dropped its proposed rollbacks and is asking for many of our major issues to be resolved through arbitration instead of at the bargaining table. 

When unionized workers make gains, it brings widespread benefits to other workers and communities. Labour and union allies are showing up for postal workers this Thursday to let Canada Post and the federal government know that they support postal workers, and to demand that Canada Post come to the bargaining table with real solutions to help workers, the public post office, and the people we serve across the country.

What:  Solidarity Rallies

Who:  CUPW members, Labour Leaders, Workers

When and Where: November 7                     

• Ottawa – Office of the Prime Minister and the Privy Council Office, 80 Wellington Street, 12 (noon) EST
• Toronto – Gateway Facility, 4567 Dixie Road, Mississauga, 12 pm (noon) EST
• CANCELLED Montreal – Montreal Processing Plant, 555 Rue McArthur, Saint-Laurent, 2 pm EST
• Stoney Creek – Stoney Creek Processing Plant, 393 Millen Road, 2 pm EST
• Halifax – Armdale Rotary, 4 pm AST (meeting at 3:45 pm AST at the St James Anglican Church parking lot, 2668 Joseph Howe Drive)
• Surrey – Surrey Main Post Office, 10688 King George Boulevard, 2 pm PST
• Nanaimo – Nanaimo Mail Processing Plant, 1847 East Wellington Road, 2 pm PST
• Victoria – Victoria Mail Processing Plant, 4181 Glanford Avenue, 2 pm PST

Additionally, a Solidarity Rally will take place Friday November 8 at the St. John’s Mail Processing Plant, 98 Kenmount Road, in St. John’s, Newfoundland at 12 pm (noon) NST. 

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For additional information contact Emilie Tobin at 343-598-2944 or etobin@cupw-sttp.org .