The Minister of Jobs, Patty Hajdu, urged Canada Post on Monday to quickly present a new offer to the Union of Postal Workers on strike.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) turned to the pickets on Thursday after Ottawa announced radical changes in the operations of the Crown Corporation to address their problematic financial situation.
These changes include ending the delivery of Daily Mail, closing some rural postal offices and moving almost all Canadian homes to the mailboxes of the mailboxes; Move that the union calls a direct attack on workers.
In an interview with the Canadian press on Monday, Hajdu did not rule out the federal intervention to end the last strike. But he also said that Canada Post needs to put a new offer on the table quickly and that the union must seriously consider any proposal.
She said the responsibility is in the parties to meet after almost two years of negotiation to draw a new course for postal service with difficulties.
“This union and the corporation have to discover the future of their workforce and how they will transform, together, transform post post to be a viable and sustainable crown corona,” Hajdu said.
“There is no time to waste here or for the corporation or union, once that offer is presented.”
A second strike in Canada Post in less than a year has already begun to affect the businesses that depend on the service, since both parties dig and Ottawa indicates that the proposed cuts that triggered the strike are only the beginning.
Canada Post was preparing to put a new offer on the table on Friday, but is reviewing the proposal after the announcement of the federal government.
Canada’s post spokesman Jon Hamilton said last week that there is still a “significant gap” between Canada Post and the union. He said that the new offer will reflect the changes of the federal government and a broad directive to obtain the postal service in a solid base and reduce the load of taxpayers.
The financial situation of Canada Post is serious and the company states that it was losing more than $ 10 million per day during the summer as work uncertainty extended. The postal service has been based on federal support to maintain the lights on in recent years.
A report by the Industrial Research Commission at the beginning of this year found that Crown Corporation was effectively insolvent and suggested a series of measures to keep it afloat, suggestions that the federal government adopted who whoever adopted in its advertise in its announcement last week.
The Cupw negotiator Jim Gallant said last week, the union understands the financial problems of Canada Post, but the solutions that the federal government offers are “extremes.”
He said the union wants the strike throughout the country to push the federal government to return its review of the Canada post and celebrate a review of the public mandate.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business warned that the strike will have a “mass impact” on small businesses that depend on Canada Post, but the organization encouraged Ottawa to advance with planned reforms.
