The unionized workers in Canada Post begin to vote on the last offer of contracts of the Crown Corporation on Monday.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers urges to reject the proposal.
Canada Post is at a dead point with the union that represents approximately 55,000 postal service workers after more than a year and a half of conversations.
The vote occurs after the Federal Minister of Federal Jobs, Patty Hajdu, asked the Canadian Industrial Relations Board to intervene and vote the last offer of the Crown Corporation.
The offer includes salary increases of approximately 13 percent in four years, but also adds part -time workers who have said that they are necessary to keep the postal service afloat.
The operational losses of the Crown Corporation amounted to $ 10 million per day in June, said the Post Canada spokesman Jon Hamilton.
“We hope that our employees will see these offers provide certainty for the way ahead and vote yes to make their new collective agreements,” he said in a statement.
“If the vote is positive, the offers become new collective agreements as of January 31, 2028. If not, Post Canada will not speculate more than say that uncertainty will continue.”
The president of the National Union, Jan Simpson, said that a solid vote would not only reject the offer, but also protect the integrity of the negotiation process.
A postal strike could boost 63 percent of companies to get away from Canada Post permanently, according to a survey published Monday by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
He said that about 13 percent of small businesses already stopped using Post Canada after the strike of 2024.
CFIB estimates that the job stop costs small businesses between $ 75 million to $ 100 million every day.
He says that more than 70 percent of the companies responded to interruptions by encouraging customers to use digital options, 45 percent resorted to private emails, while 27 percent delayed mail.
