Your public post office delivers campaign-Check out our new website!

The Your public post office delivers campaign is designed to combat closures, privatization and deregulation at Canada Post and get the federal government and corporation to maintain, expand and improve public postal service and jobs.

You can now follow the progress of this campaign through our website (www.cupw-sttp.org) or by going directly to:

Servicepostalpublic.ca (French)
Publicpostoffice.ca (English)

The campaign website features our petition, bulletins, fact sheets, media releases and letters. You can also find out who supports our campaign and get the latest news by clicking on Chronology of events. A few examples from the site follow:

October 16, 2005

Canada Post Profits: Workers Eat Cake
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers protested outside Canada Post headquarters as the corporation celebrated its 24th anniversary with job losses and closures. Postal workers responded to Canada Post's "let them eat cake" attitude by cutting a cake with a special anniversary message: People Before Profits.

October 2, 2005

Demonstration to protest the closure of Quebec City's mail processing plant
Yesterday, in Quebec City, more than 800 people took part in a demonstration to protest the closure of the city's sortation plant at 300, Saint-Paul Street. The demonstration was a clear show of solidarity. Many politicians were there, including Christiane Gagnon, Christian Simard and Roger Clavet from the Bloc Québécois. Claude Larose, Marc Bellemare and Michel Bouchard, all mayoral candidates, represented the municipal government. Bloc MP Christiane Gagnon reaffirmed her determination to make this issue a top priority in the House of Commons. In an emotional moment at the gathering, a petition with 125,000 signatures was presented to Bloc MP Christiane Gagnon, who will submit it to the House of Commons.

September 29, 2005

NDP Support Campaign
The NDP issued a press release today in support of our campaign to stop the Quebec City plant closure. Bill Blaikie, NDP postal critic, also denounced the closure of rural post offices, despite a so-called moratorium by the Liberal government. Exerpts of the statement follow: NDP MP Bill Blaikie has denounced Canada Post's decision to close the Quebec City Sorting Station. This decision will lead to the loss of 302 jobs and will take $16 million from the local economy. As postal critic, Blaikie reiterated the NDP's support for the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).

August 3, 2005

Christiane Gagnon condemns loss of 300 jobs in Quebec City
Christiane Gagnon, Bloc Quebecois MP for Quebec City, denounced the closure of the Quebec City mail processing plant. Excerpts from her communiqué follow: "The closing of the Quebec City's Mail Processing Plant is a harsh blow to the region and I will certainly look into this matter to ensure the decision is reviewed," states Christian Gagnon, federal MP for Quebec City, following the announcement by Canada Post this morning." "Closing the mail sorting centre in Quebec City and transferring operations to Montreal by September 2007 will cause the region to eventually lose 300 well-paid jobs, along with all of the attendant economic consequences. Therefore, I call on social, political, and economic stakeholders to take action to ensure Canada Post reconsiders its decision and keeps the 300 mail processing jobs in Quebec City," the MP went on to say.