Campaign to stop Closures, Privatization and Deregulation at Canada Post

Resolution on People’s Postal Declaration
(July 23, 2010/ Our Vision of the Post Office / Resolutions)

WHEREAS Canada Post is spending $2.5 billion on new plants, vehicles, equipment and other items to modernize our public post office. WHEREAS the corporation is expecting to save millions annually from modernization, largely through productivity gains that pave the way for Canada Post to eliminate thousands of jobs in communities all across the country. WHEREAS Canada Post is also making cuts to service by closing post offices, eliminating rural home delivery, removing street letterboxes...

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Resolution on Canadian Postal Service Charter and Cuts to Public Postal Service and Jobs
(July 23, 2010/ Our Vision of the Post Office / Resolutions)

WHEREAS Canada Post plans on cutting thousands of jobs in hundreds of communities across the country by modernizing and reviewing its operations and privatizing philatelic and call centres. WHEREAS Canada Post is also cutting services by eliminating rural mail box delivery, closing post offices, removing street letter boxes and other means. WHEREAS these cuts are indicative of a Canada Post that increasingly puts commercial interests before the public interest. WHEREAS the...

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Senate committee rejects partial deregulation of Canada Post in budget bill
(July 9, 2010/ Your Public Post Office Delivers Campaign / Bulletins)

The Senate’s Standing Committee on National Finance rejected four measures in the federal budget bill, including a clause that would partially deregulate Canada Post (Part 15 of C-9). The measure relating to Canada Post was rejected in a tie vote of six to six. In the Senate, a question is defeated if there is a tie. Five Liberal Senators and one independent Senator voted “no” when they were asked if the clause deregulating Canada Post should be accepted. On...

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Joint Campaign to Preserve Public Postal Service and Jobs
(June 25, 2010/ Your Public Post Office Delivers Campaign / Bulletins)

CUPW and the Union of Postal Communications Employees – Public Service Alliance of Canada (UPCE-PSAC) have joined forces on a campaign to deal with an unparallelled assault on public postal service and jobs. Our objectives: Ensure Canada Post does not destroy hundreds of temporary jobs and thousands of positions in the course of reviewing and modernizing its operations. Stop the privatization of Canada Post Call Centres and the National Philatelic Centre, as well as the elimination...

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Urgent Request: Ask Senators to help defeat partial deregulation of Canada Post
(June 11, 2010/ Your Public Post Office Delivers Campaign / Bulletins)

The federal government is attempting to push partial deregulation of Canada Post through Parliament in Part 15 of its omnibus budget bill (Bill C-9). Bill C-9 has made it through the House of Commons and is now in the Senate. The Senate Standing Committee on National Finance begins its study of the budget bill on June 14th. The Committee will report to the Senate by July 31st. A number of Senators have expressed concern about the size and nature of the budget bill. Bill C-9 is filled with a...

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Canadian Postal Service Charter Needs Work
(June 4, 2010/ Strategic Review of Canada Post / Fact Sheets)

On Saturday, September 12, 2009, the federal Conservatives quietly announced a Canadian Postal Service Charter that outlines the government’s expectations for Canada Post in regard to service standards and other matters. The Charter largely reiterates existing policy and includes an expectation that Canada Post will maintain “the moratorium on the closure of rural post offices.” The Charter also acknowledges that providing postal services to rural areas is an integral...

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Canadian Union of Postal Workers Proposes Alternative to Save Orleans Post Office
(May 25, 2010/ Your Public Post Office Delivers Campaign / Media Releases)

OTTAWA, May 25 - The only public post office in Orleans will be closing its doors unless the public gets involved. Canada Post plans to shut down the Orleans Retail Postal Outlet located at 1479 Youville Drive. Dan L'Abbé has been working at Canada Post for 34 years and has spent the past 2 years behind the retail counter of the Orleans Post Office. L’Abbe says his customers like the location, right off the Queensway and close to Jeanne D'Arc Boulevard. “I can’t...

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Canadian Union of Postal Workers Proposes Alternative to Save Orleans Post Office
(May 21, 2010/ Your Public Post Office Delivers Campaign / Media Advisories)

Media Advisory What Information picket at the Orléans Post Office to protest the closing of the only public post office in the area When Tuesday May 25 from 8 am – 11 am. Where 1479 Youville Drive, Orléans, Ontario Who Denis Lemelin, National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, is scheduled to speak at 8:30 am. For more information, contact Dave Jenkins,...

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National Farmers Union Submission to the House of Common Standing Committee on Finance Regarding Canada Post and Part 15 of Bill C-9
(May 20, 2010/ Your Public Post Office Delivers Campaign / Submissions and Conference Papers)

The National Farmers Union (NFU) would like to thank the Standing Committee on Finance for giving us the opportunity to present our views on Part 15 of Bill C-9. The NFU is the only voluntary, direct-membership national farm organization in Canada. Our organization represents thousands of farm families across the country. Our membership takes a keen interest in the future of Canada Post because rural residents are heavily dependent on the mail—they conduct their business...

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Presentation by Hassan Yussuff, Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance Regarding ″An Act to Implement Certain Provisions of the Budget Tabled in Parliament on March 4, 2010 and Other Measures″ — Bill C-9 (Part 15)
(May 20, 2010/ Your Public Post Office Delivers Campaign / Submissions and Conference Papers)

Introduction On behalf of the 3.2 million members of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), we want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to appear before your committee on the important public interest issues that are raised by Part 15 of Bill C-9. The CLC brings together Canada’s national and international unions along with the provincial and territorial federations of labour and 130 district labour councils whose members work in virtually all sectors of the Canadian...

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