Canada Post workers issue strike notice, poised to hit picket lines Friday
By Canadian Press on May 19, 2025.
MONTREAL — Canada Post says it has received strike notices from the union representing some 55,000 postal workers, with operations poised to shut down by the end of the week.
The Crown corporation says the union informed it that employees plan to hit the picket line starting Friday morning at midnight.
A work stoppage would affect millions of residents and businesses who typically receive more than two billion letters and roughly 300 million parcels a year via the service.
Canada Post says the disruption would deepen the company’s grave financial situation and both sides should focus on hammering out a deal.
Earlier on Monday, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers said in an email it was “still in the process of trying to negotiate collective agreements” for its members, including nearly 23,000 mail carriers.
On Friday, a report on Canada Post highlighted its flagging business model and recommended foundational changes, including phasing out daily door-to-door letter mail delivery for individual residences.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 19, 2025.
Christopher Reynolds, The Canadian Press
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Time to shut down this money pit that continues to dig a deeper hole while employees demand more and more and more and more!
For the first nine months of 2024, Canada Post’s loss from operations was $803 million, compared to $662 million in the same period of the previous year and cumulative totals since 2018 are over $3 billion!
They have no hope of recovery at this point and the taxpayers are on the hook, while the pigs at the trough unions keep on pushing for more!
They think Canadians will support their greed! Let me remind you that unions are just another corporation attached to the corporation, paid for by union dues and other funding! They don’t care if Canada Post goes down!