Friday October 10, 2025 | NATIONAL
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
Starting Saturday October 11 at 6 AM local time the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) union will move from a nation-wide strike action to rotating strikes.
That will see the movement of some mail and parcels.
Union locals will be informed of their rotation schedules closer to the time that they will occur.
This was announced by CUPW on October 9 ahead of the Thanksgiving Long Weekend which runs Saturday October 11 through Monday October 13.
Blend of jobs & public service:
“While this will start mail and parcels moving, while continuing our struggle for good collective agreements and a strong public postal service,” said CUPW President Jan Simpson in a news release yesterday.
CUPW says their decision to strike was not taken lightly. “Postal workers would much rather have new collective agreements and be delivering mail instead of taking strike action,” said Simpson.
“We will continue our fight for strong public services, good jobs, and a sustainable public post office for all Canadians,” says CUPW.
Still miles apart:
CUPW says their continued strike action is due to what they see as “the Government announced its plans to allow Canada Post to gut our postal service and slash thousands of our jobs”.
CUPW feels their employer has “sought to chip away at postal services, worker rights and good jobs” and says the latest Canad Post offers are “an outright attack on public service”.
CUPW says they have a meeting next week with Minister Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement Joel Lightbound in followup to their October 8 meeting with the Minister and his staff.
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- Canada Post preparing new global offers for CUPW (September 19, 2025)
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- Canada Post unionized employees may vote on Canada Post’s final offers (July 18, 2025)
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