Announcement: Canada Post employees will resume work on Tuesday
In a statement late on Sunday, Canada Post said the board had decided the company and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are at an impasse in their negotiations.
“As a result, the CIRB has ordered employees to return to work and postal operations to begin to resume at 8am local time on December 17, 2024,” Canada Post stated.
The company said it had also “put forward an offer to implement a wage increase of five percent for employees, which was proposed in the company’s last global offer.”
It wasn’t clear whether the union had accepted that offer. Canada Post said the offer – if accepted – would be backdated “to the day after each collective agreement expired,” with a payment of $1,000 “before Christmas” for all regular employees and $500 for temporary employees. Remaining retroactive pay would be “forwarded by the end of January.”