{"id":14556,"date":"2016-04-04T18:25:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T23:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=14556"},"modified":"2016-04-04T18:25:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T23:25:31","slug":"canada-post-demands-huge-rollbacks-attempts-to-provoke-a-labour-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/04\/04\/canada-post-demands-huge-rollbacks-attempts-to-provoke-a-labour-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Canada Post Demands Huge Rollbacks \u2013 Attempts to Provoke a Labour Dispute&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">Monday April 4, 2016 &#8211; <\/span>OTTAWA \u2013 In what postal workers say is a \u201ccynical attempt to provoke a labour dispute,\u201d Canada Post Corporation has filed for conciliation surprisingly early on in its negotiation process with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis is unprecedented in our history,\u201d said Mike Palecek, national president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cupw.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Union of Postal Workers<\/a>, \u201cCanada Post has not even finished giving us their demands and they are already preparing to push matters to a head\u201d. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14557\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/canada-post-union-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"canada-post-union\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/canada-post-union-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/canada-post-union.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The long list of concessions demanded by the Crown Corporation so far includes hefty rollbacks on pensions, benefits and job security. Canada Post negotiators have refused to consider any of the union&#8217;s proposals, including ideas for service expansion and pay equity for the female-dominated rural carriers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn June 2011, Deepak Chopra had no scruples about shutting down the postal system and locking workers out,\u201d said Palecek. \u201cThese Harper appointees want to break our union at any cost, with no regard for the public and the services they rely on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The union also points out that a postal review is in the works and that Canada Post\u2019s actions could interfere with that process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada Post should be preparing for public consultations about the future of the post office,\u201d said Palecek. \u201cNot declaring war on its workers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday April 4, 2016 &#8211; OTTAWA \u2013 In what postal workers say is a \u201ccynical attempt to provoke a labour dispute,\u201d Canada Post Corporation has filed for conciliation surprisingly early on in its negotiation process with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. \u201cThis is unprecedented in our history,\u201d said Mike Palecek, national president of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14557,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-new-bytes","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14559,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14556\/revisions\/14559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}