The arbitration award also provided retirees with health care for agricultural and subural workers, with the duty period beginning either on January 1, 2004, or when the members became employees for the first time. These workers also receive 75 per cent of their regular salary from Canada Post if they are free to work due to a service injury after a successful entitlement to the compensation committee. Pending a decision by the WCB, they receive 70 per cent of their normal salary. • reinstatement of the two collective agreements with CUPW, including all workers` benefits, for the duration of the cooling-off period; CUPW`s last collective agreement was signed in 2012 and expired on January 31, 2016. The RSMC collective agreement expired in December 2015. Salary increases will also result in a post-clearance pension adjustment, cupw said in an update to members, as their five highest-paid years at Canada Post become retroactively higher. Postal employees who retired after the first salary increase will receive an increase in their future monthly pension cheques as well as retroactive increases that go back to their first pension cheque or deposit. But the increased retirement premiums are also deducted from the annual reimbursement. According to the union, Canada Post has hinted that adjustments are unlikely to be made until December 2020. In 1981, Canada Post was transformed from a government department into a crown corporation, responding to a long-standing demand from the union. It was hoped that the creation of a crown corporation governed by the Canada Labour Act would improve relations between Canada Post and its union.

While strikes were less frequent, shifting strikes took place in 1987 and 1991 against plans to privatize post offices, both ended by reintegration legislation and also saw attempts by Canada Post to break the strike with strikebreakers. However, three smaller unions remain at Canada Post. The Canadian Association of Postmasters and Assistants has 12,000 agricultural workers, the Canadian Postal Officials Association has 3,400 superiors, and the Postal Communications Workers` Union represents 2,600 technical workers. [12] [13] [14] The last agreement between the Canada Post Corporation and the Canadian Postal Workers Union, Urban Postal Operations, expired on January 31, 2018. A collective agreement is a written legal contract that includes workers grouped into a single bargaining unit. The contract will be concluded through collective bargaining between the union and the employer. The CUPW currently has approximately 54,000 members[4] and has a long living history that began in 1965, when the union was formed from the Canadian Postal Employees Association (CPEA). [5] The CPEA itself was born in 1928 from the merger of the Dominion Postal Clerks Association, the Dominion Railway Mail Clerks` Federation and the Mail Porters Association. [6] [7] Canadian Union of Shiftworkers (CUPW); Union of Postal Workers) is a public sector union that represents postal workers such as letter workers, rural and suburban postal workers,[1] Postal workers, postal workers and distributors, technicians, mechanics and electricians employed by Canada Post, as well as private sector employees outside of Canada Post. .

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