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CUPW: A cautionary tale of union-busting, with a little help from the media

With 16 straight years of profitability, including record profits in 2009 and postage rates lower than almost all other industrialized countries, the Canada Post negotiations should have been relatively easy. But it's Tory times in Canada and what better way is there for a right-wing government to attack the labour movement than by going after the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, a national and historically militant union?

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Live now and possibly all weekend: NDP filibuster to stall back-to-work legislation against postal workers

By rabble staff
| June 23, 2011

The NDP is currently filibustering the back-to-work legislation tabled by the Harper government as Bill C-6, An Act to Provide for the Resumption and Continuation of Postal Services.

NDP MPs are speaking for allotted periods against the legislation as part of its effort to use "all parliamentary procedures" to block back-to-work legislation aimed at Canada Post. This strategy could take the entire weekend to play out.

The debate can be watched live here.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers' 48,000 members launched rotating 24-hour strikes on June 3. After 12 days, Canada Post said it had lost about $100 million, and locked workers out.

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CUPW keeps its options open in strike negotiations

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Postal workers in strike position next week over two-tier system for Canada Post employees.

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CUPW keeps its options open in strike negotiations

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CUPW postal workers and supporters take action at Canada Post head office

On Thursday, June 16, postal workers took action in Ottawa at the Canada Post headquarters in response to a lockout by the company coupled with demands for concessions, and back-to-work legislation.

Video by Greg Macdougall with additional footage from Allan Dykstra and John Hollingsworth.

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Unions rally to support postal workers, as back-to-work law nears

CUPW members in Vancouver. Photo: David P. Ball

Thousands of unionists rallied outside Canada Post's offices in Winnipeg and Ottawa on Thursday in support of locked-out postal workers, while a solidarity rally is being planned today in Vancouver.

Chanting "Negotiate, don't legislate," members from dozens of unions protested outside Canada Post's Ottawa headquarters and Winnipeg offices, criticizing the federal government's tabling of back-to-work legislation next Monday.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) criticized the impending legislation as suppressing workers' rights.

"It's outrageous," said CUPW Vancouver president Robert Mulvin. "Not only locking us out, but then forcing us back. We were hoping the labour minister would ask us to work at [negotiations] a little more."

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Students support the postal workers' strike

By Students for posties
| June 15, 2011

We, the undersigned student groups, stand in solidarity with the Canadian
Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), whose members have been on strike since
Friday, June 2. We join our voices to CUPW in demanding a fair wage, safe
working conditions, stable employment and decent benefits for all Canadian
postal workers.

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