Canada Post contract talks to resume

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Contract talks are scheduled to resume Tuesday between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW).

Union members recently voted 94.5% in in favour of giving their negotiators a strike mandate. CUPW will be in a position to strike midnight May 24 if an agreement is not reached.

"We would expect this week to see, hopefully, more movement," said Gerry Deveau, the union's national director for the Ontario Region.

There are about 110 CUPW members in Sarnia, he said.

"The employer is proposing major rollbacks."

The union has said Canada Post wants to pay new employees 30% less, reduce benefits, weaken job security and provide "an inferior pension."

Deveau said the turnout at the recent strike vote was the highest in the union's history.

"A 94.5% strike vote sends a clear message to Canada Post,' CUPW national president Denis Lemelin said in a press release.

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