Canada Post and the union remain stuck in neutral as negotiations came to a crashing halt over the weekend.
The postal company offered a four-year time-limited offer that expired on Saturday and was rejected by the union.
According to Local CUPW President, Clark Rasmussen a counterproposal was then made but came with little fanfare from Canada Post.
“The offer itself was a good offer and is something along the basis that could be a negotiated contract, we didn’t hear anything back and then early this morning the company said they wanted a cooling off period for the next two months and then try to negotiate something, which is totally unacceptable to us.”
Canada Post requested a two-month cooling off period, a move that isn’t sitting well with the union.
“There is no cooling off period, we have been negotiating for over a year at the table and the company right up until now has decided to not negotiate fairly and we have a lot of big-ticket items on the table and one of them is our health and safety and we`re not going to give into something that doesn`t address that.”
Rasmussen says if the postal corporation wants to the end the stalemate, there’s a pretty simple solution.
“It’s very simple, they need to come to the table, they know what they need to do and our counteroffer is a good offer it might be a good basis for an agreement and they just need to come to the table and get this done.”
With the holiday shopping season set to begin this week with Black Friday and Cyber Monday, many of those packages are not expecting to arrive in time for Christmas because of the Postal Strike.
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