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Canada Post workers to vote on new offer
By Bradley BouzaneDecember 21, 2008
OTTAWA -- More than 2,100 Canada Post inside workers are in the process of voting on a new contract offer to possibly end a strike than began more than a month ago.
The national president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada said members were expecting to meet through Sunday and Monday for a national vote, with a target of having results tallied by late Monday.
John Gordon believes the new offer is an improvement over an offer tabled by Canada Post last weekend, which was shot down by more than two thirds of the PSAC membership.
"We did get some improvements to the offer that was on the table last week and we think the members should see what we have," Gordon said in an interview Sunday with Canwest News Service. "We're not making a recommendation one way or the other. We're going to tell the members that we went to the wall, as far as we could go, and that this is the best we believe that we can get as a negotiating team. It's up to them to make the decision."
Gordon said there were changes to the issue of personal-leave days, which last week were "rigid" and had little movement options. The new offer, however, would allow workers to carry over up to five unused days per year.
The latest proposal also includes additional family-care days that would not take away from employees' personal days.
"The flexibility that's put into the personal-leave package is a huge piece that we couldn't achieve last week that we did this week," Gordon said. "I think that's a significant thing that members should look at."
Canada Post, in a statement on its website, said Sunday that the two sides had negotiated over the last two days and have signed a memorandum of settlement.
The offer will give employees a total of 12 personal leave days annually, with the option receive a payout should workers choose not to carry over their allotted amount.
The 2,140 inside postal workers began their strike Nov. 17 to protest proposals by Canada Post to restrict workers' contractual rights to claim and bank sick leave.
The previous program allowed for 15 days of paid sick leave and five days of family-related leave for each year an employee worked at the company.
The days could accumulate year after year.
© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service
By Bradley BouzaneDecember 21, 2008
OTTAWA -- More than 2,100 Canada Post inside workers are in the process of voting on a new contract offer to possibly end a strike than began more than a month ago.
The national president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada said members were expecting to meet through Sunday and Monday for a national vote, with a target of having results tallied by late Monday.
John Gordon believes the new offer is an improvement over an offer tabled by Canada Post last weekend, which was shot down by more than two thirds of the PSAC membership.
"We did get some improvements to the offer that was on the table last week and we think the members should see what we have," Gordon said in an interview Sunday with Canwest News Service. "We're not making a recommendation one way or the other. We're going to tell the members that we went to the wall, as far as we could go, and that this is the best we believe that we can get as a negotiating team. It's up to them to make the decision."
Gordon said there were changes to the issue of personal-leave days, which last week were "rigid" and had little movement options. The new offer, however, would allow workers to carry over up to five unused days per year.
The latest proposal also includes additional family-care days that would not take away from employees' personal days.
"The flexibility that's put into the personal-leave package is a huge piece that we couldn't achieve last week that we did this week," Gordon said. "I think that's a significant thing that members should look at."
Canada Post, in a statement on its website, said Sunday that the two sides had negotiated over the last two days and have signed a memorandum of settlement.
The offer will give employees a total of 12 personal leave days annually, with the option receive a payout should workers choose not to carry over their allotted amount.
The 2,140 inside postal workers began their strike Nov. 17 to protest proposals by Canada Post to restrict workers' contractual rights to claim and bank sick leave.
The previous program allowed for 15 days of paid sick leave and five days of family-related leave for each year an employee worked at the company.
The days could accumulate year after year.
© Copyright (c) Canwest News Service
