This year, Canada Post marks 30 years as a Crown Corporation.
It’s a great success story­—one that CUPW helped create. Postal
workers lobbied the government for many years to make the post
office a Crown corporation. In 1981 the Canada Post Corporation
got a clear mandate, including:
• improved and expanded services
• improved labour relations
• financial self-sufficiency
How much of your tax money
goes to pay postal workers?
So how is it doing so far?
Financial Self-sufficiency: ACHIEVED
In a majority of years, CPC has brought in a surplus. Even more, it
has also paid over a billion dollars in dividends and income tax to
the public purse. In 2010, CPC made its highest surplus ever, after
fifteen years of profits.
Improved Labour Relations: NEEDS WORK
Before 1981, the Federal government was the direct employer of
Postal Workers. Postal workers had to fight hard for better working
conditions, and stil do. If Canada Post can afford to pay its
executives huge salaries and bonuses, then we think it could also
afford to meet its workers’ needs for improved working conditions
and benefits.
Improved and Expanded Services: NEEDS WORK
Zero. Not a dollar. Not a cent.
And Canada Post has one of the
lowest standard postage rates in
the industrialized world.
Canada Post is in the middle of modernization plans that will cut
millions in costs and affect the service you get.
Sound good?
Canada Post should reinvest part of those savings into
improving services – like more door-to-door delivery and greater
convenience in parcel delivery – or expanding into new services.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is celebrating the
30th anniversary of Canada Post by looking at how we can
make our post office even better.
WE ARE THE CANADIAN UNION OF POSTAL WORKERS
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This year, Canada Post marks 30 years as a Crown Corporation.
It’s a great success story­—one that CUPW helped create. Postal
workers lobbied the government for many years to make the post
office a Crown corporation. In 1981 the Canada Post Corporation
got a clear mandate, including:
• improved and expanded services
• improved labour relations
• financial self-sufficiency
How much of your tax money
goes to pay postal workers?
So how is it doing so far?
Financial Self-sufficiency: ACHIEVED
In a majority of years, CPC has brought in a surplus. Even more, it
has also paid over a billion dollars in dividends and income tax to
the public purse. In 2010, CPC made its highest surplus ever, after
fifteen years of profits.
Improved Labour Relations: NEEDS WORK
Before 1981, the Federal government was the direct employer of
Postal Workers. Postal workers had to fight hard for better working
conditions, and still do. If Canada Post can afford to pay its
executives huge salaries and bonuses, then we think it could also
afford to meet its workers’ needs for improved working conditions
and benefits.
Improved and Expanded Services: NEEDS WORK
Zero. Not a dollar. Not a cent.
And Canada Post has one of the
lowest standard postage rates in
the industrialized world.
Canada Post is in the middle of modernization plans that will cut
millions in costs and affect the service you get.
Sound good?
Canada Post should reinvest part of those savings into
improving services – like more door-to-door delivery and greater
convenience in parcel delivery – or expanding into new services.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is celebrating the
30th anniversary of Canada Post by looking at how we can
make our post office even better.
WE ARE THE CANADIAN UNION OF POSTAL WORKERS
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