Postal workers are fighting for good jobs in our communities and strong public services. But instead of bargaining fairly, Canada Post Corporation forced postal workers off the job and into a strike. 

Tell Canada Post Corporation you support postal workers!

Canada Post Corporation announced that as of 8:00 am on Friday, November 15, Canada Post will not be following the existing collective agreement that protects postal workers’ wages and working conditions, regardless of whether or not workers took job action. In other words, CUPW members would have been expected to keep working with far fewer protections than those agreed in the previous contract. 

This announcement is not surprising. The Federal government has time and time again sided with employers. They recently forced British Columbia port workers into binding arbitration and they ended job action by railway workers in August. And let’s not forget, the last time Canada Post workers were in collective bargaining in 2018, the Federal government legislated striking postal workers back to work as well.

As Toronto and York Region Labour Council President Andria Babbington explains:

“As long as employers know the government will step in on their behalf, workers will never have a fair negotiation process.”

We cannot rely on politicians to protect jobs, wages and working conditions. But we can protect each other. Here are 3 easy actions you can take to support postal workers’ fight for decent work and public services:

1. Send a message to Canada Post 

Let Canada Post know their workers deserve decent pay, paid sick leave, and safe working conditions.

2. Show your support!

Visit a picket line! You can use this handy picket line finder (just type in your postal code). Download this placard that says: "HONK to support postal workers!" 

Download a sign, snap a solidarity selfie.

If you tag us @fairwagesnow or use #Justice4Workers #SupportPostalWorkers it will be easy for others to find and amplify your post!

You can also share this message on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

3. Put up a poster in your neighborhood

Print signs and post them near your local post office or anywhere in your neighbourhood.

Choose from letter-size posters or tabloid-size posters.

Print a sign for your own mailbox, door, or window. 

If you live in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), you can pick up posters outside Suite 223 at 720 Spadina Avenue. The building is open 7 days a week between 8:00 am and 8:00 pm.  

Delivery work should be decent work. This means liveable wages, safe working conditions, paid sick days, decent health benefits, and the ability to retire with dignity. What we want for postal workers we want for everyone. 

Join us at the next provincial organizing meeting (taking place on Zoom, Tuesday, December 10). You can RSVP to our Justice for Workers online meeting here. 

💸 Stop Wage Theft

Workers at Sunrise Caribbean restaurant are fighting to reclaim unpaid wages. These workers are exposing the failure of Premier Doug Ford and Labour Minister David Piccini to protect workers on the job.

But rather than Premier Ford’s lip service about “working for workers,” Ontario workers need much stronger laws, pro-active inspections, and meaningful fines to ensure employers cannot continue to profit from withholding wages.

Since 2018 when Premier Ford was first elected, proactive inspections by the Ministry of Labour have fallen by a staggering 90%. 

Support these workers—and others experiencing wage theft—by sending an email to Premier Ford, Labour Minister Piccini, and your local Member of Provincial Parliament to STOP wage theft now!

✊🏿 Migrant workers need solidarity, not more scapegoating

Migrant workers need rights, not cuts. While politicians cut funding for health care, public housing, and education, all of us are having a harder time paying the bills, finding affordable housing, and caring for loved ones. But rather than take responsibility for their own policy failures, politicians are deliberately deflecting by blaming immigrants, international students, public sector workers, cyclists, and people in the 2SLGBTQIA + community. 

We are not facing a scarcity of resources. We are facing a problem of greed. Billionaires and corporations lower our wages while making massive profits off our labour and off our basic needs like housing. The 1% don’t want the government providing public, not-for-profit services because they want to keep making profits for themselves.

Cutting immigration is a case in point. As noted by the Migrant Rights Network, none of the recently announced policy measures by the federal government address the root causes of our cost-of-living crisis. But if we fall for their divide-and-rule tactics, our movements become weaker. Instead, folks like you and me and the rest of the 99% must unite to put the 1% out of business. 

Send an email to Prime Minister Trudeau and tell him that we all need equal rights, not cuts!

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Keep organizing! 

The 1% fear our unity and our power, especially in the workplace. That's why they work so hard to pit us against each other and why we have to challenge the politicians and the corporations that try to divide us.

Check out our upcoming local events and be sure to attend the next province-wide organizing on Tuesday, December 10 at 7:00 pm.