{"id":60482,"date":"2025-06-04T14:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/06\/04\/jobs-minister-presses-canada-post-workers-to-reach-a-deal\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:50:12","slug":"jobs-minister-presses-canada-post-workers-to-reach-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2025\/06\/04\/jobs-minister-presses-canada-post-workers-to-reach-a-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs minister presses Canada Post, workers to reach a deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><\/div><p> \n<br \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/videos\/j5ZptDrR.mp4\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu<\/p>\n<p>                 is calling on <\/p>\n<p>                Canada Post<\/p>\n<p>                 and its union to return to the bargaining table to hash out terms for binding arbitration. <\/p>\n<p> In a social media statemen<\/p>\n<p>                t Wednesday, the minister also asked the Crown corporation and the <\/p>\n<p>                Canadian Union of Postal Workers<\/p>\n<p>                 to continue to work toward a deal outside of that process. <\/p>\n<p> She says arbitration is not the preferred path, but suggested the stage would be set for an imposed settlement if the two sides could not find common ground themselves. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today I asked Canada Post and CUPW to return to the bargaining table with federal mediators to do two things: to seek to negotiate terms for an arbitration process to conclude this round of bargaining, and to have the union table its response to Canada Post\u2019s last global offers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patty Hajdu (@PattyHajdu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PattyHajdu\/status\/1930255790121636197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The minister says Canadians expect the parties to resolve the impasse and that federal mediators are standing by to help. <\/p>\n<p> On Friday, Canada Post asked Hajdu to force a union vote on <\/p>\n<p>                its \u201cfinal offers,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>                 while the union requested binding arbitration, which the employer rejected. <\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li>Canada Post puts forward &#8216;final offers&#8217; to union<\/li>\n<li>Canada Post needs &#8216;radical surgery&#8217; to survive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> After a month-long strike last fall, the union has again been in a legal strike position since May 23, but has instead opted to ban members from working overtime while negotiations continued. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>Jobs minister presses Canada Post, workers to reach a deal<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2025-06-04 14:50:12<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu is calling on Canada Post and its union to return to the bargaining table to hash out terms for binding arbitration. In a social media statemen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/financialpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0605-bc-hajdu.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/60483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}