Postal workers provide a service that is fundamental to the functioning of our country at every level and in every place. I felt it necessary to communicate this to the Legislature who, while not directly responsible for attempts to dismantle our postal service and undermine their union, have every responsibility to speak up in defense of 60,000 Canadian workers.
You can watch the recorded Member Statement below:
PAUL WOZNEY « » : I rise today in solidarity with the members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers – devalued by both Canada Post and the Federal Government.
It is troubling for all Canadians that Prime Minister Carney has proposed the termination of home mail delivery and the closure of rural post offices in order to pressure a union actively engaged in free and fair collective bargaining. It is shocking to me that a government that ran on an “Elbows Up” campaign and a promise to look out for all Canadians would so plainly interfere with negotiations impacting almost 60,000 workers across the country.
Banking, social assistance programs, government offices, and other essentials of Canadian life are linked inextricably with the postal service, and it is unthinkable that the federal government would threaten these invaluable workers on behalf of the employer.
Speaker, I request that all present join me in celebrating our unionized mail carriers who are standing up not only to an intractable employer but a Federal Government that continues to show contempt for the charter of rights of working people from coast to coast to coast.
