CUPW - Postal Workers Ratify Collective Agreements

And now the workers' perspective! ✊

Monday June 1 2026

OTTAWA– Members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) in both the Urban Postal Operations and Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMC) bargaining units have voted to ratify new collective agreements. Preliminary results indicate 89.0% of Urban members and 85.9% of RSMC members voted in favour. These agreements will remain in effect until January 31, 2029.

These results follow a gruelling bargaining process, which spanned over two years and included seven weeks of nationwide strikes and repeated government interference, including the use of section 107 to pause our legal strike and a forced vote on one of Canada Post’s offers in the summer of 2025.

“Despite these challenges, postal workers made some gains and stopped drastic rollbacks first proposed by Canada Post,” says Jan Simpson, CUPW National President. “These agreements protect key rights including job security and pensions, and secured good wage increases, improved benefits, and pay for all hours worked for RSMCs.”

This round of bargaining took place against the background of constant threats to the core public service mandate of Canada Post. In March 2026, those threats became reality when the Government announced that it was giving Canada Post the green light to make sweeping changes to the public postal service including ending door-to-door delivery for four million addresses and converting to community mailboxes, closing post offices, and reducing service standards without proper public consultation.

“The cuts announced by the Government and Canada Post – while we were still bargaining and before our collective agreements were ratified – will negatively impact communities across the country,” says Simpson. “We, the public, are the owners of Canada Post, and we have a right to shape its future. Canada Post must not be allowed to continue on its path of managed decline. Now that our collective agreements have been ratified, we will turn all our energy into helping communities protect, improve, and expand this vital public service that Canadians rely on every day, no matter where they live,” adds Simpson.