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Richard Des Lauriers, National President of the Union of Postal Communications Employees, one of UNI Post & Logistics affiliates in Canada, sends a message of thanks for the support from UNI and affiliates during their recent tough strike action with Canada Post.



The union reports that after 6 weeks of being on strike, the membership rejected the final offer of Canada Post before the union made some changes and the employer used bullying tactics and threatened employees with losing their jobs, annual bonus and that if the union didn't settle before December 24, 2008 they would keep them on strike indefinitely.



UPCE says that they are very proud of the members they stood up to this nasty employer and pushed them to the wall. So that in the end even though they had to make changes to the way sick leave is calculated and paid, they managed to get full job security for all members, shift premiums were increased, they gained call centre prep time for the agents and wage increases of 2.5 for the first two years and 2.75 for the following two years.



In his message to UNI, Richard Des Lauriers has said; "UNI Post & Logistics and UNI affiliates support was greatly appreciated and I want to thank you all personally for what you did, it made all the difference."