Canada Post union tables new offers seeking higher wages

[SouthBayDem]

Source: CBC

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers presented new offers to Canada Post on Wednesday seeking higher wages while allowing for the addition of weekend delivery and part-time workers to the postal service.

The new proposals include annual wage increases of nine per cent in the first year of the agreement, and four per cent in the second year, followed by hikes of three per cent in years three and four.

That's up from the roughly 13 per cent over four years included in Canada Post's most recent offers from late May.

Unionized workers rejected those offers in a direct vote earlier this month.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-post-union-offer-1.7613838

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Side note: I didn't know Canadian English spelled it "unionized" despite sharing British English "-ised" spellings for many words.

[Under The Radar]

1. Canada continues to lead the way.

At one time, I lived in a country that made the working middle class a priority in our country’s economy.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Canada tends more toward US spelling than UK, especially for vehicles.

So truck instead of lorry, car hood instead of bonnet, trunk instead of boot, tire instead of tyre.

We go with British (from French) colour instead of color, favour instead of favor, etc. Fibre, centre instead of fiber, center.

But we tend to go with -ize rather than -ise. It varies. But even the British have Oxford spelling as a variant with -ize: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English#Spelling