The World Federation of Trade Unions, representing 92 million workers in 126 countries, declares its firm solidarity with Canadian working class and Canada Post Workers who are currently facing an anti-labour attack. As in Europe, also in Canada, governments and multi-nationals companies are licking their lips at the prospects of large scale privatizations. Canada Post is a similar case.
Canada Post’s demands for massive concessions on pension plans, rollbacks on wages and working conditions is combined with their attempt to smash the unions, slash services and entirely break up the public post office. We also rise against the massive disinformation campaign led by Canada Post leadership, aimed at turning the public against the fair demands of postal workers. The employers are also using deliberate lies to convince the public that Canada Post is a non-profitable company and that constantly loses money. The world workers are expierenced with this kind of lies deployed by every government who wants to privatize any social service.
We, as WFTU, will stand by the Canada Post workers if they are forced out on strike, until the satisfaction of the contemporary workers’ needs.
The WFTU Secretariat
