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00:00Canada Post has put another offer to its striking workers.

00:04The corporation saying that it includes many things offered before, but some cash is now

00:09off the table.

00:10So talk more about this with us.

00:11We've got Dan Bird in the studio.

00:14Dan, first, what's in this latest offer?

00:17And I think importantly, what's out?

00:18Let's talk about what's out first.

00:20Signing bonuses.

00:21These are usually given when unionized employees ratify a new deal.

00:26In May, Canada Post said this would range from $500 up to $1,000, but now it says it

00:31can't afford them, so they're out.

00:33What is still included, according to the corporation, a 13.59% wage hike over four years, health and

00:39retirement benefits, and up to seven weeks vacation.

00:43Both sides have been in talks, Sarah, for more than a year now.

00:46We know unionized workers, 55,000 of them, returned to strike last week after Otto announced

00:52the sweeping changes it wants to make.

00:55That includes the end of home delivery for four million Canadians who still receive it,

00:58and the move to close rural post offices.

01:01The corporation and Ottawa have said they haven't turned a profit since 2017, losing almost $850

01:06million last year.

01:08Last week, the government says it costs about $10 million a day to keep Canada Post running.

01:13It's losing that, I should say.

01:15It's effectively insolvent and can't keep getting bailed out by Ottawa.

01:19Today, Canada Post says both sides have to agree that they're essentially in an existential

01:24crisis.

01:25Have a listen.

01:26We are built for the days of five and a half billion letters, and we deliver less than

01:33half of that.

01:33So, we need to change, and we want to minimize that, the impact on our employees, but at the

01:39same time, maintaining things like job security for life, where you're paid even if we have

01:44no work for you until you decide to leave or retire, just isn't feasible while we're going

01:50through this transformation.

01:51Canada Post has said it plans to keep rural, remote, and indigenous post offices open where

01:58they are needed.

01:59Sarah.

02:00And so, Dan, I mean, the union has this now before then.

02:02What have we heard from the union?

02:03A blistering response.

02:05Canadian Union of Postal Workers is none too pleased.

02:07In a statement, it said, we waited 45 days for offers that are now worse than what we rejected

02:12in August.

02:13Canada Post must have known that.

02:15There is no way we can accept these and is clearly wasting even more time.

02:19So why did they bother?

02:21One of their negotiators we spoke with argues this is punishment.

02:26This is union-busting 101.

02:28They're trying to scare workers.

02:30I don't know if they're trying to get set up for some government intervention.

02:34You know, the minister could always order us back to work or something like that, because

02:38that's the way things are going.

02:40They're threatening us with thousands of job losses when they said we had jobs for life.

02:47Galant also disputes the claim from Canada Post that it's losing $10 million a day.

02:52He argues since they're not paying the workers, they're in fact not losing that much money.

02:56CupW sent Canada Post an offer in August, Sarah, with a 19% raise over four years, a proposed

03:02raise.

03:03Amid all of this, and between both sides, Canadians still not getting their mail.

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