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By Dylana Kneeshaw

CUPW LOCAL 758

Kamloops-area postal workers among striking Canada Post employees

Sep 26, 2025 | 4:27 PM

KAMLOOPS — Postal workers in Kamloops are among the thousands of Canada Post employees who walked off the job Thursday (Sept. 25). The 55,000 workers went back on picket lines after the federal government announced changes in response to the struggling financial position Canada Post is in.

CUPW Local 758 first vice-president Aaron Arseneau says members disagree with the plan to terminate door-to-door mail delivery, and they’re also taking issue with the plan to remove many rural post offices.

“There’s so many in our local alone. We have six or seven small rural post offices that are in danger of being closed,” Arseneau told CFJC Today.

Legally, CUPW has been in a strike position since May of this year. But the union had banned overtime and stopped delivering business flyers to limit service disruptions. The response abruptly changed after the federal government’s latest shift.

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“The ideal scenario is the same as day one — it’s a negotiated collective agreement and that’s something we still hope we can get. But unless Canada Post decides to bargain in good faith, which they haven’t from day one, I don’t see how we’re going to get that,” said Arseneau.

The flow of mail across the country will be impacted with this latest strike. Canada Post says mail and parcels will not be processed or delivered during the strike and some post offices will be closed. There’s been no official word yet on when the two sides may return to the bargaining table.