Mood:  rushed

CUPW recently released a bulletin attacking Canada Post's "Corporate Team Incentive". I sent a letter back the negotiating committee expressing my views on their bulletin:

"In your recent bulletin on CTI Bonus system versus a wage increase, your estimate of a 2.5% increase plus the CTI bonus would beat your wage increase of 3% by $518.07 over a four year contract period to 2010(51,656.31 with CTI and 51,137.34 without CTI). More than 30% of the membership should be retiring during that time. The ones that have supported CUPW through many strikes.

I don't understand the estimate to 2027. Unions deal with contract periods not decades' possibilities.

You also state that "CTI targets are established by the employer who can change those targets from year to year during the life of the collective agreement. And the union has no right to grieve terms or conditions that are determined by management".

Why are you agreeing with managment that the above isn't negotiable? Didn't we become a Crown Corporation so issues like the above can be negotiable.

Corporate Postal Management isn't the Treasury Board. The CTI Program is on the table and all or part of it is negotiable?

Ask former CUPW President, Jean-Clause Parrot what he thinks?"

http://www.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/8840/la_id/1.htm (CUPW On The CTI Program)