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After giving us barely 24 hours' notice, your Association got a hand-delivered document today from CUPW. That union will ask the Canada Industrial Relations Board to say that you, the members of CPAA, should lose your right to belong to the Association.
Rest assured, we will fight CUPW's blatant attempt to beef up its sagging membership by raiding another union.
In 2005, only 5 years ago, CUPW recognized, in writing, that CPAA had a right to exist, guaranteeing that its members could vote to stay in a separate, independent union, dedicated to the working lives and interests of workers in rural Canada. Since the introduction of the Modern Post, they are losing members and dues. Now, they want to fold the CPAA bargaining unit and all of the Association's members into the CUPW bargaining unit.
CPAA have had the privilege of serving you for over a century. Your Association has worked on your behalf and, in return, you have consistently spoken about the quality of the service you have received. More importantly, you have spoken about the pride that you have in your Association.
CUPW has done this while we are in the middle of a critical stage in bargaining, thinking it would take advantage of the Association and its members while our attention was elsewhere. They have underestimated you and they have underestimated the Association.
We will all have to work to make sure this "hostile takeover" is stopped. Over the coming weeks and months, we will keep you posted as this unfolds.
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