According to Mike Duquette, Scarborough Local President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), the Scarborough, Ontario CUPW Local is currently on strike with the exception of Pickering, which was on strike last week. “Today (Sunday, November 4), we’re starting at the YDC (York Distribution Center) at 3 pm, and we’ll continue until we’re instructed by the National Union to return to work. By tomorrow morning, 1,800 members in 16 installations will be on strike. The Eastern one third of the GTA will have no mail. There will be no parcel delivery from downtown Toronto north to Newmarket and east to Port Hope, and everywhere in between.” While standing at the 1860 Midland Avenue location yesterday in Scarborough, Ontario, Duquette added: “This location, time and date were chosen to shine a light on the issues that impact postal workers. This is the Eastern GTA Parcel Hub. This is where Canada Post Corporation makes all its money. It’s time to use those profits to invest in the future and share with us. We are the ones who generate those profits with our labour. Normal operations should return shortly. Our dispute is not with the public – our dispute is with our employer.”
Ontario communities with no mail service currently include:
HALF OF DOWNTOWN TORONTO
AJAX
DON MILLS (& ADJACENT AREAS OF TORONTO)
MAPLE
MARKHAM
RICHMOND HILL
SCARBOROUGH
STOUFFVILLE
THORNHILL
UNIONVILLE
WHITBY
THREE-QUARTERS OF WILLOWDALE
Ontario communities with no parcel delivery currently include:
BOWMANVILLE
BRADFORD
HAMPTON
KESWICK
KING CITY
MILLBROOK
NEWMARKET
ORONO
OSHAWA
PONTYPOOL
PORT HOPE
PORT PERRY
UXBRIDGE
Locations currently on strike are listed below with a link to them on a Google Earth Map
- 14th AVE, UNIONVILLE
- 21 ARNOLD CRES, RICHMOND HILL
- 31 BRODIE AVE, UNIONVILLE
- 51B CALDARI ROAD, MAPLE
- 55 TEMPO AVE, WILLOWDALE
- 70 WYNFORD DRIVE, DON MILLS
- 135 WEST BEAVER CREEK DRIVE, THORNHILL
- 155 ASHTONBEE ROAD, SCARBOROUGH
- 265 HARWOOD AVE, AJAX
- 280 PROGRESS, SCARBOROUGH
- 669 SHEPPARD AVE E, WILLOWDALE
- 1740 KINGSTON ROAD, PICKERING
- 1860 MIDLAND, SCARBOROUGH
- 6035 BATHURST ST, WILLOWDALE
- 6379 MAIN STREET, STOUFFVILLE
- 8889 YONGE ST, RICHMOND HILL
