Canada Post workers in Lethbridge are on strike. Sept. 26, 2025. (Photo: Lethbridge News Now)

By David Opinko

Canada Post workers in Lethbridge on strike

Sep 26, 2025 | 11:29 AM

More than 55,000 postal workers across the country are hitting the picket lines, including those in Lethbridge.

Dozens of Canada Post employees, represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) Local 770, rallied outside the downtown Lethbridge post office.

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Troy Tailfeathers, President of CUPW Local 770, says negotiations had been ongoing for several months.

He claims that the corporation has taken a “take it or leave it” approach to labour negotiations and has never been interested in finding common ground or compromise.

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After Canada Post’s employees stopped delivering flyers last week, federal Procurement Minister Joel Lightbound announced sweeping changes to the national postal service on Thursday, including the elimination of door-to-door mail delivery, the closures of some Canada Post offices, and that mail would take longer to reach residents.

Tailfeathers says these cutbacks would be devastating to communities across the country, particularly those like Lethbridge that have higher populations of seniors, who often rely on physical mail.

He explains that it would also completely cut off all mail service to most rural communities.

“If you live outside of one of the five major cities in Alberta – Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Red Deer, Edmonton and Calgary – Canada Post delivers all of the mail outside of those,” says Tailfeathers. If you want to order something from Amazon and they’re not delivering outside of those areas, if you live in a little town like Magrath or Raymond, you’re not going to get parcels. You’re not going to get delivery anymore.”

Tailfeathers also took issue with Lightbound’s assertion that Canada Post is losing $10 million every day, and that repeated bailouts are not the solution.

“We’re not supposed to make money because we are a Crown Corporation. We don’t take any taxpayer dollars, we pay our own employees, it’s all for us. We’re a Crown Corporation and we’re for the people. By putting those numbers out there, they’re just trying to make us look bad,” Tailfeathers adds.

According to Tailfeathers, CUPW is not making any contract demands; rather, they want to continue to provide this public service to Canadians without the threat of cutbacks.

CUPW Local 770 has around 100 members in Lethbridge, as well as another 50 in surrounding communities spanning Blairmore to Taber to Cardston.

While workers in Lethbridge have already hit the picket lines, the rural staff will begin their rallies on Monday, Sept. 29, if a deal has not been reached by then.

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