Jay Aspin speaks to the public during a Space Week press conference Friday. PHOTO BY CHRIS DAWSON.
Local postal workers are trying to get some support from their local MP.
Local 576 of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has sent out flyers in the North Bay area asking the public to press MP Jay Aspin to help in trying to stop the Harper Government’s initiative which would see door-to-door delivery phased out as part of a five-year business plan.
At the Space Week news conference at the Canadore Aviation Campus, Jay Aspin responded to the flyers.
“Well as you know, Canada Post is a stand alone corporation, the problem occurred with a huge drop off of delivery of mail,” said Aspin.
“A little over a year ago they put their senior executive together and they developed a five-point plan to get back in the black and they are back in the black. They have got a successful plan and most people seem to support it.”
Local 576 President Keith Bradford wasn’t impressed with Aspin’s response.
“It’s another local federal politician not listening to his constituents and voting the way his party leader is telling him to vote without thinking about his constituents and how this is going to affect their lives,” Bradford told BayToday.ca Friday afternoon.
Bradford has spoken to both the NDP and Liberals who have supported him, stating their respective parties would put a stop to the cuts.
He says his members will make this an election issue.
“I am going to work my very hardest to make sure that it is an issue. If he wants to talk to me, he has my number. I’ve talked to him before on occasion,” he said.
“I’d be more than happy to discuss this in an open forum with other media, all the candidates, anytime and anywhere.”
The local office has 113 members that service Powassan in the south to Englehart in the North and west to east from Sturgeon Falls to Mattawa.
