CUPW launches national 'Stop Harper' caravan tour today

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CUPW launches national 'Stop Harper' caravan tour today

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By Megan Devlin | July 15, 2015

Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is hitting the road to tell Canadians they should tell Harper to hit the road in the next election.

CUPW is kicking off their national Save Canada Post caravan tour in St. John's, Newfoundland today. [ http://www.savecanadapost.ca/en/campaig ... ravan-tour ]

Mike Palecek, CUPW national president, will be travelling across Canada in a 32-foot RV emblazoned with "Save Canada Post, stop the cuts, stop Harper."

"It's part of our campaign to stop the Conservative cuts to the post office," said Palecek. "We're organizing this tour leading up to October 19, to election day, to make sure that people across this country know exactly where the blame lies for these cuts."

The caravan will start with a press conference at Cape Spear, the easternmost point in North America, and a town hall at the post office before setting out across the Maritimes and eventually ending in Victoria.

"We're going to drive this RV into every Tory swing seat in this country and we're going to bring these people down one by one," Palecek said.

The caravan will be on the road for the next 96 days leading up to the federal election.

The tour is protesting cuts to Canada Post announced by the Conservative government in December 2013. [ http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/behind- ... government ] The cuts included a stop to home mail delivery, an increase in the price of stamps and shutting down or reducing the size of post offices across the country.

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