December 4, 1997

WHO:
Dr. Carla Lipsig-Mumme, Director, Centre for Research on Work and Society (CRWS)
Dr. Jerry White, University of Western Ontario, Principal Investigator
Russell Janzen, PhD candidate, Centre for Research on Work and Society

WHAT:
York's Centre for Research on Work and Society to release report, "When Public Jobs Go Private: A Study of the Termination of Admail Workers by the Canada Post Corporation"

This report, funded by CRWS, York University, the Agnes Dark Fund for the Social Sciences of the University of Western Ontario, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, examines the positions, roles and proposals of the three main stakeholders in the debate over privatizing admail: the federal government, the Canada Post Corporation, and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.

The report relies on documents, interviews and testimony from the October 1996 Canada Post Mandate Review to analyse why Canada Post decided to stop delivering admail as of January 1997, resulting in 10,000 admail workers losing their jobs.

Researchers also conducted a telephone survey of admail workers six months after they lost their jobs to determine whether and when they found new employment, how job loss affected their families and family income, and whether there was inequality between men and women and different age and language groups in finding new jobs.

WHEN:
10:00 a.m., Monday, December 8, 1997

WHERE:
Queen's Park Media Studio, Room 149
Main Legislative Building, 1 Queen's Park Crescent

For more information, please contact:

Sine MacKinnon
Senior Advisor for Media Relations
(416) 736-2100, ext. 22087 email: sinem@yorku.ca

Alison Masemann
Media Relatons Officer
(416) 736-2100, ext. 22086
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