December 17th, 2010 
davidguide 
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – The Supreme Court of Canada will tackle a pay equity dispute between Canada Post and the Public Service Alliance of Canada that has been ongoing for almost three decades.
The union filed a case in August 1983 with the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal against Canada Post charging that female workers were discriminated against because they were paid less than male employees doing similar tasks. The case involved 2,300 clerical workers belonging to PSAC whose wages were compared to 2,300 clerical employees from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. The CUPW had 14.000 female employees at that time.
Canada Post Vice President for Human Resources Lynn Palmer said in a 2005 statement, “That any wage gap that may have existed in the past was due to the collective bargaining power of two different unions operating in distinct work areas and that it had nothing to do with gender discrimination.”
In 2005, the tribunal ruled in favor of PSAC. However, in 2008 a Federal Court overruled the tribunal’s decision. The Federal Court of Appeal upheld in February the Federal Court’s decision, prompting the PSAC to elevate the matter to the Supreme Court.
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