Financial Post- Canada Post temporarily laying off striking workers
She said the organization has informed employees that the collective agreements are no longer in effect and their conditions of employment have now changed, as per the Canada Labour Code — referring to the section of the code that covers lockout notices.
Privatize the mail.
Canada Post
Bleeding Canadians for decades
Their wages are commensurate with their job descriptions.
$ 27.50-$34.00/ Hour. PLUS & its a BIG PLUS – Every benefit known to MAN.
May said Bloated corporation self destruct.
Losing Millions per yr is not what I would call a good governance.
Good….it’s time to kick the ass of virtually ALL public sector unions. They are ALL parasites. All of them.
We need a right-to-work law in Canada, making membership in unions optional. Half the states in the US have right-to-work. You know, the ones where all the jobs are.
Well they intended to hold everyone elses Christmas to ransom and now the worm has turned and bit them on the ar*e. So we won’t get Grannies fruit cake in time for Christmas dinner but we will get to enjoy the Schadenfruede of the Posties realizing that they are replaceable. I think we do need a postal service but maybe not this one.
I’m looking for a job – Matt McGinn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgJDlnA2zuY
Canada Post has become a problem for to solve.
Utility companies are mopping up the last few people that still get their bills through the mail.
Are we really going to miss the fliers that come daily?
Many private firms seem to have parcel delivery in hand.
It may be easier to find a new method for the few items that do depend on Canada Post than to continue as we are. What will be missing is a legally protected method for communication. It is time to provide legal protection for one or more electronic communication methods.
I’m old enough to remember Canada Post putting on their strikes just before Christmas (this was back in the 70s). Nothing has changed. While I can sympathize with losing one’s job before Christmas…the question I have to ask is were the working conditions really bad? Was the pay too low for the job they did? If the answer to any of these questions is “no”–then fµck you. ANY able-bodied person can sort mail and carry a bag full of letters going house to house. Replace them.
House to house? Do they still do that? Because here it’s all supermailboxes.
Only a third of addresses still have individual delivered addresses, the remaining 2 thirds have locations where the mail delivery person pulls up in their truck, and shoves the letters into a community mail box, which seems to be too difficult for them.
They do seem to have no problem walking back and forth on the picket line for hours at a time.
Does that mean they can now collect EI, at the working taxpayers expense?
It never used to be that way the fact of a strike negated that. However with the current crop of idiots in government who knows what sort of insanity will ensue.
Oh, probably, under Castreau’s rule. But it’s still cheaper to fund the parasites under EI than pay them their wages plus the outrageous 25% they were demanding.
Postal service is dying, and good riddance. It’d be like crown corporation buggy whip makers going on strike for huge raises 125 years ago.
Privatize and give courier companies legal permission to deliver mail so strikes don’t hold the country to ransom by a bunch of dinosaurs looking for a tar pit.
mhb23re
Postal strike?? I haven’t used them in years and literally get no mail as everything I need is electronic.
Please die postal weenies….slow or fast makes no difference to me.
CUPW is a communist Union and always has been. They have sponsored schools in Cuba for decades.
The Union leaders are probably outright Marxists, with the goal of bleeding our taxpayers for as much as they can get.
I get two pieces of mail per month, both Bills, and a bunch of flyers. Most people I know say the same.
Canada Post, you are about as relevant as telephone company operators.
The majority of my mail are letters from charitable organizations asking for money. Plus once a year, I get about maybe a half dozen Christmas cards.
I’m hearing that the Liberals are watching their polling numbers over this and that if this starts to drop their already low numbers further in any major way in the next two weeks, Trudeau has the names of almost 50,000 Nigerian princes who have emailed him over the years and he is going to offer to fly them all in and give them instant citizenship in return for replacing the existing posties. [ha, ha, ha]