Back To Work

23 Replies to “Back To Work”

1. If PP had just one testicle, he’d use an OIC to impose Right to Work laws.
   That would end all this nonsense in a jiffy.
   …and another OIC to allow permit-less carry, like around 25 states have.

2. Leave them out, nothing is going to get moving until the new year anyway.

3. We’ll now wait until May 22 to see if there’s any mail for them to handle.

   The government is in a tough spot. Canada Post is losing a billion annually, although the cash shortfall is partially covered by asset sales.

   1. What are you talking about. Last year Canada Post had their best year every. They only lost 2 billion. I think they are in competition with CBC as Loozer

4. Did the postal union quietly ask the Liberals to force them back to work because they are getting smoked in the court of public opinion and nobody cares if they stay on strike forever?
   This way they get to collect their wages and an arbitrator will likely give them more than they could have gotten by staying out on strike for a year.

   1. Exactly. It’s a game of 3 card monte where the taxpayers are always the rube.

5. Keep the strike going to 2026. The damage is done.

   Let those that survive the jabs suffer.

6. It won’t matter. Dead service walking.
   Nobody trusts legacy government monopolies to deliver anything of value. Doesn’t matter what. Mail, policing, health, military, fisheries, forestry, parks, anything and everything the government runs is shit. And stupid Canadians keep voting for more government like it was was ever the answer.

7. They should stay on strike until the election so Poilevre can privatize Canada Post. It’s been done before; DHL is the German postal service. That way none of them will have a contract and they can a lose their jobs, allowing the new private company to make a profit.

   1. Yup; force Canada Post to compete on a level playing field. This monopoly isn’t serving anyone well.
      I don’t despise anyone just because they work for Canada Post, but I have nothing but contempt for their damn union. They deliberately staged this strike pre Christmas to do the most damage, ie cripple the economy.
      Mail delivery should be an essential service. Period. No wiggle room.

   2. My “brother from another mother” was discussing this in our phone call last weekend. He was watching a news program and the discussion was the privatization of both the German and the British mail systems. According to him, the postal carriers have to bid on their routes now and the lowest bid has the contract for the next period of time (I do not know if this is one or two years). There are NO benefits, no sick leave, no vacation time. It is a contract and the postal carriers are private individuals, not employees. I do not know if this also applies to the workers at the sorting stations (I would think not, because this is more of an employee situation). Nevertheless, if you are unhappy with the work conditions and the benefits, then you are free to quit and go look for work elsewhere. Both services now make a profit.

8. This will save them. I think they were losing ground as people recognized there is little need for their services.

9. Why did McKinnon wait another two weeks after the mediator said that the two sides were too far apart?
   He should have done then what he did now.
   By delaying the inevitable, hundreds of millions of dollars were lost to the economy. I wouldn’t be surprised if more than a few small businesses didn’t survive this insanity. I for one was deeply affected by this service shut down, as my suppliers must have felt the pinch too.
   Unfortunately for the unions, many have figured out how to survive without Canada Post, and likely will continue doing what they have been doing during the strike, meaning that the future of Canada Post is not very bright, and even gloomier for it’s employees, because what usually follows strikes of this nature are massive layoffs.

   1. UPDATE: What McKinnon is really doing is pass the buck to the CIRB, because to end the strike requires legislation, and the government is frozen right now thanks to the slush-fund scandal.
      So it’s very likely that if the CIRB says “get back to work,” the union could challenge that in court, and may actually win.
      In other words, the Posties may not be going back to work as quickly as anticipated.
      Thanks to the Northern Perspective VLOG for spelling things out.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sicCbde5XgA

10. I would like to thank the postal workers for my not being forced to scan my aunts 6pt. Comic sans 7 page letter about her cats, her podiatrists cats and her step daughters 7th journey through rehab, and her cats .

11. A real union would keep this strike going. You gonna let the feds push you back to work? Increase your demands and stay on strike until 2027 if necessary. Hang in there.

12. The postal workers were forced back to work, so is JagButt “the mighty NDP leader” going to be spouting his rhetoric lines again about TruDope again?.

13. For what (little) it’s worth, count me among the “Fire them all and contract the work out to private businesses” clique.

    1. AMEN!
       I’d go ever further and abolish ALL public sector unions.
       NO union should be taking money from taxpayers.

       1. Yep, exactly.

14. Of course they’re being ordered back. People on the reserves are complaining about lack of deliveries.

15. LindaL is right, back-to-work is a life saver for this fed agency on life support; there will be no layoffs, costs can now rise exponentially with service and moral continuing to deteriorate. Trudeau needs this artifact of 19th century technology to help continue his National Bankruptcy Plan.

16. This is kind of BS. Look, either you want labor “rights” or you don’t. I know those rights are total bunkum, but this is just having it both ways. ‘Unions totally have the backing of state until the state is inconvenienced and then the state slots them’. Deregulate, privatize, end pro-union laws.