Canada Post Strike

[CLOUD 500]

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Canada Post will be going on strike again. They went on strike during the holiday season and it last about 32 days give or take a day or two and only because the government ordered them back to work. This is one of the reasons I hate unions, workers go on striker wanting to be payed more holding the public hostage. The union and crown corporation are on opposite sides I doubt they will come to an agreement. The workers demands are unreasonable. Canada Post is essentially bankrupt, they already got a big loan from the government. The crown corporation cannot pay these employees more along with ridiculous demands like wanting to be payed for gender affirming care. These workers will eventually loose their jobs because the Crown Corporation will have to adapt to the new realities of competition from other courier companies and that mail is used less since the internet. I see the government forcing them back to work.

 

[Enjoying life]

Canada Post strike explained: What you need to know about your mail | Globalnews.ca

As workers take to the picket lines, many Canadians may find themselves scrambling to handle holiday mail, online order returns and seeking alternative mail services.

globalnews.ca

Canada Post will be going on strike again. They went on strike during the holiday season and it last about 32 days give or take a day or two and only because the government ordered them back to work. This is one of the reasons I hate unions, workers go on striker wanting to be payed more holding the public hostage. The union and crown corporation are on opposite sides I doubt they will come to an agreement. The workers demands are unreasonable. Canada Post is essentially bankrupt, they already got a big loan from the government. The crown corporation cannot pay these employees more along with ridiculous demands like wanting to be payed for gender affirming care. These workers will eventually loose their jobs because the Crown Corporation will have to adapt to the new realities of competition from other courier companies and that mail is used less since the internet. I see the government forcing them back to work.

Great no mail again for months!

 

[urquell]

Canada Post strike explained: What you need to know about your mail | Globalnews.ca

As workers take to the picket lines, many Canadians may find themselves scrambling to handle holiday mail, online order returns and seeking alternative mail services.

globalnews.ca

Canada Post will be going on strike again. They went on strike during the holiday season and it last about 32 days give or take a day or two and only because the government ordered them back to work. This is one of the reasons I hate unions, workers go on striker wanting to be payed more holding the public hostage. The union and crown corporation are on opposite sides I doubt they will come to an agreement. The workers demands are unreasonable. Canada Post is essentially bankrupt, they already got a big loan from the government. The crown corporation cannot pay these employees more along with ridiculous demands like wanting to be payed for gender affirming care. These workers will eventually loose their jobs because the Crown Corporation will have to adapt to the new realities of competition from other courier companies and that mail is used less since the internet. I see the government forcing them back to work.

I agree, both about unions and about the state of the negotiations. This type of short sighted greed by the workers is the kind of thing that killed the Montreal Star and basically eliminated projectionists as a profession. I understand wanting to hang onto jobs, but the workforce needs to be streamlined or repurposed and Canada Post needs to be leaner and move into modern services in order to compete and to continue to exist. Unions also need to and want to display their muscle in order to validate their raison-d'être too, as the changing world is beginning to push back against them and to push them aside. Nobody wants to be relegated to the sidelines, but everyone needs to be able to take a clear look at the realities of the day and understand that things can't continue to work as they always have, because that simply doesn't work anymore.

 

[Mandouke]

I long ago had no use for Canada Post or their services.

Having said that, I ordered a consumer good from overseas a week and a half ago and much to my horror, when the good was shipped, I was informed that Canada Post is the last-mile provider.

It left me very upset, as I am now being held hostage for a purchase I was expecting a timely delivery on, and I have no idea when I will receive it.

 

[CLOUD 500]

I long ago had no use for Canada Post or their services.

Having said that, I ordered a consumer good from overseas a week and a half ago and much to my horror, when the good was shipped, I was informed that Canada Post is the last-mile provider.

It left me very upset, as I am now being held hostage for a purchase I was expecting a timely delivery on, and I have no idea when I will receive it.

A lot of the companies overseas use Canada Post as the last mile delivery because it is usually the cheapest option and they have the most coverage (Only Canada Post has access to rural communities where there is only a PO box). I order something off Ebay and looks like the last mile delivery will be with Canada Post. I signalled Ebay multiple times but there only response was there money back guarantee. I want the item, not my money back. Only a matter of one or two days extra and I would have got my order. Now who knows how long I have to wait and who knows if the parcel will get lost.

 

[CLOUD 500]

The main striking point is Canada Post wants to hire part-time workers for weekend delivery. There is a demand for this and the other courier companies deliver on weekends. Parcel deliveries is becoming more and more significant compared to mail delivery. That is one of the new realities and these workers are living in the past. The union said no to weekend work, they want only full-time workers to be used for that and if they work weekends they want them to be paid significantly more. See why I hate unions. These strikes got material cost. The lost strike cost the economy billions. The companies had to bare the brunt of the losses and unfortunately the costs got passed on to the customer. Some companies moved operations to the US from shipping to logistics to warehousing. The impact of the strikes were so drastic that some companies will not tolerate this again. The union is living in a dream world. Among some of the demands of the union, I am at a loss for words:

1. 19% wage increase over four years
2. 10 paid medical leave days on top of 7 personal paid days
3. Fertility treatment benefit
4. Gender affirming care benefit
5. Paid mails for shifts over 5 hours and more
6. Limit surveillance for productivity
7. 88% wages if injured at work
8. Vision care benefit
9. Increased health specialist benefit
10. Protection against technology
11. No contracting work out
12. Snow tires for rural mail carriers
13. 8 hour routes
14. Benefits for temporary employees
15. Eliminate separate sort from delivery

These demands are not all. The workers will drive Canada Post to the ground and the strike will cost the company millions. They will end up getting layed off.

 

[Mandouke]

A lot of the companies overseas use Canada Post as the last mile delivery because it is usually the cheapest option and they have the most coverage (Only Canada Post has access to rural communities where there is only a PO box).

Thanks for the response. I did order from overseas in the UK. It was a small music manufacturer that I have just begun dealing with who are noted for their exceptional products.

I will just wait it out and hope that it is not lost or damaged during the strike. Canada Post is a dinosaur.

I am old enough to remember many long-gone professions. There was the old milk delivery to the door, and I even remember the Humpty Dumpty Potato Chip delivery man and the round, circular boxes that the chips would come in. These professions are no more, and Canada Post should wake up and adapt if it wants to come out of this and have a model that works in the computer age.