CBC is reporting that "Canada Post has not agreed to delay a potential strike by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), effectively pushing the union to agree to its latest offer ahead of a planned labour action set to begin Friday. The union had proposed a two-week pause on the strike as it reviewed the latest offer from Canada Post, according to negotiator Jim Gallant."
"The postal service made a new offer to the union earlier today, just a few days ahead of what would be the second strike in six months.The offer comes after Canada Post paused negotiations for a new collective agreement last week."
I know a lot of people must be saying WTF as in they were just on strike - a long one. Evidently they were legislated back just for a time limit without binding arbitration and the time limit is up. That's a strange way to do it.
Canada Post's profitability has tanked and that is a serious concern. Where there are no profits, there is no job security. The problem is many administrators at Canada Post would rather run the company into the ground for ideological reasons which are petty. Canada Post used to make money and pay dividends to the government which increased tax revenue.
The private sector can't afford long strikes. The problem is admail. The private sector makes money. They make money from parcels and couriers. Admail isn't worth it. When you used to go to every house with mail, adamil made sense. Now it does not. Not everyone gets mail every day now. That's why you made the routes longer. Making letter carries carry a fist full of flyers to every house turns couriers into pack mules.
These public sector managers have been saying admail is where the money is for the last 20 years. Evidently not. If you got rid of admail you'd make more money. Part time positions on the weekends is fine but the elephant in the room is admail. Get rid of it and save the company from destruction.
Part time positions on the weekends is fine but the elephant in the room is admail. Do you not understand it's the postal workers who do not want wknd workers?. I am still getting delivered to the house. Had Harper got back in that would have been cancelled everywhere community boxes. It got started community boxes everywhere just did not reach me.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why there mandate is delivery daily i would wholeheartedly agree to bring mail to my house once or twice a week. Whats the problem? ... agree?
No it's the Union that doesn't want part timers on the weekend. If I was a full-timer with seniority, I wouldn't care if the Corporation wanted to hire some part timers to work on weekends. Changing delivery to once or twice a week is something the union or the workers wouldn't agree to. Amazon doesn't just deliver parcels once or twice a week.
DeleteWe used to have mail service couriers that picked up mail on the weekends. Moya Greene stopped that. I asked her how does not picking up mail on Saturdays increase business revenue? She could not answer. She didn't care about business revenue because she was a one trick pony. Slash services, slash jobs and get a bigger bonus.