3w ago

The Liberals Are Bailing Out Canada Post Management Again

www.readthemaple.com

The federal government is doing management’s bidding by undermining CUPW and forcing a vote on a substandard offer.

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In 2-3 years when there's another nation-wide strike, I wonder whether anyone in the Liberal party is going to put together that workers at Canada Post are still trying to fight the company on issues they brought up 10-15 years ago because they can't get management to the table since the government keeps doing their dirty work.
I would be really surprised if there's no rolling job action this Christmas season if they're legislated back (again).
God damn, Liberals you have an open goal here. Side with workers just once, throw your weight behind a real labor movement, and you’d leave Conservatives scrambling in the dust. But no. Instead, it’s all half-measures while letting corporations run the show. Missed opportunities are practically your brand at this point.
This whole saga is so incredibly frustrating. You have a situation where things have to change. The management is trying to restructure because the money does not exist to maintain the status quo. The Union refuses to budge, and based on this article, their best solution is to legislate away the competition? Even if that were to happen, it's not Canada Post management that will be making that decision, and it's effects would not be immediate. Does the union just plan to sit at home forever?
- Canada Post is a public service and allowed to operate in the red. It does not need, and should not be required to, make a profit.
  
  No, it's not. It's a crown corporation and is expected to pay for itself. You could aruge it shouldn't be that way, but that's the state of things right now.
  
  Tax revenue is a fixed size pool of money. Canada Post may not need to make a profit, but it does need to break even. There are many other things that money needs to be spent on.
- From the other perspective it's not a great deal either. Gutting those decent jobs of the current posties and essentially turning them all into part time (poorer paid with less benefits) jobs isn't great either.
  We don't need to have Canada Post turn into the Amazon-equivalent "make them piss in bottles so they meet their quotas" to make this work. And if we do need to go that far, then it's the recipients that need to adjust their expectations of deliveries. It's not up to Canada Post to turn into a shit place to work to meet unrealistic delivery expectations.
  I refuse to order from Amazon due to how shit their delivery companies treat their employees. Sure the package gets to me a few days later ordering from others, but if it means the delivery folk are actually valued and compensated accordingly, then I'm fine with that. I am not OK treating delivery drivers like shit just so I get my Chinese junk a day or two faster.
- Competition is the spin-doctored way of saying exploitation.

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