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Canada Post strike update: Postal employees back to work
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- Title
- The Canada Post strike is over, but it will take time to get back to normal, says spokesperson
- Published
- Dec 17 2024
Or is it?
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/12/17/canada-post-yvr-picket-line-richmond/
Now that is solidarity
I'm generally against unions being forced to stop their labour actions, because that's the only peaceful pressure tool they have. Wonder what the general opinions are here on Tildes?
I don't like it. To your point, this is he only peaceful protest tool they have. If they can just be forced back to work, then what's the point of doing it? I think this is a backwards way of handling it and incredibly anti union.
I know why they did it. If they got nothing now, they sure as hell aren't getting anything once the conservatives come in. But now they are just screwed and not getting anything good for a long time.
Yeah, I 100% supported the strike. This is a shame. I fully expect the conservatives to try to privatize it and everything else they can, screwing over the vast majority of Canadians.
Canada Post is the last line of defense for rural Canadians. When you live so far apart from each other or from major cities that no other carrier will deliver your unprofitable [to the delivery company] items, Canada Post will.
Should rural Canadians vote in a Con government, have Canada Post privatized, and see their rates go up, they'll only have themselves to blame.
For context I'm one of the rail workers that was sent back to work this summer after less than a day because the two major railways lined us up to force us all out on the same day. They (the railways) also wound down operations in advance of the lock outs so that their customers would already be putting pressure on the government before day 1. We're still waiting to get an arbitrated contract, that process is scheduled to BEGIN in march or may (I get them mixed up). I'm incredibly bitter about how that all was handled and I could continue to go on about it...
For additional context my wife owns a (physical and online) retail store and we have at least one shipment of product stuck at Canada Post and I'm fairly certain we have some outbound packages to customers that may be stuck as well. Also, some of our customers in rural areas that are affected because they're only serviced by Canada Post.
I think its important that we let workers strike, but there does come a point where its no longer productive. I don't know where you draw that line, but 4 weeks seems like its in the ballpark of reasonable.
Personally, I agree. That said, one argument is that Canada Post doesn't appreciate how irrelevant it's becoming since more than half of its business has either evaporated or been coopted over the last 20 years.
I don't know what's next for Canada Post but if they're hoping to stay around, there will be layoffs coming and rehires at a far lower rate after that. Just as the union is pushing for proper treatment for its members, it sincerely hope that it's also pushing the employer to bring its business into the 21 century.
the postal union says: