@indiansummernights wrote:
They have a very good chance of getting what they want in arbitration if they want equality like equal pay for female carriers like they claim. Because as they said it's the law not an award. Arbitration is inevitable because the government is only going to let this go on for so long so the union would be better off agreeing to a binding arbitration instead of being forced into it.
Historically speaking, binding arbitration has not worked well for CUPW. It's expensive and time-consuming. A two-year process to reach an arbitrated agreement in the late 1990s ended up going nowhere. In the 2000s, the arbitrators appointed by the government were found by the courts to be less than impartial.
The way things seem to be set up, the employer still holds most of the cards when it comes to binding arbitration. CUPW has been led down the river at least twice on this now. I can't blame them for being less than enthusiastic about the idea.
@indiansummernights wrote:
The greed I'm referring too is them putting their self interests before what's best for their co-workers. They are not going to get what they want because CP feels that it's not affordable yet they are putting jobs at risk (the longer this drags on the more money CP loses which could result in job cuts due to the corporation not having enough money to pay all the their employees and other expenses) and are going to cause the postal workers to get less than what they would have if CUPW had either accepted the arbitration or taken CP's final deal all because they can only think about what they want.
I'm not clear on whose "self interests" you're referring. I mean, isn't t the whole point of unions that there's a degree of self-interest in their activities? As far as the union's proposals being unaffordable, that's an oft-taken line by employers who haven't bothered doing the number-crunching for themselves. If there was serious negotiating going on, the union's numbers would be crunched by the employer and counter-proposals would be put forth, and I see no evidence of that going on.
