@cumos55 wrote:Parcel delivery... 7 days each week..... including weekends...
Did I read that correctly?
Is that the union or CPC? ....... CPC Is cutting back.....and more with community mailboxes
That is the union offer. The union is offering 7 day a week service. The union is offering management a way to go after the couriers and steal all the business away from them and increase the profits for management.
Everything else in there is nickel and dime stuff.
Union is offering a way for lower paid part timers to get in. All they really want is protection for long suffering employees to get a little guarantee.
In my town, that would gut the couriers as they only work M-F.
@mr.elmwood wrote:Rose, darling, you were supposed to say "SNIPE".
Sorry, am I being dull-witted today? SNIPE? Expliquez, SVP. 
@mr.elmwood wrote:Rose, darling, you were supposed to say "SNIPE".
There hasn't been a proper snipe on any of the boards since Lithium took over. A couple of posters tried and got "moderated"!
Any talk about 7 day delivery is for packages only not letter or admail. I've got a pretty good idea why the Union would offer this and why Canada Post wouldn't be interested in THEIR offer.
If CP were to do full time 7 day delivery (as they do for a few weeks at Christmas) it would all be done by non-union contractors. "Sorry CUPW, great idea but we don't need you for that".
CUPW needs to come back to earth, Defined Benefit pensions seemed like a fantastic idea in the 60's & 70's but by the mid-80's people (employers) realized they were unworkable. The public sector is about the only place Defined Benefit pensions still exist, private sector companies even those with "gold plated" plans and/or unions have almost entirely moved to Defined Contribution plans. And then there are the millions of independent self-employed, something that was a tiny minority 50 years ago, they (as in people like eBay sellers) have no pension plans other than what they can create entirely on their own.
When you are the 100th post, you are supposed to say SNIPE. Message board protocol.
Back in the olden days, some threads would go into 200-300 replies. It was customary to fight for each 100th and holler SNIPE.
Kids today, humph.
@mr.elmwood wrote:When you are the 100th post, you are supposed to say SNIPE. Message board protocol.
Thank you for coming back and clarifying. I was left in a real conundrum trying to figure out what last minute bidding had to do with my post. Huh?
Come to think of it, we've had lots of discussions that went over the 100 mark for years and I don't recall anyone calling out "SNIPE", so 'recped' is probably right that the last one was ages ago. Sorry darling.
P.S. My husband just told me that CBC is reporting that CPC has rejected the union's offer (not a surprise). Stay tuned all.
@ypdc_dennis wrote:
@cumos55 wrote:Parcel delivery... 7 days each week..... including weekends...
Canada Post wants to eliminate overtime pay for weekends and holidays to give themselves more delivery flexibility.
CUPW has come back with a counter proposal for 7 day workers.
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They want to change their business model, that they propagated, that they agreed to, oh, um, wait a minute, "Do over". They want to do this by subtracting. The union has proposed to achieve this by adding.
Management has crewed up the business model, no-one else. That Mr Five Year Guaranteed $500K A Year Chopra is blaming the employees for what he got wrong is, well, finger pointing.
