‘Canada Post Worker Speaks Out Against Union’

[momcqueen]

https://globalnews.ca/video/4679427/canada-post-workers-speak-out-against-union

[katlover1952]

This does not really a surprise to me. I said earlier if I was a member of this union I would be angry that they turned down CP’s last offer without consulting with workers.  The tail wagging the dog syndrome.

[momcqueen]

No, certainly not a surprise to me either. What I find significant with this is that it’s the first trickle through a crack in the dam; other news outlets will now look for their own local sources of dissent within their coverage areas and before long whatever solidarity existed has evaporated.

Whatever places pressure on getting this resolved faster is what I want to see. Sellers and online shoppers shouldn’t be the only people feeling the pressure of this labor dispute.

[katlover1952]

I too expect there may be lots who are dissatisfied with how their union is handling this. Problem is even if it got settled today, which it won't because Trudeau will never do what Harper did & legislate them back, it is too late for the Christmas season. Any sales we get going forward there is no way to guarantee them delivery by Christmas. I am sure you are affected more than most with selling the one thing that people will  do anything to get for Christmas.  I just think the whole situation is a shame. Many people's Christmas will be spoiled. There are people in Canada who rely on on-line as they cannot get to a big mall to make purchases. I really feel the union is being unreasonable although I know there are some on these Boards who are sympathetic to them. But looking at this situation realistically with postal costs increasing every January to offset these demands how long is this sustainable.

[marnotom!]

Interviewing an urban letter carrier for an opinion on the current labour dispute is a bit like interviewing a school district electrician for an opinion on a labour dispute that also involves education assistants, bus drivers, custodians, and other waged support workers.

The interviewee's opinions are going to be largely shaped by their job description.  They may have an intellectual understanding of what their colleagues are experiencing, but until they've actually worked those other jobs, they're not going to have the same perspective.

[momcqueen]

It is illogical for CUPW bosses to claim that postal workers should be proud of the backlog of 600 trailers each containing an average of 2500 parcels that they've created (as they did in their memo to workers last Thursday) while still insisting their actions aren't meant to cause harm to the general public (yesterday via media interviews) within the span of less than a week. Those two statements directly contradict one another.

Exactly to whom does CUPW think those 1.5 million parcels belong to? Canada Post upper management? The CPC negotiating team? 

No, those parcels belong to the Canadian shoppers and online sellers like me.

We are the ones being harmed but this, no one else.

Even the postal workers who don't get strike pay for missing a day of work (or two) while on rotating strike still have something to gain from this situation, whereas ebay sellers and hundreds of thousands of other small business owners in Canada only lose.  

Sellers and small business owners lose. Buyers lose.

I'm losing sales, I'm falling behind in my bills right now because my November sales are almost 20 per cent lower as a direct result of this labour dispute, nothing else. I sell toys and this is Christmas. This is when I am supposed to make the profits to tie me over through the dry months ahead. 

Now what? I have to contort myself to export internationally via a mail consolidator who will take my parcels and dump them in the USA for mailing, hike all of my prices to cover domestic courier fees, and then also start shaking my rear end around Winnipeg to drum up Local Pickup interest. 

Great, I cannot wait.