From postal strike to postal strife and stroke: ebay sellers should also protest

[momcqueen]

Getting into the spirit of 'peaceful protest' and 'civil disobedience' who else thinks it would be a grand idea to stage performance art protests using our ebay-branded shipping supplies to maximum impact?

My best idea so far: ebay-created tape bodies in ebay-branded cardboard shanty towns to occupy the parking lots in key areas demonstrating (literally) how the postal strike has: (a) left online sellers out in the cold; (b) forced us into the streets where we now contemplate living in cardboard boxes using our hard-earned shipping supplies we have no orders to pack into, and (c) mummified remains of sellers wrapped in ebay tape so show how we starved to death as a result of being the forgotten collateral damage in a labour dispute between the union and management.

Eh? 

[snoopwiz]

Wow, finally a use for the "free" shipping supplies. Whodathunkit?  Can I get back to you in, oh, let's say June, perhaps July?

[cumos55]

We shall remember.    The best time for eBay sellers  to address the concerns of any future strike  should be early in 2019..... February or March.

Our record will be for the time during the strike  and then after the strike.

Everything will cool down... sort of.

We must be careful  how we proceed, and wake up the Postal Union to a new reality at the "right" time in  a safe and quiet manner.

[momcqueen]

Yes. We would be wise instead to take the high road as entertaining as a performance art protest would be.

[cumos55]

More unions do the same as what has been happening in British Columbia.

from the CUPW website...... dated November 29, 2018.

" This morning, we were informed that union and community members in Ontario set up picket lines at the Hamilton Processing Plant in Hamilton last night and the Tecumseh Post Office in Windsor today. "

No CUPW People involved....

[heartovermind]

A creative mind with creative protests.

My "protest" walking by picketers last week on the way to work

was to start by telling them how worried I was about 

parcels I shipped getting stuck in limbo.

Then I told them that 50% of Ontario workers are now stuck in precarious

employment, and these people could only dream of the high

quality jobs/wages/benefits/protection that CP workers get.

Then when they started mouthing off to me I gave it right back at them.

What a sense of entitlement.

[cumos55]

and more ...  from the CUPW website, November 30, 2018

"This past week, supporters of free collective bargaining have been raising their voices in support of postal workers and decent working conditions. In Vancouver, Hamilton, Windsor, Whitehorse, Halifax and Edmonton protests have erupted at or near postal facilities. Voices have been raised and the message clearly heard that the government cannot sweep their latest attack on the rights of workers under the rug.

This weekend there are at least 19 more protests scheduled across the country.

• Calgary: Harry Hayes Building, 220 4 Avenue SE, 12pm – Facebook event
• Charlottetown: 75 Fitzroy Road, 12pm – Facebook event
• Chilliwack: 7388 Vedder Road, 12pm – Facebook event
• Durham Region: 1154 Kingston Road, Pickering, 1pm – Facebook event
• Edmonton: End of Steel Park, 12pm – Facebook event
• Grand Prairie: Revolution Place, South Side – Facebook event
• Guelph: 88 Wyndham Street North – Facebook event
• Halifax: TBA
• Kelowna: Parkinson Recreation Centre, 9am – Facebook
• Kingston: 120 Clarence Street, 12pm – Facebook event
• Lethbridge: Downtown Post Office – Facebook event
• London: Victoria Park, 11:30am – Facebook event
• Mississauga: City Hall, 12pm – Facebook event
• Montreal: Métro Jarry, 12pm – Facebook event
• Ottawa: Rideau Centre, 11am – Facebook event
• Prince George: 808 Canada Games Way, 3pm – Facebook event
• Red Deer: TBA 
• Regina: 310 University Park Drive, 12pm – Facebook event
• The Pas: 161 Fischer Avenue – Facebook event
• Thompson: City Hall – Facebook event
• Timmins: Algonquin Boulevard and Pine Street, 12pm – Facebook event
• Toronto: 1180 Danforth Avenue – Facebook event
• Vancouver: 1245 West Broadway, 12pm – Facebook event
• Victoria: BC Legislature, 12pm – Facebook event
• Weyburn: TBA
• Winnipeg: Museum of Human Rights, 12pm – Facebook event
• Yellowknife: 5109 48th Street – Facebook event "

[cumos55]

We must quietly observe what is happening...... and not get involved.....

[momcqueen]

Is anyone paying attention to these protests aside from us?

[cumos55]

One protest may not get much attention

But... with close to 30 protests across Canada....  at about the same time and across Canada, things will be different.

That is when the public must understand what the effect of the strike was on Canadian online sellers.  and .....How Canada Post meets the needs of online sellers

and then why Canada Post has been affected significantly with a backlog of parcels.

At first we must focus on the relationship between Canada Post and online sellers...

We shall watch the protests,  and not interfere...  eventually we will focus on the effect of the strike,  and more...

A few steps at a time.....

[cumos55]

From the CUPW website.....  November 30, 2018

"Can you help us organize in one of these cities or elsewhere? Sign up here to volunteer."

[forester_studios]

I guess the unions think an ongoing attack on ebay workers rights is great. Oh wait, I guess we have no rights as the media doesn't know we exist.

[momcqueen]

https://www.cp24.com/mobile/news/members-of-several-unions-block-entrances-to-canada-post-facility-i...

Media knows eBay sellers exist when we tell them we do.

Time to start protesting as users of Canada Post ourselves?

[lachnrd]

It seems to me that the police are also a part of the problem for not making them move as it’s not legal to block roads like some are doing. Halifax police are the only ones with a backbone and made them leave so far.

[momcqueen]

I don’t know the specifics of the land-use where these facilities are placed but enforcement may also depend on precisely where the blockades are placed and whether it’s public or private land.

[cumos55]

We need the Government to step in and say what is ... or is not.....acceptable.

If the postal union is involved,   then that is most likely a problem  for the union's leadership.

This is starting to look like something close to a "wildcat" strike......   Winnipeg 1919... ???

[cumos55]

Initially it was not my decision to go out today....

However, it was my final choice to visit the Human Rights Museum in downtown Winnipeg.

Got there about `12.30 PM.  There was a small group there.... quiet... not noisy ...

There were two plaques ... One was quite interesting...had to drive by twice to read it correctly as...

We did not elect ebay to govern

ebay was presented in four different colors.... could not see if the colors were correct

This was a quiet recognition that eBay had contributed in getting the Government to pass back-to-work legislation

[muscoviteman]

Yep...so keep those eBay stickers off parcels.
The right of collective bargaining is taken very seriously by the labour movement and it is a legal right. Overriding that with legislation is taken as being designated as wage slaves. I know some here thought postal workers would go happily back to work as usual once back to work legislation was passed but I knew better. It will likely take many months for things to settle.
As for eBay warning buyers there may be delays...that is necessary. The buyers have a right to know that. As far as eBay is concerned it is better to lose a few sales for a time than to lose unhappy buyers forever. I also expect the postal situation is contributing to eBay.ca 's lack of free listing features.

[momcqueen]

“Yep...so keep those eBay stickers off parcels.
The right of collective bargaining is taken very seriously by the labour movement and it is a legal right.”

Is that a threat?

[forester_studios]

Statements like that show a sad, pathetic, entitled and very unprofessional attitude. Do we sellers not have a right to expect our packages will be delivered in a timely, conscientious manner? We pay, often ridiculously high prices, as customers of Canada post for the service. What happened to customers rights? (You know the ones whose money pays the salaries of these people).