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Bearing in mind however if the upcoming forced vote is voted down, best case things get sent to and resolved in arbitration, worst case they lock everyone out again and once more it's completely shut down. Hopefully that doesn't happen.
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That's already how it works. They can already do most of what they want with the current collective agreement. What they really want though is a new lower tier workforce they can pay less and will lack the same benefits/pension.
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The only strike action taking place is a overtime ban, people are still working and everything is getting delivered.
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Canda post is perfectly capable of making enough money to run itself, the only reason it hasn't is mismanagement. Everything you have said would only lead to the company being torn apart with the profitable parts being sold off and the leftovers becoming a forced taxpayer burden.
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They use carbon capture all the time as a example, which is a greatly flawed technology that has not even remotely lived up to the claims. At least the government FINALLY! did something right with Bill C-59, preventing corps from greenwashing aka lieing to people, about this kind of stuff.
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"Decabonized oil" is just O&G industry speak for ,give us more taxpayer dollars to partially clean up the mess we have made so we can keep raking in billions of profits for our shareholders. Since of course, line must always go up, always, forever.
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They were both terrible options, I wish the NDP had managed to stand for something rather then chasing the coattails of the other party's but sadly it was not to be. We desperately need a new party to be viable or the NDP to get there shit together.
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There were so many memes of carny taking off the mask to reveal trudeau, in reality it feels more like PP or at least harper behind the mask, which is not really surprising but is deeply disappointing. I don't want to sound like a US resident but damn it this is not what we wanted. XD
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People always say we need to privatize cause public services suck, but what is it that private can do that public can't, and if the answer is exploit there customers/workers more then is that really what we want. Or do we instead want our public services funded and run properly.
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Why don't you do some price comparison, I tossed in a 22kg 30x30x30 package from one side of the country to the other, CPs lowest rate was $74, fedex/purolator/ups all ranged from $234/$340 at the cheapest. By means if you want to pay 3x the price for all your future shipping we don't need the post.
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Private business exits to extract as much value out of you as possible, a public service that is run properly will provide the same service at a lower total cost to the consumer. Advocating for more and more privatization is just asking to get exploited.
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As was recently shown in the auditor generals reports the government has massive issues in actually doing its job when it comes to accountability.
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Not to mention that cuts are not new, they have been cutting our workforce for years and it has produced no meaningful results for them, all they have done is make the job more physically straining and toxic reducing service quality. Canada Post has no future under it's current management.
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It is the government so I'm not at all shocked, this also could have been over had they accepted the request for binding arbitration, something they originally had wanted themselves. Now after spending a lot of time and money directly manipulating there workers they feel they can sneak through a win
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Not to mention throughout the negotiation the union moved massively on its demands but the corporation didn't budge in any meaningful way. They truly had zero intention to negotiate, directly harming the company by forcing a strike once again. Worker never want to go on strike, there forced to.
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Rather then selling it they should merge it Into Canada Post, have them Handle larger deliverys and bulk shipments, the current management needs to go and should the government want to keep the current system closely as is, then the union needs to take up half the board of directors seats.
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They have TVs everywhere constantly cycling company talking points and QR codes to there website. They have sent out multiple letters directly to all employees to influence them. They have not once bargained in good faith, even having all this challenged will take years dragged out in court.
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The carriers simply take what there given in a day and deliver it, they are not responsible for the decisions that have made the company worse over time. They only get the chance every 4 years to fight to make the company better and have consistently lost. Management should have been sacked long ago
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He's 100% correct, CP having the government interfere in the last several contracts has put them in a position where they didn't even try to bargin at all. They knew that the government would interfere again and blatantly acted accordingly. If our rights only matter when convenient then we have none
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Voting yes will lead to a gutted workforce that will see the quality of Canada Posts services decline even more making it even less viable. You cannot build a successful company through mass cuts, we need new and expanded services. The current leadership needs to go.
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Big banks couldn't compete with the rates Canada Post could offer, thus they lobbied the government to increase them so they could profit. Imagine if the government had turned them down and we still had a strong postal bank in this country. It's beyond time it makes a return.
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Unfortunately one of the unions weaknesses seems to be public involvement, they will post about rallys going on but unless your activity looking for it it's easy to miss. The best they've got is the hands off our post office campaign. www.cupw.ca/en/campaigns...
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The problem is they have no interest in actually expanding services, there only plan involves gutting the workforce, replacing good tax paying jobs with a part time gig force that will never get benefits and will drastically reduce both worker quality of life and the quality of the service overall.
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And yet we keep letting them control the naritive and keep getting elected. We need to get a party elected that will lead to real change. Hopefully the RPC get more traction in the next round.
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Nationalize oil.
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At the end of the day it is the workers of CP that want it to succeed the most, it's been painful watching the executive run the company into the ground, hiding the true costs of there poor decisions and policy's in general financial statements blaming everyone but themselves.
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How does a company that’s losing billions spend $4-billion in five years on buildings, machinery, vehicles that they don’t even need??? How can a company that’s losing billions pay 300+ executives six-figure salaries plus five-figure bonuses every year??
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Solidarity with #CUPW. This union has always been the front line ground breaker for unions and workers across Canada. They’ve sacrificed to fight to ensure safety, maternity, better wages and benefits, etc. There is no winner for workers when it’s a race to the bottom.
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One of the main reasons we don't have postal banking right now is when we had it the interest rates were so low the other major banks had to lobby against it to compete. Imagine if the government had said no.
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Thats exactly the way it is. We have seen countless examples of private company's moving in claiming to be cheaper and more efficient only to cost more and bail once things become unprofitable. What our public services need is more funding and more accountability in how there run.
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A part of it wasn't just because of the union, but a large portion of canadains pushed back against CMBs back in I believe 2016. There are a lot of safety concerns with CMBs and a increase in theft when you have 20+ addresses of mail sitting in one convenient location.
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It's the same with everything, our utilitys, rail, healthcare, schools, so on. Either run it poorly on purpose, defund it or both then claim it just can't be run publicly and privitize. Private healthcare for one be it services or nurses is costing canadians double if not more then just funding it.
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Which means rather then urban profits it will be up to Canadian tax payers to subsidize the cost of rural delivery. Along with the fact that private industry exists to make as much money off of you as possible, not to deliver good service, we have seen many examples of this. 2/2
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You know what could have prevented that loss, actually negotiating, the company had over a year to come to any kind of agreement but utterly refused to do so, they would have saved money just coming to a agreement then forcing a strike but they do not care how much they lose. They want privitization
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No one works 2 hours and gets payed for 8, this whole naritive is bullshit. The people who "only work 4 hours" are coming in 2 hours early, not taking any of there hours worth of breaks. It is also the company who allows it to happen, they can at any time return to the old clock in and clock out.