I wasn’t surprised to see that CUPW thugs continue to barricade the sorting plant on Almon Street on Monday morning. It can’t occur to them that a starting wage of 24 dollars an hour and two months of vacation every year, for someone with no college degree, is unusual. News to CUPW: get an education and get a real job, because Harper is going to end your corrupt monopoly on lettermail delivery in Canada. Your days are numbered. —Regular Worker
This article appears in Jun 23-29, 2011.
Corrupt monopoly? I can send a letter anywhere in Canada for .59 cents. How much would it be for FedEx or UPS?
This is your pal Harper chipping away at labour unions. He knows something about corruption all right.
Mr. Maps, you are an idiot:
“The Canada Post Corporation Act(1) (CPCA) was enacted in 1981 as the successor to a series of statutes that had governed Canadian postal services since Confederation. The CPCA removed postal operations from a department of government, under the Postmaster General, to Canada Post, a Crown corporation. According to the CPCA, the object of the Canada Post Corporation is to operate a financially self-sustaining universal postal service throughout Canada that will meet the needs of the people of Canada.(2) In section 5 of the CPCA, postal service is defined as the “collection, transmission and delivery of messages, information, funds and goods both within Canada and between Canada and places outside Canada.””
http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/Leg…
And further: “To provide universal postal service throughout Canada, Canada Post is granted a monopoly for certain classes of letters and for certain mail activities. Letters covered by the monopoly include mail weighing under 500 grams that is specifically addressed to a recipient and that is not excluded in the Letter Definition Regulations.(3) The specific activities covered by the monopoly are found in sections 14 and 15 of the CPCA under the “Exclusive Privilege of Corporation” heading. (4) Section 14(1) states that Canada Post “has the sole and exclusive privilege of collecting, transmitting and delivering letters to the addressee thereof within Canada.”(5) Activities exempted from this monopoly are found in section 15 of the CPCA and include personal delivery without payment by various entities, legal documents issued by a court of justice, letters lawfully brought into Canada for subsequent postage, express mail for a fee that is more than three times the postage rate of letters weighing under 50 grams delivered by Canada Post, intra-office mail in an organization, letters delivered by electronic or optical means, and letters delivered by foreign military forces in Canada with the consent of the Government of Canada.”
I hope they are so backlogged with post mail that they go postal and snap on each other. That should reduce the union numbers.
So what has the monopoly that Canada Post enjoys have to do with Harper sabotaging the collective bargaining process and ordering workers of a non-essential service back to work at a wage less than the last offer from management? Anonymouscritic1?
fuck the postal system, its dated and can be done by computers, see, you got this message in a matter of seconds, lmfao
Let’s end this monopoly and privatize the whole works. Competition has a bracing effect on efficiency and productivity. Private letter service will be cheaper in urban areas. Rural (and to a lesser extent suburban) residents can start paying the true cost of services to their regions, instead of relying on everyone else to subsidize them.
I bet your precious Harper is going to sort out the gays, single mothers, and atheists too. But first, let’s disband all unions so we can have more workplace deaths and stolen pensions please.
fuck cupw ansd the rest of the alphabet groups too.
Fuck UNICEF!
posties starting out make less than 12 dollars per hour..please get your basic facts right before blowing your mouth off,it’s embarassing…
Halifaxmentor: the contractors might start out at 12 but the union members start at 23. Looks like you are as confused as Mr. Maps.
sodeypop, it isn’t the company’s, the union’s or the government’s job to save pensions for workers. Take some responsibility for yourself.
Hilarious that the negative comments stem from jealousy! HILARIOUS. Hate that Unionized people make a working wage, working reasonable hours and have pensionable benefits? Then change jobs and shut the fuck up.
No one cares that you make less than the person who delivers your mail.
PS There are no urban postal contractors that is why you didn’t have mail for two weeks. Ugh.
SrsHRM, I recommend reading comprehension classes.
No one claimed there were urban contractors, so get lost. No one said anything about us making less than the postal workers: they said people who never went to college shouldn’t be making 24 an hour and get 2 months of vacation on the public dime and on a public monopoly. Have fun in your socialist fantasy and look forward to the next four years.
I wish I had of been wanting to go into that postal facility..”Ooops I thought I was hitting the brake! Must have been the accelerator! My bad”. Really, how do these union idiots get away with breaking the law?
Actually my negative comments stem from the fact that my job relies like 90% on getting mail so right now I’m at home doing nothing, not getting paid. I am so grateful for my job which pays considerably less than yours but it is above minimum wage, full-time and flexible. I am only a high school graduate as of now so I don’t really expect anything more, unlike the lot of postal workers. You’re sooo out of touch it’s ridiculous.
Well Put Mel. So much of the anti-union sentiment here is not inspired by jealousy of their privileges; it is a visceral reaction to their insufferable arrogance and sense of entitlement. A recession is never a good time to rub our noses in it.
LOL @ “thugs.” Postal Workers are the mightiest gangsters.
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Do they really start at that wage and get two months off ?!?!? Ill do it for less haha!
“dragonflytamer” … what a sh** job!