Canada Post vice-president Jon Hamilton told Global News on Saturday that there has not been a “major breakthrough” in talks with the Canadian Union of Postal Employees (CUPW) as a nationwide strike enters its second week.
Hamilton said the financially struggling company wants to reach a fair deal with its workers but “there’s only so far we can go.”
Global’s Amandalina Letterio reports.
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Every week, there is public union that get paid more and have more benefits while delivering poor service…..never ends. 👎🏻
They only care about their fat jobs….useless
Get back to work. As each day passes you strikers are only hurting yourselves! Small business owners are going elsewhere already . More money loss for Canada post! In return it’ll get tougher to get what you’re begging for! Stop being greedy and get back to work!
How about firing the CEO and 24 vice presidents for gross mismanagement??? Stop going after the working class who actually move the mail. The amount of jealously here is outstanding.
crown corp can't compete with private companies
Get rid of your top heavy bureaucracy and streamline your operations with intelligent solutions instead of doughheads making decisions for the entire Canadian population.
So a company paid by my tax dollars are losing money and are asking for a raise with my tax dollars? Idiot's…
He is telling a lye. Not all full time and part time employees are not getting $30 hr. It is mare $26 everage
Mandate there aseess now!
If ya want a Garenteed late parcels. Use Canada post! Truth hurts.
They make way too much money as it is….f em
Over $300 mil loss on one quarter… They're hemorrhaging tax money
The Canada Post employees need to realize they work in a dying business. Any other company would be out of business especially after losing that much money.
2:21 they making 30 bucks per hour and still want more? most people making minium wage ffs.
To All Media Organization in Canada . . . . Please ask Canada Post Management The Following
1) Whose Fault is it if Sales Volumes are down for the last few years.
2) Why did Management give themselves Bonuses and Incentives this year if they are are making losses
3) Did they offer Bonuses and Incentives to Union Members
4) Do they say Investments in a new state of the art mail processing plant is part of the loss
5) Do they say that part of the loss is also because they purchased new EV Delivery Van's which are not being used ? Why were they purchased.
6) Is the Management negotiating for 1 year with the Union and allowed the strike to happen in the peak period ?
I Urge the All The Canadian Media to push Canada Post Spokesperson to answer these questions.
Thank You
P.S. Most responses to this post are from Management !!!
Why this guy doesn’t tells the people management gets bonuses and too many staff also half os money go for them
You put mail in boxes you're not splitting the atom or even skilled labor you're over paid and under worked as is STOP BEING GREEDY
Canada post is a failing buisness and is being propped up by tax dollars. They are the worst/most expensive delivery service in Canada and should be disbanded
This is really negatively impacting people who sell and buy cards on ebay
Just privatize it already
New letter carriers get paid $22/hr and they don't think that is enough, well welcome to the real world!
They should go bankrupt and start fresh. Get rid of both management and union. The management is useless for not having any vision and running business into the ground. The union needs to go as they don't understand that there are lots of new shipping companies can do their job for way less cost. They are lucky to have that job.
Disgusting.
So just give me my mail
I just want my belstaff jacket bro 😢
Tell canada post to,shut it down and let uber eats and skip dishes drivers name amed and toktooween and don't forget boogiecocnut them boys will get it done!
Workers should get back to work. They already make a good wage.. they make over minimum wage, try getting a second job like everyone else that need more money
Canada post is still a thing for who and what the only mail they give me is flyers and maybe phone books if that's them everything they give me goes straight to recycling it never comes inside my house
Weirdly, most folks don’t care. We have been using currier for important mail for years…
overpaid workers. payroll needs to go down at least 315 million, everyone needs to have a pay cut. otherwise, just wind up the business
$450,000 wage for CEO, $300,000 wage for 15 VPs? But you can't pay the people who do the hard work a living wage? How about not taking the thousands and thousands of dollars you call your "at risk pay" aka your bonuses.
To All Media Organization in Canada . . . . Please ask Canada Post Management The Following
1) Whose Fault is it if Sales Volumes are down for the last few years.
2) Why did Management give themselves Bonuses and Incentives this year if they are are making losses
3) Did they offer Bonuses and Incentives to Union Members
4) Do they say Investments in a new state of the art mail processing plant is part of the loss
5) Do they say that part of the loss is also because they purchased new EV Delivery Van's which are not being used ? Why were they purchased.
6) Is the Management negotiating for 1 year with the Union and allowed the strike to happen in the peak period ?
7) Who is responsible for the mismanagement and incompetency of running the corporation that keep loosing profit year after year ?
I Urge the All The Canadian Media to push Canada Post Spokesperson to answer these questions.
The employees were offered 11% but they want 22%! They (the employees) do not have the same control over the employer as they have had. The company is losing a ton of money regardless of the reason. To be offered anything is amazing really. Canada Post is rapidly becoming irrelevant and the employees better start accepting their fate. Heading into the 2nd week of strike and most people don't care. Brutal reality.
I can’t take these workers seriously they literally make way more than most of us and their work is generally less unforgiving. They also think delaying everyone’s Christmas mail is a surefire way to garner public support.
These people make over 60 Thousand $$ a yr ! I have ZERO sympathy for them ! Go back to work and Quit acting like a bunch of crybabies ! And 55 thousand employees is a ridiculous amount for the amount of freight that you move ! Fed ex moves more pieces with less people and pay less money to their people. That is why Canada Post can't compete in the parcel business !
Stop the strike get back to work please
Disband Canada post. The annual Christmas strike. We pay tax for this and more when we buy postage. Enough is enough. Wide layoffs and declaration of closure is what's needed. CP is unnecessary with all the delivery services available. Why are we taxed for this nonsense? Go work for UPS or FedEx at competitive rates.
How come the government hasnt forced them back to work ??? Yet, let ilwu canada back to work ?????? Government corruption at its best 👌 ,canada is at its worse ever ,its done as a country ,elections now !!!!
50,000 postal workers stop working and no one notices (or cares).
How is John Hamilton still collecting a paycheque..this clown has overseen the entire demise of this company ,blames the workers and sits in his ivory tower like he and all of management and all of their high salaries don’t have any hand in it ….he should be the first one fired …start talking about all the vehicles that Canada post bought that they count as a loss and the 470 million dollar parcel plant ..I like how short sighted John Hamilton leaves much of the story out ….go after management not the front line little guy !
Legislating the union back to work destroys ALL workers rights!!! It's in everyone's best interest for the negotiations to proceed to a natural conclusion.
Shut it down. I wouldn't miss Canada Post. Amazon and others can deliver things at a fraction of the cost and 10x the apeed.
I couldn't care less if Canada post went bankrupt. The useless company costs Canadians millions.
Canada post, start hiring and replacing. So many people without jobs right now.
We should privatize the mail service
They should be called mail engineers with that kind of salary and benefits
Private sector workers earn less, work more: report
Published Monday, March 23, 2015
The average public sector employee makes 18 to 37 per cent more than a comparable employee working in the private sector, according to a new report from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.
The report, which compares employee compensation in the private and public sectors found that, when salaries, benefits and working hours are factored in, a private sector employee makes up to $8,150 less per year, and works up to six hours more each week, compared to someone doing the same job for the government.
If government workers were paid at the same rate as their private sector counterparts, Canadian taxpayers would save up to $20 billion a year, according to the report.
CFIB chief economist Ted Mallett said, while the numbers are startling, the organization has arrived at similar conclusions in previous reports on the subject.
"We've been finding this for decades," he told CTV's Canada AM on Monday. "The numbers don't really change a whole lot, so we're hoping we can start to get some traction to make the cost of our government a lot more affordable."
He added that the $20 billion figure is likely an underestimate, as the CFIB was not able to find good metrics to measure certain employee benefits.
The report, which relied on data from the 2011 National Household Survey, found that the compensation gap widens when employment benefits including working hours and pensions were taken into account. The findings are based on the average full-time employment earnings of more than 7.2 million Canadians.
Other highlights of the report include:
The federal government had the largest compensation gap, with a salary premium of 13 per cent, growing to 33.2 per cent once benefits were accounted for;
The salary premium for municipal employees was 8.9 per cent, growing to 22.3 per cent with benefits;
The salary premium for provincial government employees was 5.5 per cent, growing to 21.2 per cent with benefits;
Among the various public sectors, Canada Post employees had one of the biggest salary premiums of 16.6 per cent, growing to 36.9 per cent with benefits;
For 2010, annual wages and salaries for the public sector ranged from $51,029 to $69,833, compared to $48,872 to $61,688 for private sector employees.
Mallett said that the gap between public sector and private sector compensation is likely due to the lack of a competitive marketplace for public services.
Unlike the private sector, where wages are often tied to the value of a particular product in the open market, there is no comparable way to determine wages in the public sector, he said, noting that public sector unions, particularly in strike situations, also play a role in driving the wage gap.
"The point is, they'd like to run government efficiently, but they want to get people back to work first, and they'll figure out how to pay for it later," Mallet said.
He added in a statement: "Public sector earnings have been allowed to drift well above market-tested norms, and cash-strapped governments are looking for ways to invest in infrastructure and other priorities. Closing the gap is not just what's fair, it's what is needed."