Canada Post strike: Union president addresses public's concerns about their mail

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Canada Post workers remained on strike for the third day. It first began on Friday, with over 55,000 employees joining the picket lines.

Speaking to Global News, the organization’s national union president addressed the concerns of small business owners and charities — who are reliant on postal services.

Amandalina Letterio has more.

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33 thoughts on “Canada Post strike: Union president addresses public's concerns about their mail”

  1. Canada Post is dying because it is no loner competitive. Canada Post keeps talking about diversify itself to offer other services. Postal rates keeps going up. Sending parcels within Canada are ridiculously high when compared sending the same sized and weight parcels to the USA. As a rural resident who has dealt with the same rural post office for 35 years, I can't tell you how great the workers are there. They don't want to be on strike. It's ridiculous that Canada Post has allowed this negotiation to go a whole year and they take a pay hike while not wanting to give a pay raise to workers. Canada Post….maybe it is time to put it out of itself to bed because it obviously isn't looking out for Canadians who depend on its service.

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  4. Provide a better offer to the union employees instead of expending money paying corrupted directors managers and above who violates the Canadian Human rights and the collective agreement abusing power, expending more money in corrupted lawyers to protect these corrupted people, who falsifies documentation to violate human rights. so corrupted so criminal. Get rid of the corruption, come back with a better offer.

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  5. Good job, Union. You forced me to finally spend the day learning to use Chit Chats to bypass Canada Post for my small business. I'm just a little guy but I spend 10k a year on postage and I'll be strongly encouraging other Canadian sellers to use alternative shipping now that I've seen it isn't that complicated to be free from Canada Post's constant rate hikes and union strikes.

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  15. I only receive my mail on Wednesdays and Fridays because I'm rural. Maybe that should be the norm. Fire the CEO. Do you even need one for CP? Lay off half the workers. Make all parcels pick up only at the Post Office. Don't even try to deliver them anymore. Forget about the cards notifying you of the box. Email and text that. The elderly can get some help with that just like they did with technology problems during Covid. It's a dying business with useless board members. If this Union wanted our support they could have waited to have this strike in January. Everyone knows that Christmas is the busiest time of year for businesses. Rural businesses have no other choice than CP. I'm looking into other options. If I find them I'm never going back to CP. I barely break even as it is because of the carbon tax.

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  16. I need Canada Post ONLY for renewing Drivers License/health card and 'sometimes' products from small business owners. Now I feel CP is unreliable as 300 dollars worth of my holiday items/dresses are getting delayed by CP. So, sorry to Small business owners who rely on CP and good bye to CP. Hereafter, I need you only once in 5 years. And I don't care whether you go for strike or even you all get laid off.

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  18. It's the same old story: the people at the top keep all of the money.

    Canada Post pays $357 million to management. Management doesn't work with mail. There is a $450 K CEO, 15 VPs who make $300 K, 13 people on a board who make $125 K, 71 GMs who make $270 K, 316 Directors who make $125 K.

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  21. Has anyone in the private sector received an 11.5% wage increase over the past three years?

    Would an 11.5% raise in the private sector be considered unacceptable?

    This is a low-skilled, low-education job, yet every three years, workers go on strike demanding more than what many skilled workers in the private sector earn.

    Is Canada post being managed properly? No. Should management be replaced? Probably. Are the employees part of the problem? Absolutely. It's time to address the institution as a whole, from top to bottom.

    Canada post is losing money from the top down because of management, workers, costs, customer service, reliability, effectiveness. This entire organization from the top down is made up of entitled workers, who offer no customer service and a constant headache to Average Canadians.

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  22. I am a Postal Worker and would like to address some comments. #1 We are sorry your mail has been interrupted. #2 Our job has become unsafe with the levels of physical work expected each day. The average person cannot walk 25-30 km on a daily basis in a safe manner. This is why people get such bad service. People physically cannot do the job as expected. So they cut corners. #4 Most of our revenue gets eaten away by people on short-term disability from physical/mental injuries or stress leave. Yet our routes are about to get bigger yet again, which will cause more injuries and more people on stress leave. #5 Our work environment with management is very toxic. It's like being in a toxic relationship that you can't leave. Blamed for injuries. Blamed if you physically cant complete your job. #6 We just bought an innumerable amount of $135k vehicles that we don't need. Also a new plant. So when it comes to spending Canada Post always has money for the most extravagant expenditures. We also have 14 vice presidents and 8 'executive leaders' who apparently all get bonuses. Management on a local level is also bloated. We also purchase carbon offsets so we can state we are carbon neutral #7. Our start pay has decreased $5. Money we get paid for flyers decreased about 35%. With work load becoming bigger.

    If you want no flyers just stick a sticker/note on your box and you won't receive them.

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  24. Union is very demonic. They will be driving the profitable business down to hell. Who is gonna over pay Canada Post service when others' pricing becoming very competitive? The business operation of Canada Post has been lousy and dumb.

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  26. I want all my package that I've paid for …..this is not right I want my daughter's birthday present which she had a birthday without any presents from me her MOTHER AND SHE HAD A ROUGHT YEAR THANKS FOR NOTHING I WANT TO BE ABLE TO GET MY PACKAGE THATS ALOT OF MONEY YOUR HOLDING MY STUFF HOSTAGES IF I WOULD'VE KNOWN I WOULD I HAVE BOUGHT AMAZON I'm done with post Canada

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  27. they have a massive deficit what do they expect, if you want a strong pension, same as the LCBO workers, get an education, the idea of people doing menial jobs and wanting the world is wild

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  31. I hope they have fun picketing there way to the food bank when they shut them down. Your already better off than most non government employees and canada post is going under while you beg for more. You'll get yours…. Enjoy welfare

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