More than 55,000 Canada Post workers went on strike on Friday, and it appears the organization and the postal workers union remain far apart.
The job action has resulted in mail and parcel services being halted across Canada and comes at a pivotal time for so many.
Global’s Shallima Maharaj reports on the raised concerns the strike is raising.
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A proper prime minister would fire all of them and hire new people.
Canada post is selfish and ignorant. They make great money, have no business going on strike. They have completely screwed me over
If you think the issue is the regular CP worker causing this strike, you are sadly mistaken. CP has been mismanaged from the top for almost a decade. Stop blaming the average worker.
Charities are wasting money if they are mailing their donrs. Seriously, Sasktel rarely sends out bills by mail. If you have an email, your bill is coming by email, whether you want it that way or not.
I signed up for e-cards yesterday. $30/yr unlimited sending via email. I'll save about $500./yr in NOT mailing cards through Canada Post. 🤣
Let’s have a moment of silence for the home 🏠 movers that lift couches and boxes down stairs into box trucks that get paid less than these letter carriers.. movers that risk actual injury with no benefits .. Canada post should be a minimum wage job . Period
Oh no! How will I cope when I don't multiple flyers, that go straight to the recycling bin.
The operation for courier as Canada Post ( government delivery organization ), basically involve 3 parts , the superior is Civic/customer , then the lower parties,Company and Worker union .
If the strike as 2018 , rotation strike , the civic / customer affection were small , so we don’t care the strike .
But the strike in this time , these two lower parties compete for own
gain profit to hurt and sacrifice the superior part, civic/customer .
So we must fire the Canada Post Company and worker union .
All customers and civics who have parcels are processing in the facility of Canada post make “class action” to lawsuit Canada Post for missing delivery promise
Sucks not to get the regular mail but, Canada Post is trash anyways, losing packages, taking ages to deliver things… countless times i paid for fast-shipping on items only for canada post to do it at their normal molasses pace
……This is a company where the management give themselves a Bonus every year for losing $ 3 Billion in the last six years and another half a billion this year. Not the workers fault. Bad management. The workers are trying to catch up on their wages. When Stephen Harper was prime minister he froze the wages for 10 years and took away some of the benefits.
And despite stealing from their workers paychecks they are still losing money. I also heard they wasted millions on electric vehicles that can only be used to deliver letters and not parcels. How stupid is that ? A few years ago they bought all these giant size wide step vans that will not fit the roads in the downtown areas of Toronto. Millions more of taxpayer's money wasted. It is the management's fault they are losing all this money. They just do not know what they are doing.
If I owned Canada Post I would Fire All the Management for losing Billions of dollars of taxpayer's money. These are the last people who deserve a Bonus. And I would never hire them. As Dumb as Dumb gets. You do not give a Bonus to Reward Failure. It is so obvious they do not know what they are doing. Very Poorly Managed…….
The operation for courier as Canada Post ( government official delivery organization ), basically involve 3 parts , the superior is Civics/users/customers , then the lower parties,Company and Worker union .
If the strike as 2018 , rotation strike , the civics /users/ customers' affection were small , so we don’t care the strike .
But the strike this time , these two lower parties compete for own gain profit to hurt and sacrifice the superior part, civics/users /customers .
So we must fire the Canada Post Company and worker union .
If you don't take action to invlove immediately , All customers ,users and civics who have parcels are processing in the facility of Canada post will access “class action” to lawsuit Canada Post for missing delivery promise
The Canada Post should complete the delivery of all paid shipments!!
Service paid or refund the postal cost. This is unfair to your customers!!
I know there is purolator, FedEx etc but Canada needs a new postal competitor to Canada Post. Rates are too high already it’s shocking. Legal papers 6 pages fit in a regular size envelope not a Canada post packette. It was stamped, put into system fir shipping. Fully pre paid for service. They are time sensitive. Canada post is greedy. They get paid decent salary. They have truckers, little electric vehicles, tons of benefits, sorting machines most the work computerized. With a country experiencing economic hard time Canada Post decides to strike. Have they any idea how many Canadians would live a job at $25. per hour?? Canada pist should deliver the mail they were paid to deliver. Fine don’t take in new assignments but complete to paid ones. If they get wage raise they will increase their shipping fees and all costs. And that hits us the consumer. We need a Canada Wide delivery system non unionized and grateful Employees. Call it Canada Sea to Sea or The New Pony Express, surely someone or some group could start a competitive service!! My stuff is stuck in the system. I do nit have option of going to the Post Office get my important letter back, get refunded and drive to deliver my legals. My mail is held for ransom. This is not how to treat paying customers. Canada Post has gotten too big for their britches while the rest of the country is hungry, jobless, going broke.
People are complaining but if you worked for Canada post as a letter carrier you’d be doing the same thing lol
Please please we need government intervention!!! Many union members also want it because we know that the agreement between company and union can't be made. So it's much better to end the strike early through back-to-work order. Many union members want it but cannot express our opinion.
They need to pay severely for screwing everyone over, I guarantee you there’s thousands of people who would happily take such a fking easy job
Canada post is like block buster obsolete. You have purolator fedex ups who are making money and deliver legit parcels. Canada post you deliver bills and flyers. Btw most ppl get their bills through email.
What a joke
Mortgage is due soon and thankfully the cheques I have coming to me are stuck in the mail some place. We've all been screwed by the government so bad over the last decade that it doesn't even feel wrong anymore it feels weirdly normal.
2 months without a paycheck, Savings what? Inflation is only at 2% though according to Freeland and the 30-50% increase in producer and consumer pricing over the last 9 years is of no matter. They are saving the environment one bank account at a time.
They stopped delivering at my house a week BEFORE announcing their strike.
How do I know? My daughter's birthday packages from family members have been held hostage since a week prior to them "officially" going on strike.
Criminal charges are needed here, why aren't you talking about this?!?
Failing to deliver the service already paid for is called FRAUD.
See criminal code, Fraud 380(1)
Withholding MY property is called theft.
See criminal code Theft 322(1)
Abandonment of mail
See Canada Post Corporation Act 49.
Pretty smart of the post office to continue ending their CBA around Christmas.
A place that is dying, with 24 vice presidents , a place that CUPW prioritized social Justice vacations that should be Skype courses for members wanting vacations … maybe… just maybe… you trim the obvious fat and recognize your buisness is dying and a whopping 25% wage increase is insane…
Im in the same building for over ten years in north York, i saw the canada post men changed many ,90% just want to get out from the car standing inside of the mailbox room putting mail ,that's it .even they have your packages in inside of their car but don't want to carry to your door .then they will left a notice card in your mailbox, after a day you can get from the post office where they decide to put .i really don't understand, the package its already in your car and its right here ,but they want to carry far away to let you get it by yourself? Why ? We didn't pay you ? What kind of sick game is this ?
I have zero sympathy for the Canadian postal workers and their grievances, they are a selfish bunch ,elitists, their safety, pension, is only important to them and they are willing to destroy any business who depends on their services to survive, just so they can get what they want, every few years they pull the same stunt just before Xmas , I see poor Amazon, FedEx, UPS, delivery people in my town deliver in all hours even when it's dark but not these guys from Canada post ,they just give the bare minimum, the bottom line: If there was a way to fire them all I would vote for it without any remorse.
Bring the Chinese to deliver mail like aliexpress and albibaba 😂 theyll do it
Canada Post Corporation had a year to put a serious offer on the table, the strike and lockout could have been avoided and can be ended by them at any time. They haven't at time of writing. Instead they hope to let public inconvenience and media fed outrage be the story that gives them the best chance at union busting with binding arbitration that keep Canadian wages low. For the less Holmsian in the "con" camp, that's your wages.
The minister himself scolded the executive at Canada Post for inflexibility in the evolution of the company. Translation: wringing hands over decreasing mail volumes with no eye to expand services to compensate, like postal banking.
The gov't just snapped out nearly 3 billion to another corporation and the public didn't know anything about it until it was all over. We can fund what our own gov't acknowledges as a public service never intended to be run for profit.
Canadian postal workers stood in the breach for Canadians during Covid as essential workers when shopping at stores was difficult to impossible. They delivered, and at that time laid down their rights to collective bargaining to help their fellow Canadians weather the crisis, some laying down their lives for the effort. They've been without a renewed contract for years and nothing to combat the cost of living. These workers are Canadians, many of whom don't make enough to cover living expenses, some forced to purchase their own vehicles for delivery, having no company vehicle provided.
Canadian workers owe it to nobody to live paycheck to paycheck or worse. They deserve our support.
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.
To all people using Canada post just stop and use another carrier service period. Goodbye Canada post 😂
My passport expired, and I am not worth a movie date.