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Preparations are being made for a possible postal strike as early as May 24, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers says.
The union said in a statement Wednesday that it and Canada Post remain far apart on many issues, including wages for new employees and a proposed sick plan that it says is inferior. Negotiations are still ongoing, however.
The union will be able to exercise its right to strike and Canada Post its right to lock out at midnight on May 24. Both sides have to give three days notice of their intention to strike or lockout. The collective agreement expired on Jan. 31.
Cheques for pensioners and social assistance recipients will still be delivered regardless, the union said.
Volunteers from the union will deliver federal Canada Pension Plan, Old Age Security and child benefits cheques, as well as provincial social assistance cheques in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
The B.C. government has said it will mail out income assistance cheques one week early on May 18 rather than May 25 to ensure they arrive.
I know this seems trivial to a lot of people. But this is a REAL bitch for a lot of us in Small Business.
Many companies can not receive electronic payments. Many customers can not receive faxed statements. Many of us actually really heavily rely on the post.
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You sir have no idea what you are talking about....
Also, YOU'RE a fucking Moron.
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would it be as bad as Translink or CoV waste collections strike?
No where near as bad. It'll affect some small businesses and people that rely on gov't assistant cheques.
Personally it won't affect me at all, I get all my statements electronically now, payments by direct deposit/wires, for filming we use private couriers to send dailies between studios and at the brokerage firm the majority of our clients have opted for electronic delivery of statements and confirms now.
No where near as bad. It'll affect some small businesses and people that rely on gov't assistant cheques.
Personally it won't affect me at all, I get all my statements electronically now, payments by direct deposit/wires, for filming we use private couriers to send dailies between studios and at the brokerage firm the majority of our clients have opted for electronic delivery of statements and confirms now.
same with our company....we use private couriers for all of our mail. Easily tracked. Can't trust canada post with sensitive material.
btw, DHL got bought out a week ago....
If canada post goes on strike, the only thing that would affect me is my samples from PG....
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"Just because any car nut can tell you every possible performance specification of a Ferrari doesn't mean he can drive. Most of these people live in places where they've never even seen a Ferrari, much less ever owned one themselves."
I wouldn't say that this strike is trivial because it doesn't affect you personally. It affects a crazy amount of buisnesses/people and it will create a giant backlog.
Yeah. I'll go from spending 3 - 5 days a month dealing with receivables to probably closer to 10 if I have to individually notify everyone, given our system is not set up to deal with email. So all of that will have to be done manually.
I'm not a fan of this at all.
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I know this is bad, especially having this mentality..
But, the first thing I thought about was a further delay of my Stella stuff that I ordered
On another note, I always figured the postal workers get paid pretty well. Especially for doing such a simple task especially when they don't need any education. My friend worked for Canada Post two summers ago and got paid $16.XX starting for working in the post office.
i work for canada post as a letter carrier. the biggest issues seems to be that canada post wants to roll back alot of things for new workers getting their fulltime status after this contract is signed. their wages, benefits etc will be signifcantly be less then mine (i'm already a fulltime worker) so this will eventually cause a division within the work force and the union. it happened to safeway years ago and we don't want that to happen to us. i heard this will get ugly as we are miles apart regarding a new contract
i work for canada post as a letter carrier. the biggest issues seems to be that canada post wants to roll back alot of things for new workers getting their fulltime status after this contract is signed. their wages, benefits etc will be signifcantly be less then mine (i'm already a fulltime worker) so this will eventually cause a division within the work force and the union. it happened to safeway years ago and we don't want that to happen to us. i heard this will get ugly as we are miles apart regarding a new contract
Sorry for my ignorance, but how does this cause a division between you guys?
Sorry for my ignorance, but how does this cause a division between you guys?
And what happened with Safeway?
They are basically hiring new employee's which are not part of the union so they don't have to pay them as much and don't get the same benefits. They are trying to phase out the union in the long run that's what it's about.
They are basically hiring new employee's which are not part of the union so they don't have to pay them as much and don't get the same benefits. They are trying to phase out the union in the long run that's what it's about.
ohhhh, I get it.
it's a sneaky little plot to get rid of the union.
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