Question for those with magazines/periodical subscriptions (Strike related)
 

How are you gonna deal with the canada post strike?

is there a location where you can pickup mail?

www.playboy.com

:troll:

No idea about other magazine subscriptions but certain localized companies are hand delivering (my TV Guide, for instance, is send out by a special driver every week lol).

This is why unions are bullshit

I agree, and I used to part of one.

vote to get back to work, and keep on bargaining. or the posties are really the ones that are going to suffer in the end when everyone switches to other courier/delivery service.

Remember after the stanley cup riot, media actually researched on canada law and theres something like if you caused a social mess or something you can be sentenced for life? those union pple should deserve that.

For everyone here who's anti union, it was Canada Post who locked out their employees.

http://www.goderichsignalstar.com/Ar...aspx?e=3180492


So, you're equating a legal activity (striking, or being locked out) to a "social mess or something." Try being a bit more specific. Bear in mind that the government of Canada agreed to the previous contract, and that this is their mess. These employees are simply trying to make a living and you say that they deserve jail time. Real compassionate of you there.

Unions are bullies. They're a group of lawyers working for their own self interest and workers who have been convinced they're being "exploited"

The dispute is over the treatment of future employees? This is why the mail is halted? Can't this be negotiated at the next collective bargaining agreement?

This.. this is what my tax dollars are going towards?

so am i essentially S.O.L.?

well my news magazines are gonna be out of date.

I think you have it the wrong way around. Companies are bullies and unions are there to protect the employees present and future. yes the strike is to dispute wages and benefits for future employees but if the union doesn't step up to the plate now then future employees will get less pay for the same amount of work. With inflation increasing faster then wage increases how is a cut in wages fair to new and future employees.

Remember the union went on a rotating strike to minimize disruption to your mail. It was Canada Post who decided to lock out it's employees. Canada Post uses it's lock out tactic to make the public think employees are the ones to blame.

Amen.

Here's a quote I took from another Forum:

Peter worked for Wheaton Trucks in St Thomas Ontario. While working for Wheaton he made around 60K a year. Coupled with his wife’s PT job income it was enough for them to provide their three little kids with a decent standard of life.


Wheaton company left Ontario and is now in Mexico where they pay their workers the equivalent of $0.50 to $2.00 an hour, with less health and safety regulations, less benefits, les... you name it.

It seemed to be a great deal for Wheaton. Wheaton trucks riding on Canadians roads are no longer “made in Canada”, they are now “Made in Mexico”.

Peter took advantage of the EI back to school program. He attended Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. After two years he got a diploma that qualified him to work as a Developmental Service Worker.

Peter now works 3 PT jobs at three different agencies, with no benefits, no vacation, no sick leave, nothing.... He is making 40K a year.....

Peter is not his real name.... but it is a real story that happened to a good friend of mine.

“Globalization and free trade will standardize wages around the world, and no one will be able to oppose these two giants”. Milton Friedman.


"There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning." Warren Buffett

I am not an expert, I do no pretend to be one, but it doesn’t take much to see that governments, specially conservative ones, act if favour of large corporations and against workers.

Why are CEO and executive salaries and bonuses soo high, when there companies go bankrupt or lose money? Yet the average worker gets laid off, has to take wage decreases, or reduced benefits.

Honestly, the poor and middle class gets fucked. The rich have the means to help themselves.