Probably the first article in a while that clearly outlines WHERE the negations are at and what each side wants.
I’m pretty reliant on Canada Post so I’d really like them to pay the workers what they’re owed.
I’m pretty reliant on Canada Post so I’d really like them to pay the workers what they’re owed.
OK but what is the difference between OWED and WANT? I was looking at listings for Canada post positions and they apparently already made living wages in most markets AND have pensions on top of that?
Without all the numbers it is speculation.
However Canada post is NOT tax payer funded it is a for profit entity that has been in a death spiral for quite some time not dealing or not being allowed to become more efficient while mail volume keeps dropping.
Looks like they want more part time and full time positions to be hired on, plus raises to keep up with inflation.
To me, being a mailman is a hard job that requires a lot of physical and mental labour, it should be very well paid
No they want to have fewer part time, more full time and all new staff to have pensions.
To me, being a mailman is a hard job that requires a lot of physical and mental labour
It may be physically demanding but not a particularly skilled one… You have routes, you learn them you haul your load every day. Kind of like a bus driver, warehouse picker or even a retail staffer… This should be an entry level job geared to the young and able part time that you move on from later… Not a life long career with a pension.
I don’t want some idiot losing my package. I like Canada posts because it rarely fucks up my delivery - today i have to go far, far out of my way to pick up a purolater package containing medication because the purolater delivery person’s brain turns to mush whenever they need to deliver a package to an apartment building.
The Canada Post delivery person who usually delivers to my area has never had that problem, he and he alone apparently has the ability to make it to the 2nd floor where my apartment is located. FedEx/Puralater/UPS have never succeeded when tasked with the same thing, i always end up having to go to a depot across town to pick it up myself with them.
I have had Canada post delivery issues as well, particularly in the past they would just dash a pickup notice to my door INSTEAD of knocking or ringing a door bell for packages… I was CONSTANTLY going to the post office to pick things up that I WAS home for and could have received if they had rang the door bell or knocked even. It really comes down to the individual.
Everyone should be paid fairly but from the info so far I am not convinced the union demands are resonable in this case other than maybe the mat leave request.
That’s like saying a chef job isn’t particularly skilled because we can describe it in 9 words.
Psst: suggesting working-class jobs aren’t real jobs is how they keep your wages low.
Chef requires essentially apprenticeship and repeated effort to become proficient at over a significant amount of time at that. Cook at a fast food place with a prescribed method of prep? Low skill but requires a small amount of time for a TEEN to become proficient at.
There are MANY jobs that do not require much skill, that I held in the past in my teens. Sure you suck at them for the first week or so but your skill in them often tops out fast as they are NOT really difficult to learn or train IE ideal for part time.
Retail SUCKs because of the people, but is NOT a “technically hard” to learn job.
Many jobs are PHYSICALLY difficult but NOT HARD TO LEARN.
Question do you think the following positions should all get the same pay have the same skill? Which require a greater investment in knowledge or training?
- Chef
- Line Cook
- Dishwasher
- Server
- Busser
- Bartender
I just don’t personally think mail delivery is anything but a part time level skill job.
Average Canada Post Mail Carrier hourly pay in Ontario is approximately $23.55, which is 7% above the national average.
As of December 1, 2024, the average annual pay for an elementary teacher in Ontario is $41,226, or about $19.82 per hour.
What board pays elementary teachers that low? Most start as A3s and make around 60K with 0 years experience (I looked at York and Ottawa-Carleton). In 3 years, they can take a few AQs, hit A4 and be making north of 80K. The average teacher in Ontario probably has a lot more than 3 years in and makes closer to 100K, and that would still not be accounting for any specializations that would provide a bonus for some. Your numbers look more like starting pay for QECO category A (teachers with no undergrad degree) from 10 years ago.
To me, being a mailman is a hard job that requires a lot of physical and mental labour, it should be very well paid
This is pure cope.
It’s physics: Our feet weren’t evolved to last 40 years of all-day use. The job, as I understand, is a little more involved than a dude scanning labels and house numbers.
Even your nounification of ‘cope’ suggests you will only understand this decades from now.
I think you need to go back to school humans are the APEX of endurance animals for walking on this planet. It is 100% within the physical norms of a human to walk all day… The romans marched almost halfway across the world on foot.
Edit:
Canada post workers walk between 17-22km a day and carry up to 30 pounds of mail https://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31576&catid=9845&lang=en#%3A~%3Atext=Letter+carriers+perform+physically+demanding%2Cno+walk+in+the+park.
It sounds like a lot until you track activities of active people it is well within reason. A typical warehouse worker in a large warehouse will do similar however it is indoors.
Someone doing recreational back country hiking will also carry that much are walk further.
YES physically demanding but not really extreme for a human.
did you just bring up some nonsensical point to exploit workers? how’s that boot taste?
Buzzword buzzword buzzward no need to process thoughts just use buzzword
However Canada post is NOT tax payer funded it is a for profit entity that has been in a death spiral for quite some time not dealing or not being allowed to become more efficient while mail volume keeps dropping.
We keep treating essential services like they need to make a profit.
Mail service to Edmonton seems a little redundant, but mail service to Tuk or even hay river may not feel so “extra”.
I get why they spun it out to an arms-length thing (like the CBC, independent) but it’s entirely vulnerable now to funding cuts when the likes of Milhouse get into power. It was a bad idea to close the books.
I generally agree, but also governments often don’t run services very efficiently
The second a public service is privatized, the quality of the service drops, the fees raise and the only efficient thing is how to drain the customer dry.
This is the fucking neoliberal lie that the market is always more efficient than public entity. It’s only true if we look at the profits made. Otherwise, everything else gets worse.
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“I think what we’re seeing now is that there are probably internal negotiations in the union to determine how to move forward,” said Stephanie Ross, a labour studies professor at McMaster University.
That kind of dramatic restructuring makes it far harder to see a clear path to a settlement than if it were only money dividing the two sides, Ross said. “It’s hard to split the difference when you’re talking about expanding the presence of casual and part-time labour.”
The federal government has thus far said it won’t invoke Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code and apply to the Canadian Industrial Relations Board for binding arbitration to end the strike, but that prospect could push both sides back to the table, said Larry Savage, a labour relations professor at Brock University.
The federal government involvement should be properly discussing the future of Canada Post. We’re seeing the results of a 11 billion dollar entity stuck in limbo for much longer than it should and the government needs to decide if they want to shrink or expand it’s operations.
I considered going back to using mail to send messages to my family instead of calling or texting them, as i am a very privacy centric person. After seeing how this strike has been handled, i don’t know if i can rely on the service.
I think everyone should be paid a lot higher than they are, inflation has been brutal and wages have been relatively stagnant for a long time, but I’m getting really exhausted of this Canada Post strike. They’re far and above the best paid unskilled workers, with pensions to boot. I don’t want to advocate for a race to the bottom, but when so many people right now are desperate for any work and slave away at shit jobs for minimum wage, the optics of Canada Post strikers screwing people out of passports and gifts during the holidays is just exhausting.
Eliminate the union.
