'Nobody wants this': South Okanagan Canada Post unionized workers frustrated with corporate offer - Penticton News
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As an almost-inevitable strike looms, local unionized Canada Post workers in the South Okanagan want the community to know that they are frustrated too, and feeling boxed into a corner.

They’re trying to force the workers to strike so they can make their case to the government that the strike is disrupting an essential service and demand that they force the union to accept the terms. Literally the same thing happened a year ago: Postal workers make demands and are willing to negotiate, Canada Post completely refuses to negotiate and locks out the workers, workers strike, postal traffic in Canada grinds to a halt, millions of people and businesses are impacted, Canadian government cites the post office as an “essential service” and uses that to force the union and employer into arbitration even though the employer was the belligerent one and didn’t even attempt to negotiate in the first place.

Also, news outlets scapegoated the union for all the delayed mail the last time they went on strike. “How could they do this to Canada? Can’t they just accept working like slaves? It’s an essential service after all, that means we get to exploit the people doing the job as much as we want and if they strike they’re the problem!” No mention of what the union’s actual demands were or how the post office itself acted.

Also also, Canada Post is NOT tax funded. It’s a government institution that is set up like a normal corporation, but with the government as the shareholder. If that’s not an ass backwards way of providing an essential service I don’t know what is. Literally the worst of both worlds between private and public ownership.

  • Nik282000
    29·
    2 days ago

    It’s hilarious how anti-labour most Canadians are, whenever the teachers, nurses, postal workers, [any public service workers] go on strike, people lose there minds about the greedy workers. All of us, are closer to being homeless and dying on the street than we are to being one of the parasites that get rich of the work of others.

    • 60dEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Hear, hear!

      Pounds desk

    • KichaeEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      It’s because most of us have been abused by employers, teachers, and the system as a whole, and our only model for what an employer-employee relationship is is one where the employee has zero power and does what they’re told. This, in turn, means most of us would be awful, toxic bosses, and that comes out whenever we, collectively, are the employer.

      I remember when the bus drivers went on strike here, like a decade ago now, or more. The radio call-in shows were swamped with people complaining that they don’t get any of the things the union was demanding. Rather than wondering why, or unionizing and striking to demand such things, they just kept telling the bus drivers to get fucked.

      We’re a society of crabs in buckets.

    • AlexLost@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 day ago

      No you are wrong, but the squeaky wheels get all the grease because news media is controlled by those who sign the paychecks, not the workers. Plenty of working class people are behind the rights of the workers to stand up for what they feel they deserve, but we don’t get any air time?!