Summary
Over 50,000 Canada Post workers have entered the fifth day of a nationwide strike over pay and job security, halting mail delivery across the country ahead of the holiday season.
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers is demanding a 24% wage increase over four years, while Canada Post has offered 11.5%, citing financial losses of C$3 billion since 2016.
The strike has disrupted delivery of mail, passports, and holiday orders, with the government appointing a mediator to resolve the deadlock.
Canada Post warns lasting service disruptions are likely even after the strike ends.
The problem is when people say “financial losses” about services. Canada Post goes everywhere and is a service in our country. Much like healthcare and education. No one says “education profits are at an all time low and our hospitals have losses in the billions” because they are public services. These are things that as taxpayers, we value and use to make us a society
Canada Post is not fucking FedEx or UPS and shouldn’t be held in the same regard as it.
(this is not saying that they couldn’t be more efficient though, to this I have no comment that isn’t likely uninformed).