What's up with all the strikes lately?

petros

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Without going into historical details, YES, I was asked to come here. And, once again, just for your edification - knowing fully well that it is a wasted effort - I did my share of work and I provided my contribution to Canada on my own merit, without union thugs to pretend to speak for me, while stuffing their own pockets.
No you weren't. Do Not try to B U L L S H I T me or the rest of the people here.
 

YukonJack

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Re: Canada Post on Strike ????

Who do you think owns CanadaPost?

I know where you are going with that, but based on the way 'ownership' in government works, I would prefer to have no part of it.

Holy **** you're dumber than a bag of hammers. UPS is Teamsters and FED-Ex is Railway Union. Now how will you get you packages delivered without a union driver? UPS UNION, FEDEX UNION, USPS Union, CanadaPost UNION....

I have no problem with unions that have a valid competition. I DO have problem with unions where the competition, in other words, the VICTIM is the public.

So, I have no problem with union drivers at UPS and FEDEX compete.

In fact, I would encourage them to merge. Then they could reflect the mood of the victimized public, which was trained and accustomed to be victimized by Canada Post: FEDUPS.
 

petros

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Re: Canada Post on Strike ????

So you are willling to give away everything that supports you? Why do you live in Socialist MB? Do you think a private company would sell you electricity for 7.533 cents per KWh like publicly owned Manitoba Hydro? Would you rather pay 15 cent per KWh like those out east? How much does MB Hydro buck back into the economy to lower you taxes?

They sell you the cheapest power in Nor Am , they are a publicly owned and operated by union employees.

How can they do that YukonJack?
 

YukonJack

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So you are willling to give away everything that supports you? Why do you live in Socialist MB? Do you think a private company would sell you electricity for 7.533 cents per KWh like publicly owned Manitoba Hydro? Would you rather pay 15 cent per KWh like those out east? How much does MB Hydro buck back into the economy to lower you taxes?

Since I am a CANADIAN first, I really don't care which province I live in. I made myself into a success story (with the help of my CANADIAN wife) not to care where I live and worry about the cost of Hydro. I think I mentioned this before, but in case you missed it, we moved to Manitoba, because our daughter found a job as a nurse and then the love of her life in Manitoba, and when she informed us that our first grandchild is on the way we realized that there was nothing to keep us in Ontario, so we moved here. Cost of Hydro or cost of car insurance or cost or quality of health care had NOTHING to do with our move here.

Having said that, I am happy to live here, just as I was happy to live in Ontario. Perhaps because I am not and never was a union-bound and union-slaved discontent.
 

B00Mer

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Holy **** you're dumber than a bag of hammers. UPS is Teamsters and FED-Ex is Railway Union. Now how will you get you packages delivered without a union driver? UPS UNION, FEDEX UNION, USPS Union, CanadaPost UNION....

Say you fu.king troll, you're losing the battle when you start insulting people. I didn't toss insults at you, I don't expect it from you.

It's not appreciated and you don't know me as a person.

Who cares if UPS is union, I am not agruing if Unions are good or bad, I'm saying that Canada Post is slowly becoming an obsolete service as advances in technology continue and should not be government owned.
 

Colpy

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I think the back-to-work legislation is ridiculous and vicious.........as it forces a wage on the workers that is LESS than the last wage offered by the company.

Completely outrageous.
 

YukonJack

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No you weren't. Do Not try to B U L L S H I T me or the rest of the people here.

No B U L L S H I T, petros. When I was in the refugee camp in Austria, waiting for immigration to the United States, I and many other of my fellow refugees were approached (through an interpreter) by Canadian Immigration official to come to Canada. The choice was Canada or a few years in a camp.
Something tells me YOU would have chosen the latter.

I did choose Canada, and I have no regrets, proud to be Canadian, except when I run into pseudo-patriots who have no idea what they are talking about or when they tell me to go back where I came from. Most of the time not so politely.

If I'm paying for you and the bulk of the population is pension due, who is going to be there to pay for me? Will they have to pay $15,000 a year or 20% of their earnings?

Based on this rambling, you are probably of the age of the generation that made abortion a heroic act, being too blind to see that you are cutting/killing your own future.

If you have no pension when the time comes, serves you right.
 

cranky

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WTF? They only want about $1.20 an hr.

Is it just me or has everyone elses expenses gone up by at least $10 a day too?

I will second that.

I have a system where at the beginning of the month, I pay my bills, I pay into a long term savings plan, and I pay a fixed amount into my disposable cashflow bank account.......then I put the rest into a short term savings account for purchases like TV sets, etc.

Over the past year, I've seen the short term savings account dry up by more than $10 per day.
 

cranky

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Re: Canada Post on Strike ????

It was the unions greed tactics that lead the postal service towards outsourcing certain components, with any luck, this strike will generate the same results.

Maybe it's time for Canada Post to install super mail boxes for all the residential/business customers. I also understand that the sorting facilities are being upgraded with more hi-tech stuff that will whittle the union down further.

High time, I say

I love super mail boxes. When I check the mail, all of my junk mail goes down the mail slot :)
 

mentalfloss

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I think the back-to-work legislation is ridiculous and vicious.........as it forces a wage on the workers that is LESS than the last wage offered by the company.

Completely outrageous.

This is a joke post, right?
 

Corduroy

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Re: Canada Post on Strike ????

Has anyone noticed that Canada Post is on strike??

Has the strike effected you in any way??

It's effected my work because we get mail at work. Lots of it. Every day. Though it doesn't effect my department directly, it eventually gets around to us: "oh, we can't do that because such-and-such department hasn't been getting mail."

A friend of mine has been seriously effected by it. Her workplace has had to scale back hours because there isn't enough work without mailing coming in.

I think the back-to-work legislation is ridiculous and vicious.........as it forces a wage on the workers that is LESS than the last wage offered by the company.

Completely outrageous.

I agree with Comrade Colpy. The law is nothing but a tool of the capitalist class to oppress the workers. As Jack White of the International Workers of the World put it: "to hell with your courts; I know what justice is."
 

mentalfloss

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Has the strike effected you in any way??

The strike? No, the strike was fine because it was a rotating strike.

Once the corporation locked out their employees, that's when business began to take a nose dive - because we either pay for courier, or our mail is at a stand still.

Everything will be alright soon though, as the government is justly rewarding the corporation with back-to-work legislation that punishes those evil, greedy workers.

It all makes complete sense..


in..




 

mentalfloss

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"The wage rates set in the bill are only fair, they reflect what we've negotiated with federal public servants," Harper said. "The role of the Canadian government is to act in the higher interest of the Canadian population and the Canadian economy, not in the interests of those that are around the table."

Raitt open to Canada Post bill changes - Politics - CBC News



Harper thinks that proposing a wage rate that is less than what was offered by the corporation itself is "not in the interest of those that are around the table."


Is this guy serious?


No, really.. does he actually believe people are that dumb?
 

petros

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Re: Canada Post on Strike ????

3 years with no contract for my Mrs and they are talking of making her postion an essential service even though she still answers her pages when absolutely needed even if it's 2AM.

Meatwagons are same Union but they still do their calls too.

Maybe we should just privatize meatwagons. I like shopping around for the best deal when bleeding to death.
 

cranky

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Re: Canada Post on Strike ????

what about their profit margins? That means more to me as an investor than revenue
You mean the Canadian tax payers bought a chunk of eBay.

Canada Post's revenue from operations decreased from $6.1 billion in 2008 to $5.8 billion in 2009, a decrease of $268 million..
source: Canada Post - Annual Report

As more and more induviduals turn to electronic e-mail, Canada Post will have to raise rates (again). 10 years from now I seriously think there will not be a need for snail mail.

Spending tax dollars on a industry that is slowly becoming obsolete makes no sense, and as technology increases with video chat on cell phones and other devices.. Canada Post has no future.
 

petros

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No B U L L S H I T, petros. When I was in the refugee camp in Austria, waiting for immigration to the United States, I and many other of my fellow refugees were approached (through an interpreter) by Canadian Immigration official to come to Canada. The choice was Canada or a few years in a camp.
Something tells me YOU would have chosen the latter.

I did choose Canada, and I have no regrets, proud to be Canadian, except when I run into pseudo-patriots who have no idea what they are talking about or when they tell me to go back where I came from. Most of the time not so politely.



Based on this rambling, you are probably of the age of the generation that made abortion a heroic act, being too blind to see that you are cutting/killing your own future.

If you have no pension when the time comes, serves you right.
ROTFLMFAO....that's not being asked. That is being offered becuase nobody else wanted you. Holy ****** you're an idiot.