The saddest part about the labour movement under this government is they have shown time and again they will back the company over the worker with orders and legislation - all the company had to do is hold out and wait for a government mandated rescue. Shame on the NDP for backing this government.
@@vincede7530 Adapt or die. Amazon has proven 7 day delivery is required, yet the posties want full wages X 1.25 increase, and bankers hours, weekdays only.
Imagine 7 weeks vacation and 13 personal days on top of that along with every single federal holiday which not everybody gets across the country........wow.............
I've worked for a couple of unions, I would not like this guy negotiating on my behalf, Canada post needs to be restructered or it won't exist, the company should have that right
@@haydencrawford8552unions are blocking the company from restructuring, that's what this whole thing is about. Canada post wants to make parcels the focus, but that's impossible without weekends and flexibility of part timers
This guy is walking Canada Post right into complete irrelevancy and doesn't seem to know how to negotiate at all just say no. If we go past Christmas and it wasn't resolved and we survived it fine then any bargaining power Canada Post workers had is completely gone. Ontop of that, they just cost the company revenue from the busiest time of the year, this adds onto the fact that the company needs to be restructured and their jobs are now on the line even more.
So the company can negotiate than right? Works both ways mate. Workers dropped their demands and yet the company still stalled and waited for their government buddies to intervene. This squash on workers rights will only get worse and trickle down to the public sector
@@MrRbirdy17 The postal workers aren't hard done by. The unions just want more money. When it is a fully private business who cares but when it's government funded, thats a different kettle of fish.
Ok, get rid of weekends, OT pay, paid vacation, extended benefits - all brought to you by unions. Because when unions win rights, the private sector has to move to compete.
@SMac86 unions were useful at one time in the past, but current day labour standards legislation already makes the existence of unions obselete and a nuisance
@@alexanderh.999 Those current labour standards were brought to you by . . . wait for it - Unions! And without a continued voice for workers, those standards will start to deteriorate.
Canada Post is totally corrupted and no longer working for Canadians anymore, dismiss it and rebuild a new postal system either like USPS (as an essential service and low rates to boost small businesses) or like DHL (privatized)!
@@AdamsFamily-bw6tn Why not? Sell Canada Post (bundled with its billion dollar profit making Purolator) to a private company with the condition to deliver to every address in Canada. Canada Post is not efficient at all, that's why many small couriers can easily take away parcel delivery business from it and still make money.
I live in a community where only Canada post delivers parcels. I’m a senior and my grandchildren are my world and their Christmas gifts that I ordered early( which were suppose to arrive the morning the strike started) are being held hostage. I don’t have money to rebuy the gifts and I am just devastated that I don’t have anything to give my grandkids . Postal workers are the grinches that stole my Christmas and I’m sure many Canadians are in the same boat. Even if they had to go back to work next week I’m sure many won’t get their packages in time. They striked at Xmas in 2018 , maybe they should change the contract dates so that they don’t ruin Christmas ever again. They are striking themselves out of people’s support and right out of jobs
Postal workers were open to rotating strikes but it was Canada Post that made it so if they went on rotating strikes they would be working without a collective agreement, it’s not postal workers who are refusing to negotiate
These entitled workers should be ashamed of themselves. BILLIONS of dollars in lost sales for small businesses over this holiday season. How are we now to get thru the slow months of sales coming???
@@misbehave3938 The workers fell behind inflation by 9% over the last contract. And inflation is expected to be about 11% or so over the next four years (words right from Canada Post's mouth). Hence the Union's ask of around 20% (9 +11) over the next four years. But please, tell me again how informed you are.
We are all undercompensated. Unions fight for a better life and economy. Soon there won't be a middle class, and when that happens say buh bye to capitalism and the western way of life.
Have your discussions and find an agreement that is your right HOWEVER Forcing Canadians into the middle of your discussions and punishing them as part of your bargaining strategy is UNACCEPTABLE ! You can live your life and do your job or quit your job and find other work that is the right of all Canadians but unions need to stop punishing Canadians as a way to grab more and more
You know, that's called a strategic strike. The company is at least equally responsible by locking out any type of worker. The management continues to collect a paycheck while not having to do their normal duties. Meanwhile, the workers are not getting paid during Christmas and are in the cold. Who is more motivated to make a deal? It's become the standard company playbook in Canada - hold out at all costs till the government orders workers back to work.
So happy to see that this shameful CP strike is going to end, and even more happy that these shameful cp workers are going back to work with no pay raises😊
In our retirement community, Sandy Cove, Innisfil. I was speaking to the Canada Post woman who was filling the community mailbox slots. Ever since our small local newspapers disappeared that included numerous flyers, it has been the responsibility of Canada Post workers to now deliver these flyers. I questioned her about the nuisance aspect of the flyers and she advised me that it takes her between two to three hours every day to allot the flyers to each individual customer, time for which SHE IS NOT PAID and that she had no choice but to do it. Didn't seem at all fair to me so I asked her what her union was doing about it? Her reply -- they're working on it. I guess not enough since hence the strike.
@@ralex3697at whose expense??? The 55,000 employees expense. Canada Post has refused to negotiate for a year now. This is not the step the government should be taking. They should be forcing Canada Post to negotiate
@@mattduenxbrjsmthe 40 million Canadians expense, needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, the 55,000 does not have the right to put the country on hold
Tell that to the seniors depending on canada post for their pension checks to keep their power and heat on. Or the Canadians depending on canada post for their medication. Or the millions that were expecting Christmas gifts for their kids. I hope the canada post workers are replaced tomorrow and then they will realize how easy they had it.
we don't see greedy or entitled- we just see canada post workers as an irrelevant institution now... more automation, more online, more deliveries means gig work !
I mean, I do agree they are becoming irrelevant now that we finally have some reliable competition, BUT they are still entitled and greedy. Two things can be true at once.
The members don't vote until their elected bargaining committee • and • the Employers HIRED professional bargaining team --- Come to a new potential agreement/contract. That is presented to the members, then they vote yes or no.
Canada post has never negotiated a contract. Always the workers are ordered back to work and illegal legislated contracts by the government or binding arbitration is the end result for workers.
If it is a crown corporation, this is essentially the owner telling them to return. The owner normally can do what they want from what I understand it. Also, this has hurt a lot of Canadians who need welfare cheques, rebates, passports, etc
This guy is the personification of pigheaded ignorance. Him and his negotiation "team" are being unreasonable at the peril of the public and small businesses. I pray these clowns are ordered back to work, clear out the backlog of packages that I'm waiting for and I will NEVER use Canada Post again. This is NOT unconstitutional. You have had the opportunity and ability to strike and negotiate YOU are being unreasonable and destroying your customer base.
You are greedy. Every other worker in Canada does NOT het what you have. Just because you were given 10 sick days and 3 personal days does not mean it isn’t a benefit - it is. So on top of those “given” benefits you also want a 24% raise. I too have worked at my job for 28 years and I do not have 7 weeks, 10 sick days, 3 personal days and a yearly pay increase. Sir, you just don’t get it. This here is part of the divide, those who work to pay the bills and those who receive the bills. They always want more. I don’t think you understand how things work in the real world.
i'd really hate to hear it dumps snow when they get back to work, i'd hate it even more to hear they slipped off the road into the ditches, what an inconvenience that would be.....how ironic
You are a bunch of children.This is not about you. How privileged you are in the economy? We find ourselves in to think that you can hold the entire country hostage before the christmas season and strike four way above average increases in your salary and benefits. Absolutely disgusting
@AdamsFamily-bw6tn Tell that to the other 30 million who don't. Fact is they are complaining at job that offers light years more than most working class job in thos country. Its not right. And their Union is greedy and doing it's members a disservice
The saddest part about the labour movement under this government is they have shown time and again they will back the company over the worker with orders and legislation - all the company had to do is hold out and wait for a government mandated rescue. Shame on the NDP for backing this government.
Prime minister is treating all Canadians like little children LOL. Just see how he talks down to all Canadians.
Jagmeet will be upset but still vote with liberals for that pension money
He will block the liberals. He said it
He said you will
Still waiting for Jagmeet’s press release
that's what sellouts do
Millions of Canadians vs 55000 union workers I’ll stand with my fellow millions of Canadians that just want this to be over
Maybe you should stand with what is the right thing instead of the greedy selfish management.
@@vincede7530 Isn't it more greedy to shut down businesses cause you want more money?
@@vincede7530 Adapt or die. Amazon has proven 7 day delivery is required, yet the posties want full wages X 1.25 increase, and bankers hours, weekdays only.
@@thimblemunch24 22$hr starting at part time hrs 2nd most injured labour force. maybe essential service should be paid a living wage huh?
Corporate pawn groveling to the rich
This guy is so out of touch with the average Canadian worker
I think hes saying; I need to go home, my planet needs me 🤣
That guy is a whiner, not a fixer.
Why should postal workers who only need a grade 10 education get paid more than Registered Practical Nurses?!
Sounds like your jealous 10th grader
Why don't you ask your union to fight for better wages?
Try leaving your mommy’s basement
I'd rather give the nurse a 24% increase.
Well , children do need a time out now and then
If you search google , mail delivery is a right in the constitution
BZZZZZT ... privacy in mail is in the Constitution, not delivery.
Haha I want my door to door delivery back. Is that in the constitution?
considering canadians don't have a constitution you are in the wrong here looking at some other countries laws that do not pertain to this situation.
In today's world residential delivery doesn't have to be 5 days a week.
It is in theCanada post act
Imagine 7 weeks vacation and 13 personal days on top of that along with every single federal holiday which not everybody gets across the country........wow.............
Everybody else gets 3 weeks. Get your fact straight before playing with your mouth and keyboard
@walkamile5 you sound happy to get back to work LOL
You only get 7 weeks after 28 years. The 13 days are 10 federally mandated days that ALL federally regulated businesses
you know nothing. get a job
STOP saying 7 weeks! Only after 30 years!
I've worked for a couple of unions, I would not like this guy negotiating on my behalf, Canada post needs to be restructered or it won't exist, the company should have that right
Restructuring is the job of the management and government, not the unions.
@@haydencrawford8552unions are blocking the company from restructuring, that's what this whole thing is about. Canada post wants to make parcels the focus, but that's impossible without weekends and flexibility of part timers
This guy is walking Canada Post right into complete irrelevancy and doesn't seem to know how to negotiate at all just say no. If we go past Christmas and it wasn't resolved and we survived it fine then any bargaining power Canada Post workers had is completely gone. Ontop of that, they just cost the company revenue from the busiest time of the year, this adds onto the fact that the company needs to be restructured and their jobs are now on the line even more.
So the company can negotiate than right? Works both ways mate. Workers dropped their demands and yet the company still stalled and waited for their government buddies to intervene. This squash on workers rights will only get worse and trickle down to the public sector
@@MrRbirdy17 The postal workers aren't hard done by. The unions just want more money. When it is a fully private business who cares but when it's government funded, thats a different kettle of fish.
@@derek8564 It is NOT government funded.
increase your skill set and get another job with a higher pay like the rest of Canadian
An angry union and an unsympathetic employer.
I am against the unions. They are just ridiculous
What a fool you are
Ok, get rid of weekends, OT pay, paid vacation, extended benefits - all brought to you by unions. Because when unions win rights, the private sector has to move to compete.
@SMac86 unions were useful at one time in the past, but current day labour standards legislation already makes the existence of unions obselete and a nuisance
@@alexanderh.999 Those current labour standards were brought to you by . . . wait for it - Unions! And without a continued voice for workers, those standards will start to deteriorate.
Please tell this ignorant fool more lol
Go to work like everyone else. You are not special.
Stop making unrealistic demands and you may get something.
How unrealistic, to keeping up with the inflation?
@@vincede7530inflation is typically about 2% a year…
@@misbehave3938 Canada Post workers fell behind inflation by 9% during the last 2 years.
What was it the last 4 years? And what did postal workers get in raises in that time? Bet you don’t know
@@mcjammer16 Postal workers have received 2% raises each year for the last four years. Inflation during that time was 15%.
Canada Post is totally corrupted and no longer working for Canadians anymore, dismiss it and rebuild a new postal system either like USPS (as an essential service and low rates to boost small businesses) or like DHL (privatized)!
Cpc is no longer working for its employees
Private doesn't want to touch what Canada Post does because they are mandated to deliver to every address in Canada which is hard to turn a profit on.
@@AdamsFamily-bw6tn Why not? Sell Canada Post (bundled with its billion dollar profit making Purolator) to a private company with the condition to deliver to every address in Canada. Canada Post is not efficient at all, that's why many small couriers can easily take away parcel delivery business from it and still make money.
I live in a community where only Canada post delivers parcels. I’m a senior and my grandchildren are my world and their Christmas gifts that I ordered early( which were suppose to arrive the morning the strike started) are being held hostage. I don’t have money to rebuy the gifts and I am just devastated that I don’t have anything to give my grandkids . Postal workers are the grinches that stole my Christmas and I’m sure many Canadians are in the same boat. Even if they had to go back to work next week I’m sure many won’t get their packages in time. They striked at Xmas in 2018 , maybe they should change the contract dates so that they don’t ruin Christmas ever again. They are striking themselves out of people’s support and right out of jobs
Postal workers were open to rotating strikes but it was Canada Post that made it so if they went on rotating strikes they would be working without a collective agreement, it’s not postal workers who are refusing to negotiate
These entitled workers should be ashamed of themselves. BILLIONS of dollars in lost sales for small businesses over this holiday season. How are we now to get thru the slow months of sales coming???
Real entitled to simply want a wage increase in line with inflation.
@@AdamsFamily-bw6tn inflation is about 8% over the 4 years. They asked for TRIPLE that amount.
@@misbehave3938 The workers fell behind inflation by 9% over the last contract. And inflation is expected to be about 11% or so over the next four years (words right from Canada Post's mouth). Hence the Union's ask of around 20% (9 +11) over the next four years. But please, tell me again how informed you are.
Guys - this is not the workers. It is 2 groups of beaurocrats duking it out.
Your charter rights? What about our rights? You are illegally holding other peoples property
Is it illegal to strike? Asking for a friend
You don’t deserve 19% over 4 years, you are over compensated already.
Apply for the job and let's see how long you last. There is an 80% turnover rate. New hires keep quitting. You will be included in that percentage.
@@JR-os6qd How can there be such a high turnover rate if over 60% of Canada Post employees would recommend working for the Post Office to a friend??
@@theowoytowich9959 Perhaps because jobs are scarce.
You have no clue.
We are all undercompensated. Unions fight for a better life and economy. Soon there won't be a middle class, and when that happens say buh bye to capitalism and the western way of life.
So sick of this crap... Make delivering mail mandatory it hurts millions ,this dam union sucks
You get no sympathy from me, i work for peanuts and only get 2 weeks of vacation, what makes you entitled
Ask yourself why are you not looking for a better paying job.
Lol. Your life sucks, and you want company. Brilliant!
@AdamsFamily-bw6tn You don't speak on behalf of most Canadians going through it, you must work for Canada Post
@@is2fiftyslowfsport744 Do you not want a raise that keeps up with inflation from your employer? Or do you like eating it?
CUPW got greedy and got a reality check. tough luck.
No sympathy for you lot, get your arses back to work, the reason they don’t reply is because your offer is unrealistic
A wage increase in line with inflation is unrealistic? Mmmkay.
Have your discussions and find an agreement that is your right
HOWEVER
Forcing Canadians into the middle of your discussions and punishing them as part of your bargaining strategy is UNACCEPTABLE !
You can live your life and do your job or quit your job and find other work that is the right of all Canadians but unions need to stop punishing Canadians as a way to grab more and more
They've spent 11 months negotiating before the strike announcement.
You know, that's called a strategic strike. The company is at least equally responsible by locking out any type of worker. The management continues to collect a paycheck while not having to do their normal duties. Meanwhile, the workers are not getting paid during Christmas and are in the cold. Who is more motivated to make a deal? It's become the standard company playbook in Canada - hold out at all costs till the government orders workers back to work.
So happy to see that this shameful CP strike is going to end, and even more happy that these shameful cp workers are going back to work with no pay raises😊
In our retirement community, Sandy Cove, Innisfil. I was speaking to the Canada Post woman who was filling the community mailbox slots. Ever since our
small local newspapers disappeared that included numerous flyers, it has been the responsibility of Canada Post workers to now deliver these flyers. I questioned
her about the nuisance aspect of the flyers and she advised me that it takes her between two to three hours every day to allot the flyers to each individual
customer, time for which SHE IS NOT PAID and that she had no choice but to do it. Didn't seem at all fair to me so I asked her what her union was doing about it?
Her reply -- they're working on it. I guess not enough since hence the strike.
The working class deserves their right to bargain.
Yes but at everyone’s expense
Disgraceful
@@ralex3697 Its important to keep working class down so corporations can make more money
@@ralex3697at whose expense??? The 55,000 employees expense. Canada Post has refused to negotiate for a year now. This is not the step the government should be taking. They should be forcing Canada Post to negotiate
@@mattduenxbrjsmthe 40 million Canadians expense, needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, the 55,000 does not have the right to put the country on hold
Tell that to the seniors depending on canada post for their pension checks to keep their power and heat on. Or the Canadians depending on canada post for their medication. Or the millions that were expecting Christmas gifts for their kids.
I hope the canada post workers are replaced tomorrow and then they will realize how easy they had it.
Quick question. Does the union collect dues as flat rate or percemtage of wage? I suspect the latter.
A cleaner at the schoolboard is more qualified than a postal worker and they earn less than a postal worker.
There is no profit and lose study for weekend deliveries. I think it is a lose proposition
Does Jim know the reporters are questioning him like he's the bad guy....
Which he is the bad guy...
Both are greedy and evil. The workers are cannon fodder.
we don't see greedy or entitled- we just see canada post workers as an irrelevant institution now... more automation, more online, more deliveries means gig work !
Those services don't deliver to smaller and rural communities.
I mean, I do agree they are becoming irrelevant now that we finally have some reliable competition, BUT they are still entitled and greedy. Two things can be true at once.
My family member who was part of the strike, said members had no vote on any of the offers made.
So, who is this Union working for?
The members don't vote until their elected bargaining committee • and • the Employers HIRED professional bargaining team --- Come to a new potential agreement/contract.
That is presented to the members, then they vote yes or no.
Canada post has never negotiated a contract. Always the workers are ordered back to work and illegal legislated contracts by the government or binding arbitration is the end result for workers.
Where’s Jon Hamilton in all of this ….
Finally...a ministry with teeth...these lazy Canada Post workers need to be forced back to work.
Shut up
I don’t go to work and I don’t get paid period! So it’s hard for me to feel for them especially as a 20 year college educated carpenter in Toronto
Let's get back to also talking about providing more services for smaller areas like banking. Postal service is a higher command in a economy
If it is a crown corporation, this is essentially the owner telling them to return. The owner normally can do what they want from what I understand it. Also, this has hurt a lot of Canadians who need welfare cheques, rebates, passports, etc
They still delivered government support cheques. Striking workers volunteered to do that. Learn about it
This guy is the personification of pigheaded ignorance. Him and his negotiation "team" are being unreasonable at the peril of the public and small businesses. I pray these clowns are ordered back to work, clear out the backlog of packages that I'm waiting for and I will NEVER use Canada Post again.
This is NOT unconstitutional. You have had the opportunity and ability to strike and negotiate YOU are being unreasonable and destroying your customer base.
Pardon me, was that oink? or oink, oink?
Apparently the national brotherhood of telegraph operators is threatening to strike in solidarity
19 percent is disappointing
Listening to this union person makes me laugh. I am so glad they are being legislated back to work, with no pay raises
Sounds like you have a sucky life and wish for others to have the same.
Tom Green?
I get between 2 & 2.5 annually. That is 6 - 7.5 over 3 yrs
The workers also tramples our right give me my package
Concrete worker required, full time.
Now business in Canada will be looking for new long-term shipping companies to use over Canada post for being so unreliable.
Get back to work
If what he says is true, the real crime is ALL federal workers are getting 10 sick days and 3 personal days. WTF are personal days???
your not happy about the pay change job when canada post need more employ they have to pay them better
That is the mentality of racing to the bottom.
You are greedy. Every other worker in Canada does NOT het what you have. Just because you were given 10 sick days and 3 personal days does not mean it isn’t a benefit - it is. So on top of those “given” benefits you also want a 24% raise. I too have worked at my job for 28 years and I do not have 7 weeks, 10 sick days, 3 personal days and a yearly pay increase. Sir, you just don’t get it. This here is part of the divide, those who work to pay the bills and those who receive the bills. They always want more. I don’t think you understand how things work in the real world.
Enough already...go back to work... no sympathy
I am 62 years old and every mail strick I have seen is just before Christmas just to try and hold the mail hostage and get their way.
Get back to work!
This guy is a drama queen and gas lighter.
Just a couple days ago, he said Canada Post was going backwards in their negotiations. He’s singing a totally different tune now.
Go back to work!
workers will be happy to make some income over xmas
The union went from outrageous to ridiculous. Big gap closed. 🤦
Maybe give back a few weeks vacation and some personal days .. way too
Much in a losing enterprise
This news pundit is very unlikable lol
support unions or be a serf.
He looks refreshed after his nap. I think he looks happier now too, because he has a way out now, and wants to get back to work and get paid
i'd really hate to hear it dumps snow when they get back to work, i'd hate it even more to hear they slipped off the road into the ditches, what an inconvenience that would be.....how ironic
Où est ?
is that you can type, same thing every time
Mr. JIM... how about you dont get compensated when everyone is striking.
Even your workers want to go back to work, just do it and continue negotiating its really that simple
It's not simple, when the corporation refuses to negotiate
Where’s Jagmeet?
You are a bunch of children.This is not about you. How privileged you are in the economy? We find ourselves in to think that you can hold the entire country hostage before the christmas season and strike four way above average increases in your salary and benefits.
Absolutely disgusting
Preach! Imagine a worker asking for a wage increase in line with inflation. Ridiculous!
@AdamsFamily-bw6tn Tell that to the other 30 million who don't. Fact is they are complaining at job that offers light years more than most working class job in thos country.
Its not right. And their Union is greedy and doing it's members a disservice
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