• @[email protected]
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    233 days ago

    yay, unions rights getting overridden by the government for the third time in a fucking row this year.

  • @[email protected]
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    224 days ago

    Must be nice to be Canada Post’s negotiation team. Never having to work in good faith, knowing the government would – sooner or later – force workers back on the job, and CP would never have to actually consider their demands in any way, shape, or form.

  • @[email protected]
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    154 days ago

    They weren’t even asking for that much, it’s pretty ridiculous that Canada Post leadership fought this hard to prevent people that have been there 28 years or more 2 extra weeks of vacation.

    • smokebuddy [he/him]
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      from my understanding all this does is kick the can down the road to May and Canada Post leadership is still fighting to prevent that 2 weeks of vacation

      (from 3 days ago)

      Amid the ongoing Canada Post strike, federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon announced Friday that he is asking the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to order workers back on the job if it agrees with his determination there is an “impasse” in negotiations.

      If the CIRB agrees, MacKinnon says the labour relations board would order Canada Post and all employees represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to resume operations and extend the terms of the existing collective agreements until May 2025.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 days ago

        I believe after ten years of continuous employment anyone is entitled to 4 weeks vacation so it would mean at least 6 weeks per year, but could be more since that 4 is minimum and they could have more with their current agreement.

        My mom working for the provincial government had about 8 weeks after 30 years or so before she retired.

  • Avid Amoeba
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    Curious to see if the union members would comply with this order.

    • Value SubtractedOP
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      63 days ago

      I swear, this story said something about Canada Post agreeing to a 5% intirim raise last night, but that doesn’t seem to be in there any more.

      • Avid Amoeba
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        Canada Post says it has agreed with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to implement a five per cent wage increase retroactive to the day after the collective agreements expired.

        I can still see it, but we should wait for CUPW to confirm to be sure. 🥹

  • @[email protected]
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    74 days ago

    Liberals liberallybsupport corporations, Conservative conserve corporation’s money while NDP wants to get to power an playing “hard to get”… in other words right at this moment nobody truly stands for workers rights. NDP are the closest to even begin defending workers while the other two are good at playing to fears and paying lip service to workers. We’re not where US going to be come Jan, but we’re rapidly chasing them

  • veee
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    24 days ago

    Glad to hear it. My recycling box was feeling empty without all those flyers.

    • @ikidd
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      23 days ago

      I know you’re just making a joke and getting downvoted for it, but you can call CP and ask them to put you on the no junk mail list. It works.

        • @ikidd
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          21 day ago

          Yah, just call them. It’ll take a while to take effect but the letter carrier will get a note to put on your sort box and will skip the unaddressed admail. My wife used to be an RSMC and told me about that.

      • veee
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        23 days ago

        Certainly tongue in cheek, but I didn’t notice the downvotes.

        I do reuse the grocery flyers for the odd broken glass or plate, and it’s great for arts and crafts (paper maché and painting). It does eventually make its way to the bin, but some of it gets there quicker than the rest.

        • Nik282000
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          43 days ago

          From what I understand paper spam is a huge source of revenue for Canada Post. If it’s raw paper I don’t mind, good for starting the wood oven, but glossy paper and (literally single use) plastic bags of flyers should be banned.