STRIKES! Longshoremen, posties, and other unions strikes mega-thread

[ExtraSlow]

Sounds like Canada Post will be striking just in time for Christmas. And there's been port strikes, rail strikes and other stuff.

Lotsa striking. Probably worth chatting about.

[ExtraSlow]

Nov 15 (Reuters) - About 55,000 Canada Post workers went on strike Friday after their union said it had failed to reach a pay deal with the postal operator in the run-up to the holiday season.
The union is demanding, among other things, wage increases in line with inflation, cost-of-living adjustment payments to be rolled into the basic wage rate, and safe working conditions.
The union had issued a three-day strike notice to Canada Post earlier this week.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...on-2024-11-15/

[Ca_Silvia13]

I heard on the news that CP lost 450 million last year and since 2019 have lost 3 billion dollars. Why the union feels they need to get more blood from that stone I'm not sure they know how businesses run. Unions are dumb

[ExtraSlow]

If you think company revenue or profit even enters thier thought process then you have no idea how unions work.

[killramos]

Fire them all.

Who needs mail

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Sounds like Canada Post will be striking just in time for Christmas. And there's been port strikes, rail strikes and other stuff.

Lotsa striking. Probably worth chatting about.

This is a beautiful sign of our decline development after 9 wholesome years of decaying blossoming into a State-run Facility Socialist Utopia.
To not see that is to be a MAGA hardliner, you fucking Fascist!

[phreezee]

Nurses too

[ExtraSlow]

The feds have been very interventionist in recent strikes, which I think favours the unions. I'm betting they intervene before December 1st.

[AndyL]

So much for stocking up the e-store for christmas. I mean clearly in transit 3+ months before isn't adequate to get stuff here (cbsa clearance has been ridiculously slow since august). Doubled down with a pallet coming ltl sea freight - should have been here 2 weeks ago, now projecting to be january 2025.

Love it.

[tirebob]

Probably see the writing on the wall and are shooting for as much as they can grab before the government flips away from the NDP/Lib circlejerk.

[jutes]

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Nurses too

No nurses in hospitals. lol. That should be good.

[D'z Nutz]

Oh no! Who's going to leave pick up notices for people to get their own packages that postal workers were too lazy to deliver themselves?!

[mr2mike]

What happened to the old fashioned, disgruntled postie who would shoot up mail sorting rooms? Don't ruin everyone's Xmas.

[JRSC00LUDE]

Ahhh Unions, the greatest cancer on the world outside of religion, government and union workers in general.

[mr2mike]

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Who needs mail

You're looking for the 4B MEGA thread I think.

[ZenOps]

The cheques are in the mail.

[corsvette]

Of course. My truck got written off and ICBC was poised to send the cheque late this week/early next. Guess we wait lol.

[rage2]

This is a good read on why CP losing money to its biggest competitor Amazon, who used to be their biggest customer.

https://canadiandimension.com/articl...of-canada-post

Amazon is lean, and uses CP for rural where they can’t compete. Anti union, cheap foreign labor, can’t touch them for urban deliveries.

[killramos]

An interesting social experiment would have been if the media didn’t report on the strike, how long it would have taken me to notice Canada post not existing

[88CRX]

Canada Post.... never heard of them.