It’s been more than twenty years since Canada Post’s bosses set out to undermine the service — a public service that for most people in Canada is much valued and loved. Mike Palecek, a former letter carrier and former national president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), recalls that although he was proud […]
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The public post office has been set up to fail. Its high-paid executives have mismanaged it, provoking a labour dispute and spending $470 million on an unnecessary new high-tech processing facility in Scarborough, Ontario. Successive federal governments have encumbered it with various restrictions and mandates, forcing it to compete with multinational corporations like Amazon. They […]
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The Liberal government has ended the strike of 55,000 postal workers with an underhand use of an obscure clause, Section 107, of The Canada Labour Code. They used the same tactics to attack rail and port workers. In all three cases the bosses made unreasonable demands, attacking working conditions and jobs and then refusing to […]
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