Canada Post Service Disruptions

Is there going to be a Canada Post lockout with service disruptions?

There is an excellent chance of a strike by the union or a lockout by Canada Post.

All reports indicate it will happen, but we will not know for sure until early next week.

I have made plans on the assumption it will.

The earliest date that it could happen is Sunday morning - July 3rd.

CUPW (Canadian Union of Postal Workers) posted this to their website: http://www.cupw.ca/en/cupw-presents-global-offer Please note I take no sides in this, it just seems to be the source of the latest dependable info regarding a possible service disruption. The Canada Post website displays blissful ignorance of the situation, perhaps recognizing that if they say nothing, people will still deposit their mail and buy the services, expecting they will be given without disruption.

With the CUPW action, the earliest a stoppage could now occur (legally) is July 6, though Canada Post could lock out its employees at any time. We now live by days or hours if we depend on the Canadian postal service for anything.

Thanks Peter. I hope that means there will be mail delivery on Monday and Tuesday. I have some ebay lots due to arrive any day.

Personally what CUPW says they sent is absolutely absurd in this day and age.

That is not negotiating at all. That is making ridiculous demands hoping they will get locked out so they look like the good guys.
Guess what, it is the Union that needs to live in the same world as every one else.

They are constantly abusing their supposed power and could care less about any one other than themselves.

I have nothing against unions per se, but the postal unions are absurd and always have been.

I wish CP would just shut down period and let the union workers find jobs as lucrative as they presently have. Maybe a private business will take them over and do the same job for less than the absurd union expects.

If anyone wants to come back at me, I have no problem with that at all.

The latest news suggests the two sides MAY agree to a 30 day cooling off period; hope they can at least agree on that. I purchased a P.E.I. UN #3 from an overseas dealer at a great price and was hoping it wouldn't get caught up in the shut-down but, thankfully, it arrived today. Needs to be sent to VGG for a certificate; but I will wait to see what transpires over the week-end.

With respect to the issues, I haven't studied the areas of disagreement; but I can comment on one issue, that being the demand that all new workers be allowed entry into the existing defined benefit pension plan. No-one anywhere should be entitled to this. The DB pension plans work wonderfully well for people who paid into them in past years; but, in today's competitive world, they are archaic and a huge uncertain burden on employers. Canada Post is on solid ground on this issue and the Union should give their heads a shake. At least Canada Post isn't cancelling the existing plan (which would be wrong); all they are doing is denying entry to new employees. These are conditions of employment which the employer should be entitled to make. About the wage parity issue for urban vs rural workers, not sure about this one as I don't know the facts.

NBSTAMPER, I am jealous of your PEI #3 especially if it is used.

My ebay item, a Montreal Gazette small queen cover, did arrive.

In the UK in 1925 a new kind of pension was introduced based on contributions paid at work by employer and employee. It was paid from age 65 without a means-test.

The average life expectancy of a man BORN in 1925 was about 63 !!. What it was for someone lucky enough to reach 65 after being born in 1860 I* do not know but it must have been less.

Today with the life expectancy is approaching 88. No one can afford the defined pensions that many of us have now.

AQ

BeeSee
It is a lightly cancelled copy with clean perfs. Almost too good to be true which is why I'm sending it for a cert.

NB, when you get the cert, post the stamp in the Canada thread.

Now back to the subject...