RE:RE:Canada Post MailI'm going to be long winded here. :) I have not yet composed notes on my thoughts about what is going on with Canada Post, and I work there. I'm still trying to understand a lot of it.
What I do know...
These days, over worked is an understatment at Canada Post. Sure, sitting in cases, sorting lettermail is not so hard for the pay. However, many of the manual lettermail sorters are disabled posties or those on modified duties due to injuries. In other areas at the plants and in letter carrying, it's common to feel sore day in and out and it doesn't get reported. A lot of this can be avoided if they had proper rotation of jobs and staffing.
Years ago, overall, it was easier to work for Canada Post. It wasn't anywhere near as taxing on the body as it is today. Canada Post is not transitioning well with the high increases in online shopping and parcel volume vs staffing and health and safety over the past 3 or so years. Short staffing with high expectations of our bodies for low pay is not ethical. $19.86/hr for anyone hired into the collective agreement after Feb 2013 and $26.XX for anyone hired prior to Feb 2013. Many of those making $26.XX will retire soon.
Injury Facts at Canada Post
- During the last four years there have been 30,774 injuries to CUPW members. Of these 14,751 were disabling injuries.
- One out of every 12 workers at Canada Post experienced a disabling injury in 2017.
- The disabling injury rate at CPC is 5.4 times greater than the rest of the Federal sector.
- 25% of letter carriers experienced an injury in 2017.
- One out of every eight letter carriers experienced a disabling injury in 2017.
- The increase in injuries is directly related to the introduction of Postal Transformation.
- During the past three years the number of disabling injuries for RSMCs has increased 3
Try walking over 10-30km every day, lifting, carrying volumes, or feeding approx 2.5-5k parcels to the belt 1-2x a week and see what you think. Wine is the worst. :) I'm excited about processing light weight cannabis packages.
Hopefully the corporation realizes that we are worth much more than they are collectively, as are their customers, and decides to support a healthy work place at Canada Post.
The union rakes in around 60 million in dues annually and that money goes where? Welp, $600 for each grievance, split 50/50 between Canada Post and the union. What a HUGE waste of money! Grievances are another story. MINIMAL strike pay has been paid out by the union in decades, and it seems that the least they can do for us is rotating strikes. The union could hire 1400+ full time employees at $19.86/yr with those dues!!
P.S.Canada Post is a profitable corporation under the Crown Corp. The taxpayer benefits from low priced postal service, if it suits their needs, and also benefits from the profits of the corporation. Quite contrary to the rumour going around that Canada Post costs the taxpayer.
subopolois1 wrote: solarcradle wrote: I should have added. Mail has been diverted to other plants and is being processed by workers that are now working extra hard to get committed mail and mail out from plants that are on rotating strike. It just doesn't seem like the rotating strike is doing much more than a trickle effect, for now
"working hard" I dont know where you live, but ive never seen any canada post worker working hard anywhere