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Old 06-02-2011
bmt337 bmt337 is offline
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Pending Postal Strike

As a postal worker I will be on the picket line at midnight tonight if nothing is worked out between Canada Post and the Union. The issue is not about MONEY as some people have stated. It is holding onto the benefits we as a Union have fought for and earned. One major issue is sick time. Some employees have as much as 5,000 hours of sick time accumulated which they can access under the current contract so they can be paid at 100% when they are out sick. They've earned that. Under the contract Canada Post is trying to ram through, they intend to issue us with a total of 7 personal days a year, that we can use for things like family emergencies, sick time, etc and they freeze our sick time credits. Lets say for example I fall, break an arm and my doctor puts me out for two months, I have to go the first seven days without pay, thats where the seven personal days come in, which I can use and I'll be paid at 70% of my wages. If Manulife approves it, they can top my pay up to 100% providing I have enough sick time credits accumulated. If I don't give Manulife permission to contact my doctor and give them access to my tests, specialists reports, x-rays they can choose not to pay me at all even if I have sick time accummulated. If I'm going to be out sick any length of time I will be forced under the new contract to apply for Unemployment Insurance under this new contact in order to be paid. Essentually Canada Post wants you the taxpayer to pay for their short term disability plan by forcing us to go on Unemployment. Theres 50,000+ members nation wide. Canada Post has cut services, they've cut door to door delivery and in its place are putting in community box sites, its all about saving money, they don't care who it hurts and who its impacts, they expect more work from their workers while cutting jobs in the plant (less people to do the work), they aren't filling vacancies which results in injuries on the job. If you haven't got a problem with your taxes going to pay for my sick time because I have to go on Unemployment Insurance, I'm sure there are many taxpayers who will. We make a good wage, but we are by far NOT the highest wage earners in the city as Canada Post stated in an on air interview on June 1st. Many of us are good people, hard workers, I am tired of being harrassed by my employer and by Manulife. Nobody should be forced into giving permission to Manulife to speak to my doctor and access MY confidential medical information that they are not entitled to see, they are entitled to my functional limitations only and doing whatever they want with it and being told if I don't provide it I may not be paid. Blackmail is illegal. You do not see the struggles that go on within the walls of the plant I work at. Say "NO" to the short term disability plan Canada Post wants to put through which you the taxpayer will be paying for out of your taxes. Please call:

Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2

E-mail: pm@pm.gc.ca
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Old 06-02-2011
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MOST people get ZERO sick time. I would be OK with a reasonable amount of sick time accumulated in union jobs (say, a month). My dad worked 40 yrs at NBTel and accumulated approx 1 yr. I thought THAT was excessive so guess what I think about 2-1/2 times that.
I can't imagine anyone being in a union job at post for more than 30 yrs so 5000 hrs/ 30 yrs works out to an incredible 167 hrs PER YEAR (4+ weeks!). If you're that sickly you are too sick to work!
In a world where people are reduced to having to ask permission to go to the bathroom for a fraction of what you are paid you shouldn't expect much sympathy from the general public serfs.
I have grown more and more disgusted with post over the years because it is increasingly slow and expensive. Recently I declined ordering a 3# box of seed from 200 KM away because of the utterly ridiculous $25 mail cost. I could have driven up cheaper, and made several thousand dollars delivering to other customers in my area at the post's rate.
Someone stole my daughter's birthday card with $20 in it from grandma.
I don't wish to see anyone out of a job, but I think the aftermath of this strike will be MASSIVE layoffs as this straw breaks the camel's back.
It's cool that you realized the benefit of including an EMAIL address.
I don't wish to participate in a debate, this is just my 2 cents.
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Old 06-02-2011
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I don't set the prices neither do the people I work with, Canada Post in Ottawa makes those decisions, as to the number of sick time hours the individual I was speaking about has accumulated, he has rarely ever taken a sick day in his entire career at Canada Post. But if the contract goes through, they will freeze all his sick time credits he has earned through the system THEY put into place. As for money being stolen out of your daughters birthday card, that is unfortunate but it doesn't speak to the vast majority of postal workers who are honest and hard working. Are there a few lazy workers, yes, but that can be said for any business, so please don't lump us all in together. Irving Pulp and Paper Mill, Moosehead, the Refinery all make more than we do. If Canada Post posted vacancies tomorrow many of the people who knock Canada Post would be the first ones applying. Services have been cut and continue to be cut, people are retiring, but they're not backfilling the positions, they want the same if not more mail processed but they don't have the numbers of workers are decreasing. Something is going to give. and its called service. So until you've done our job, please don't pretend to know what your talking about.
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Old 06-03-2011
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bmt... I am with you 100%. The average person will just look at it as you already have more than most but that's not the way to see it. You guys fought for what you have and the minute you give one thing up, it's a snowball effect. You will never get it back. Trust me, you guys need to stay strong. I am in a union myself, and we have given up so much. Stay strong. Union Pride for Life!
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Old 06-07-2011
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I personally think that Unions have shot themselves in the foot over the years...
my husband worked at Labatts for years...when the company shut the plant down the union didn't do one damned thing...just slunk away back down to the US of A taking all that money with them.
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Why can't they just let the people currently employed keep the benefits they have, and have new hires suck it up and accept the lesser offering, knowing what they are getting on startup? In my job, I have benefits XYZ, but after I had been there a year, they changed the policy and new hires were only offered X Y and no Z, but they didn't take away what those of us who were already there had.
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Old 06-20-2011
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I know this is an older post, but I have a question...
I am a working mother with 2 jobs. A 3rd cleaning peoples homes when I really need the extra.
My family allowance cheque did not show up today, and I have been told by friends that they got theirs...Are they maybe delivering them tomorrow too?
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Old 06-20-2011
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p.s.- i support you 100%. Yeah, I have no benefits or sick time, and only make min. wage. However, if i had them, I would fight with my life to keep them
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Old 06-21-2011
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I know this is an older post, but I have a question...
I am a working mother with 2 jobs. A 3rd cleaning peoples homes when I really need the extra.
My family allowance cheque did not show up today, and I have been told by friends that they got theirs...Are they maybe delivering them tomorrow too?
Hi, I have heard of a few people that didn't get theirs as well, something you may want to try to do is either call them up or go down to the Rothesay Ave Branch and see if they can find it for you, or I wonder if you called family allowance if they could direct deposit it for you....but I'd call Canada Post to see if they can find it, some of the supervisors are pretty good and will at least try. Good luck.
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