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Originally Posted by burnin_vernon
I don't know where to begin. First of all, any CP worker I know isn't really concerned about the wage increase. The major sticking point is that they want to take away our sick time. Currently we get about 1 1/2 days per month which can be accumulated and used for illness or injury. We have to have a doctors note every time we use it, and there is no credit for having extra days when we retire. Most of us have over 200 sick days saved for when we hit 50+ years old and the wear and tear of the job has claimed knees, feet, necks, backs, shoulders, etc.. I work with a 50 year old who currently needs a hip replacement and is walking his 10K a day until he gets the operation.
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So between the ages of 50 and retirement at 55 with likely 6-7 weeks of vacation, plus weekends and holidays off, plus 200+ banked sick days, the average lifer postal worker only needs to work about 2.8 days a week to receive full pay, and all his days off need to be filled by other workers, presumably temp or on OT effectively making them cost the system double.
Doesn't sound like a bad deal to me. What's the top pay rate?