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Slava · 06-27-2011, 07:23 AM

I'm not thrilled with the strike/lockout (I actually use mail for both business and personal things and it has been a huge irritation). That being said when service was disrupted due to rotating strikes I didn't really care. It was between the corporation and their employees. When service was cut to 3 days a week I thought that was fine as well....I actually think they should do that permanently for residential service.

The lockout though is where things got screwed up. If CP wants to complain that the limited disruption cost them $100M (a figure that is probably grossly inflated in the propaganda war) then how much did a complete shutdown cost? It was the corporations choice to scale back to 3 day service and their choice again to lockout the workers.

So while I tend to agree with people saying the union should just be happy to have a job, I also think the corporation did their best to grind down morale at CP. Really, I hardly care about the dispute though....I just want the mail to be delivered and the reason it stopped is CP, not the workers themselves.

Before anyone dives in and says "Slava, you hate the CPC and of course are on the other side" you should know that I think that the NDP games through this were just ridiculous. Basically they just wasted everyone's time and for no good reason. They were just grandstanding. I actually do think that the CPC was left with no choice but to force the people back to work here as well. So this isn't political for me. I just think that the corporation is where the blame should lie.

06-27-2011, 07:23 AM	#467
Slava Franchise Player Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Calgary, Alberta Exp:	I'm not thrilled with the strike/lockout (I actually use mail for both business and personal things and it has been a huge irritation). That being said when service was disrupted due to rotating strikes I didn't really care. It was between the corporation and their employees. When service was cut to 3 days a week I thought that was fine as well....I actually think they should do that permanently for residential service. The lockout though is where things got screwed up. If CP wants to complain that the limited disruption cost them $100M (a figure that is probably grossly inflated in the propaganda war) then how much did a complete shutdown cost? It was the corporations choice to scale back to 3 day service and their choice again to lockout the workers. So while I tend to agree with people saying the union should just be happy to have a job, I also think the corporation did their best to grind down morale at CP. Really, I hardly care about the dispute though....I just want the mail to be delivered and the reason it stopped is CP, not the workers themselves. Before anyone dives in and says "Slava, you hate the CPC and of course are on the other side" you should know that I think that the NDP games through this were just ridiculous. Basically they just wasted everyone's time and for no good reason. They were just grandstanding. I actually do think that the CPC was left with no choice but to force the people back to work here as well. So this isn't political for me. I just think that the corporation is where the blame should lie.