An article from the Globe and Mail. The just of it beign the real justification of the strike/lock out.
Also, further in the article, a very calculated move by Canada Post if true to trap the union
Quote:
The dispute was never about pensions and new hires. For both sides, it was about a smaller Canada Post and more flexible work rules in the large urban sorting plants where Canada Post has invested $2-billion in new equipment. These machines will allow the postal service to save roughly $250-million a year, largely by delivering more mail with 7,000 fewer workers, according to an internal CUPW bulletin to members.
The real long-term threat to CUPW is that its membership will inevitably shrink as Canada Post’s monopoly letter-delivery business fades.
Workers seem to be out of touch with a stark reality: Canada Post isn’t a make-work project. Its main business is in inexorable decline. Since 2006, the average number of pieces of mail delivered to Canadians has fallen 17 per cent, replaced by e-mail, online billing and other electronic transactions. At the same time, Canada Post is required by its mandate to get the mail to roughly 200,000 new addresses every year.
And in spite of the government’s seemingly harsh back-to-work order, CUPW may just find that most Canadians are with the Harper government on this one.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/repor...rticle2076243/
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