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Originally Posted by chemgear
That article is a nice summary read. So many things boggle my mind from the union:
So CUPW used the dispute to push back. It wanted Canada Post to become larger, rather than smaller. It urged the post office, for example, to get into banking, getting rid of super mailboxes and allowing letter carriers to check up on the elderly along their routes. Higher postal rates would pay for the expanded service.
Workers seem to be out of touch with a stark reality: Canada Post isn’t a make-work project.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews...03-160539.html
In material distributed Friday, the union is calling on Canada Post to be more like France's postal service, which is combating reduced postal use by starting a new service called, Bonjour facteur! (Good morning, postman!).
Under the program, French letter carriers would do jobs usually carried out by family members, such as checking-in on the elderly and delivering medicines from local pharmacies to people with mobility problems.
WTF?! Next thing you know, the postal union will want to start up hospices, dog walking services or take over pool boy/milkmen duties for MILF's.  |
In Germany Duetsche Post is has quite a large banking arm and it stems from days in that part of the world where post offices took deposits. The banking arm grew and they bought a bunch of banks over the years and now actually are quite big. This is a non-starter for Canada Post because it currently performs zero banking functions and has the same where where-withall towards starting one up as any other non-banking company. It's also quite laughable that the union believes in this as progress, because it's not like letter carriers or mail sorters would make good bankers. Nor would the service be able to compete for talent if it were unionized.
The French example is essentially a full blown NDP style make-work project. If I were a postie I would be embarassed to work for a union that essentially proposed that my future work exploits should be to live off the avails of taxpayer funded charity.
The concept of labour coming together with management to make business decisions is laughable and fails everytime. The role of Unions are only with regards to worker exploitation and not worker redundancy. The problem most of them have is that they fail to understand that the product of labor is actually the point as opposed to the process thereof.