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Originally Posted by calgarygeologist
Or just shut down the corporation and give a Government contract to the best bidder (FedEx, Purolator, UPS.) I think it has been a money pit for years.
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Canada post owns purolator, they will essentially move as much of their business to them as possible. Canada post is actually doing very well, they have restructured and now mainly deliver parcel shipments. They most certainly aren't losing any money.
https://www.thestar.com/business/201...nion-says.html
For those who don't know how the process/laws of collective bargaining work, in a nutshell both sides meet for negotiations, exchange proposals/amendments, go back and fourth trying to reach an agreement, when either side declares an impass, mediation begins with a government approved mediator, if mediation fails, there is a 2 week cooling off period before either side can choose to have a strike or lockout vote, if either vote is held whichever side(usually both) must wait 3 days before striking or locking out their employees.
In this case with Canada post, it appears as though Canada post is attempting to fast track a lock out. This is a commonly used tactic by companies when negotiating during a poor economy where jobs are scarce. Basically they will use purolator as leverage, tell the postal employees that they will move all their parcels through them and leave their employees locked out until they accept whatever garbage they are offering, knowing the employees will be afraid since they won't find as high paying jobs to work at while on strike.
This is a big reason why you see so many major corporations buying out their competition, it provides a lot of flexibility for contract negotiation to have different ways of reaching your customers while taking bargaining power away from the workers. If they do end up in a work dispute hopefully people will support the workers, at the end of the day what happens to one group of workers has a ripple affect on all other workers, union or non-union