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Originally Posted by Dion
Which is why it should never happen. In the vast majority of the cases the employer has more resources to last out a strike than the employees and in many cases emplyees vote to go back because they can't afford to pay the bills on strike pay.
All this could be avoided if employers were allowed to talk directly with the employees to give their side of the story. Unions don't allow for this and for the life of me I can't understand what they would be afraid of.
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In this specific case I think the union has really let the workers down. From what I have read, it sounds like the union and CPC have been "negotiating" for the last 8 months but little to nothing had actually been done until a couple weeks ago. In my opinion, the union should have been pushing much harder to get a deal worked out. The Union has allowed the rural mail carriers to work without a contract since February. If I was a union member I would be pissed at this inactivity and incompetence.
I'm sure the workers themselves could have come to solution with CPC in a much more timely matter. The Union needs a top to bottom investigation to figure out what exactly they are doing.