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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I don't think that Canada Post will be privatized. But for the most part there is a courier network to most fairly small and remote population centers.
I do think that one of the leverage points was really the mass delivery boxes and the Trudeau Government basically killed them. But the government can really bring those back into the discussions privately and in the back room.
In terms of privatization, instead of that, I believe what will happen will be a shrinking of Canada Post and the cancellation of services at some point. Nobody will want to buy them, especially with a $6 billion dollar pension liability. Instead it will be allowed to wither and die, and Canada Post will simply be able to say, we don't want to do package deliveries, we have Purolator for that. The day of 8 hour work days for postal workers will eventually fade to this being a part time job due to being able to mass deliver mail to postal boxes.
The Union holds very little leverage in this whole thing. Basically from what I've seen, its not like when the Union used to be able to hold the country hostage every two yeas anymore. People are going lockout? Strike? who gives a crap.
So the real question is how long are the union members going to be willing to live on strike pay?
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The SuperBox issue is another huge thing coming up as well.
I dont believe that CP will ever Privatize, but by nature we all have to adapt to survive and the SuperBox is a perfect example of the current non-productive attitudes.
"We want what we've always had and we want it guaranteed forever."
"You cant get more efficient! That means you wont need as many of us!"
Translates to:
"They're taking our jobs!"
Which in the context of:
"We're losing the labour war to a compartmentalized steel bin!"
They are losing to inanimate objects.
This was a decision that was made by Canada Post and the Government at the time in an effort to adapt and in a shocking and immediate act of partisan hackery the day after his election the new PM drops an executive order halting the entire initiative.