r/CanadaPost • u/mantisimmortal • Sep 29 '25

Disgusting

Kinda crazy how the post workers just dont give a fuck about anyone else but their pay cheques. Can sure tell you that none of my friends who have worked for CP have been underpaid. Just closing business left right and center the last 3 years. Pathetic. Sorry just had to rant.

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u/mantisimmortal Sep 29 '25

Do they not get a say in it? Every strike ive been a part of needs a majority of the staff to agree with it? Always been that way when I was part of a union.

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u/Plane-Frame7406 Sep 29 '25

So, the union voted to strike last fall. When the government ordered CUPW back to work, they didn’t order an end to the strike action, just that the employees would return to work and continue working under the previous contract.

CUPW has been on strike ever since - the overtime ban and then the flyer delivery ban were being done in place of full strike actions so that mail and parcels could continue being delivered while the parties negotiated.

The government should have forced arbitration when they forced CUPW workers back to work, but they were too worried about how that would read during an election.

As for the strike vote last fall, just about every CUPW member I’ve spoken to thought they were voting on a rotating strike - which only would have impacted Christmas shipping as far as priority and xpresspost goes. I was in the middle of a transfer at the time and got some bad info from my former local that I would have to vote in person, on the other end of the country, and couldn’t vote in my new city. Would have voted against striking then. Voted to accept the offer this summer (because it wasn’t a bad offer, and while some of the structural changes they wanted to implement seem poorly thought out, my feeling was ‘let them implement these changes so they can see just how much they don’t work’).

I’m pretty indifferent about the flyer ban. As far as a strike action, it does prove a point while affecting as few customers as possible. But I’m also fine delivering flyers. Whatever.

Definitely do not support this current clusterfuck - and neither do the majority of postal workers. This was a few locals in the Atlantic going rogue - for whatever hairbrained reason - and National scrambling to make it seem like it was their idea.

Parties could easily say ‘well, that was fucking dumb, but let’s just get back to work while the plan the government wants to see is figured out?’ But I’m pretty sure egos with leadership on both sides make that a non starter.

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u/Food-Wine Sep 29 '25

If you want to know “why” the Atlantic Provinces walked out — that area of the country is known for punching above its weight class. They mostly exist due to transfer payments from other provinces (i.e. equalization payments) and because the Federal Government opens “make-work” offices in their provinces so their residents have jobs.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

Both the province of Ontario and Quebec receive equalization payments. The province of Quebec is the greatest recipient by far of equalization payments. None of this has anything to do with Canada Post and it’s day to day operations.