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Tasha Kheiriddin: Will Canadians go postal over a CUPW strike?
Tasha Kheiriddin May 31, 2011 – 10:30 AM ET | Last Updated: May 31, 2011 12:45 PM ET
Quick quiz: Identify the employer whose 50,000 workers enjoy these conditions:
* They can retire after 30 years’ service, as early as age 55, and collect a full pension.
* New employees receive wages of $24 an hour and seven weeks’ annual vacation.
* Employees can bank sick days.
If you answered “The government of Greece”, “GM”, or “IBM circa 1975”, you’re dead wrong. The right answer is: Canada Post Corporation, 2011.
At the same time, Canada Post’s business, like that of postal services around the world, is in steady decline. Since 2006, the volume of letters it delivers has dropped by 17%, despite the fact that each year 200,000 new addresses (or supermailboxes, depending on where you live) are added to its list of must-serve clients. These households are making greater use of the internet to do basic transactions, such as paying the bills, while making less use of the mail.
Ian Lindsay/Postmedia News
Canada Post has set a strike deadline of Thursday at 11:59 p.m.
Naturally, Canada Post’s management is trying to find a way out of this squeeze. In its contract negotiations with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), it is proposing to create two tiers of employees, grandfathering current hires and offering new ones a cheaper (but still sweet) deal : wages of $17.50 an hour and six weeks’ vacation, and the possibility of retiring at 60 instead of 55. It is also offering all employees wage increases of 1.9% for the next three years, and 2% for the fourth year, while seeking to end the practice of banking sick days.
Tasha Kheiriddin: Will Canadians go postal over a CUPW strike?
Tasha Kheiriddin May 31, 2011 – 10:30 AM ET | Last Updated: May 31, 2011 12:45 PM ET
Quick quiz: Identify the employer whose 50,000 workers enjoy these conditions:
* They can retire after 30 years’ service, as early as age 55, and collect a full pension.
* New employees receive wages of $24 an hour and seven weeks’ annual vacation.
* Employees can bank sick days.
If you answered “The government of Greece”, “GM”, or “IBM circa 1975”, you’re dead wrong. The right answer is: Canada Post Corporation, 2011.
At the same time, Canada Post’s business, like that of postal services around the world, is in steady decline. Since 2006, the volume of letters it delivers has dropped by 17%, despite the fact that each year 200,000 new addresses (or supermailboxes, depending on where you live) are added to its list of must-serve clients. These households are making greater use of the internet to do basic transactions, such as paying the bills, while making less use of the mail.
Ian Lindsay/Postmedia News
Canada Post has set a strike deadline of Thursday at 11:59 p.m.
Naturally, Canada Post’s management is trying to find a way out of this squeeze. In its contract negotiations with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), it is proposing to create two tiers of employees, grandfathering current hires and offering new ones a cheaper (but still sweet) deal : wages of $17.50 an hour and six weeks’ vacation, and the possibility of retiring at 60 instead of 55. It is also offering all employees wage increases of 1.9% for the next three years, and 2% for the fourth year, while seeking to end the practice of banking sick days.
