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[–] DarkSirrush 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

Here's a quote from the Canada post business newsletter they sent out today about the strike:

Our core business is delivery. While postal services around the world are working constructively to evolve their delivery approach to respond to changing customer needs, CUPW’s demands reinforce the status quo and add significant and unsustainable long-term fixed costs. One example is continuing to demand that our facility cleaning staff and other contracted support services become permanent Canada Post employees.

Edit: People who down voted this, why? It came directly from Canada Post, and shows just how little they consider their workers to be humans that deserve rights. The past 3 newsletters are all written with a huge "unions are bad and stifle progress" vibe, even though the union is just trying to protect the workers.

[–] DerisionConsulting 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I didn't downvote you, but by quoting without an addition comment, your comment seems like it agrees with what Canada Post said.

If you included your "for an actual answer" self-reply as part of your original comment, you likely wouldn't've been down-voted in the same way.

[–] DarkSirrush 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fair point, I just assumed that the excerpt I chose was clearly evil enough no one would mistake the top level comment for support.

[–] monnier 1 points 2 months ago

Canada Post wouldn't say those things out loud if they expected that most people would see it as "clearly evil". Sadly I think their expectations aren't completely wrong in this respect 😒

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