Canada Post says workers to return Tuesday

www.cbc.ca /news/canada/british-columbia/canada-post-workers-to-return-tuesday-1.7411292

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They weren't even asking for that much, it's pretty ridiculous that Canada Post leadership fought this hard to prevent people that have been there 28 years or more 2 extra weeks of vacation.
- from my understanding all this does is kick the can down the road to May and Canada Post leadership is still fighting to prevent that 2 weeks of vacation
  (from 3 days ago)
  Amid the ongoing Canada Post strike, federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon announced Friday that he is asking the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to order workers back on the job if it agrees with his determination there is an “impasse” in negotiations.
  If the CIRB agrees, MacKinnon says the labour relations board would order Canada Post and all employees represented by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to resume operations and extend the terms of the existing collective agreements until May 2025.
- Wait, 2 whole extra weeks? How many weeks do they have now? 😳
  
  I believe after ten years of continuous employment anyone is entitled to 4 weeks vacation so it would mean at least 6 weeks per year, but could be more since that 4 is minimum and they could have more with their current agreement.
  My mom working for the provincial government had about 8 weeks after 30 years or so before she retired.
- They weren’t even asking for that much
  20% raise on 4 years is that much
  
  Not really, that's 1 year of 9% and 3 years of 3%. Not much when (correct me if I'm wrong but I I can't find any evidence otherwise) they've had a total increase of 4% over their last contract when the previous one ended in 2018. Inflation according to the BoC was 20% over that time and we all know in reality cost of living has gone up more than that. It's just catching up.
  
  23 bucks to 27.60 IS not that much.

yay, unions rights getting overridden by the government for the third time in a fucking row this year.
- Liberals are still scratching their head wondering why everyone hates them.

Must be nice to be Canada Post's negotiation team. Never having to work in good faith, knowing the government would -- sooner or later -- force workers back on the job, and CP would never have to actually consider their demands in any way, shape, or form.
- They're going to have to negotiate [with] themselves a good raise for all that hard work.

"Back in line, worker." -Leaders of the free world.

Liberals liberallybsupport corporations, Conservative conserve corporation's money while NDP wants to get to power an playing "hard to get".... in other words right at this moment nobody truly stands for workers rights. NDP are the closest to even begin defending workers while the other two are good at playing to fears and paying lip service to workers. We're not where US going to be come Jan, but we're rapidly chasing them

Glad to hear it. My recycling box was feeling empty without all those flyers.
- I know you're just making a joke and getting downvoted for it, but you can call CP and ask them to put you on the no junk mail list. It works.
  
  Certainly tongue in cheek, but I didn’t notice the downvotes.
  I do reuse the grocery flyers for the odd broken glass or plate, and it’s great for arts and crafts (paper maché and painting). It does eventually make its way to the bin, but some of it gets there quicker than the rest.
  
  Wait you can do that? Is that mentioned on their website or something?

Curious to see if the union members would comply with this order.
- I swear, this story said something about Canada Post agreeing to a 5% intirim raise last night, but that doesn't seem to be in there any more.
  
  Canada Post says it has agreed with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to implement a five per cent wage increase retroactive to the day after the collective agreements expired.
  I can still see it, but we should wait for CUPW to confirm to be sure. 🥹

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