Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
101010.pl is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
101010.pl czyli najstarszy polski serwer Mastodon. Posiadamy wpisy do 2048 znaków.

Administered by:

Server stats:

494
active users

101010.pl: AboutStatusProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.4.0-alpha.5

#unionstrong

1 post1 participant1 post today
*
Ned Yeung

So by now I assume you've heard that the Canadian Union of Postal Workers has issued a 72-hour strike notice, effective tomorrow. Our posties could walk out in the morning, if Canada Post doesn't lock them out, like they did last Christmas.

Keep in mind that our postal workers have been fighting to keep postal services accessible to all. When they gave strike notice last Christmas, they proposed a rolling strike which would not have disrupted services. Canada Post responded with a lockout, which shut the whole operation down. Our posties went on to volunteer their time to ensure vital government assistance cheques were still delivered - for free. Our government responded by ending the strike with a Back to Work order, extending the current contract to May 22, 2025 (today), taking away the postal worker's position of leverage over the Christmas season.

Looking over the current offers on the table, Canada Post is dead set on increasing workload and occupational hazards, while resisting an increase in pay that comes close to making up for inflation and cost of living increases over the course of the last contract, while suspending benefits and hiring out part-time staff over the stability of full-time positions, demanding two-tiered wages so that newer employees can be paid even less.

cupw.ca/en/cupw-receives-globa

Now I've heard a lot of talk about "Canada Post should operate like UPS/FedEx/Purolator" (the latter of which is owned by Canada Post, I might add). This is based on a gross misconception that Canada Post fails to be profitable because of mismanagement or waste. That is not the case. What makes Canada Post different than the others is a guarantee of coverage and accessibility, which they have taken on as a crown corporation. This is why Canada Post loses its profitability, because of guaranteed service which private operations (including Purolator) do not have to abide by.

Canada Post is a national service and SHOULD be nationally funded.

When people say that "Canada Post should operate like a business", I don't think they realize what that means. It means that rural locations should not be allowed access to parcel delivery, period. It means that seniors should have no access to mail delivery that they can pick up themselves. It means that if servicing your area is not profitable, you don't get mail. Period.

My union conducts business all over Alberta, with locals in the big municipalities of Edmonton and Calgary, as well as locals in smaller communities all across the province. When Canada Post was shut down last Christmas, that meant that we had to switch to Purolator (FedEx has crossed strike lines and are not an option). That meant that we could not deliver to any of our locals in more rural communities. That meant that the only way they got mail was from a union member or staffer PERSONALLY delivering it to them.

This, on a permanent and national level, is what it would mean for Canada Post to "run like a business". No, that is not the answer. The answer is publicly funding Canada Post, and/or implementing solutions which the CUPW have proposed, such as implementing a postal banking system used in a number of other countries throughout the world.

The only answer that Canada Post corporate can come up with? Cut services until profit margins appear.

Stand with CUPW and our postal workers, and save our national postal service.

#cdnpoli#abpoli#onpoli
Continued thread
knizer

#BostonWeekend 2/x
Thu #workers: #MayDay rally 530p @ #BostonCommon

instagram.com/p/DIwx1kYhqTR/ bit.ly/bos-mayday2025
#Boston #Labor #1u #UnionStrong #IWW #Massachusetts #InternationalWorkersDay

InstagramMassachusetts Peace Action on Instagram: "WORKERS SHOULD HAVE POWER 💪, NOT THE BILLIONAIRES! 🙅 This is a war on working people—and we will not stand down. The billionaires are defunding our schools, privatizing public services, attacking unions, and targeting immigrant families with fear and violence. Working people built this nation and we know how to take care of each other. We won’t back down—we will never stop fighting for our families and the rights and freedoms that propel opportunity and a better life for all Americans. Their time is up. Join us this May Day for a rally and march to send the message, loud and clear, that we will not stay on the sidelines while our people are under attack! 📅 Thursday, May 1 🕔 5:30pm 📍 Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common"190 likes, 1 comments - masspeaceaction on April 22, 2025: "WORKERS SHOULD HAVE POWER 💪, NOT THE BILLIONAIRES! 🙅 This is a war on working people—and we will not stand down. The billionaires are defunding our schools, privatizing public services, attacking unions, and targeting immigrant families with fear and violence. Working people built this nation and we know how to take care of each other. We won’t back down—we will never stop fighting for our families and the rights and freedoms that propel opportunity and a better life for all Americans. Their time is up. Join us this May Day for a rally and march to send the message, loud and clear, that we will not stay on the sidelines while our people are under attack! 📅 Thursday, May 1 🕔 5:30pm 📍 Parkman Bandstand, Boston Common".
Laffy

" #Unions Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by #Trump

Organized labor has taken a leading role in challenging the Trump administration’s downsizing agenda in court. A new service will offer more individualized representation." #UnionStrong

nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/poli

The New York Times · Unions Form Pro Bono Legal Network for Federal Workers Targeted by TrumpBy Rebecca Davis O’Brien
*
Ned Yeung

The problem is if they charge you 50 cents more for fries, that profit isn't going to the workers.

They won't be letting go of that extra profit and release the funds back to the workers. They see profit and keep it. The only time they will give any of it to the workers is when they are forced to. As such, the only way workers can retain a living wage is through unionization and collective labour action. And the only way we can maintain our rights to job action and union activity, is by keeping union busters out of our government (which in Canada means no Conservatives).

There is more than enough profit going around for them to give a sliver of it to the people who make it. They don't need any more profit to treat workers fairly, they simply choose not to. You will never get any more of the pie by making them more pie.

#cdnpoli#abpoli#union
ExploreLive feeds
About