Big picture: Because the cost of living (inflation is just one component) has been increasing for 40 years, with very little increase in compensation or benefits.
Small picture: Canada Post wants to exploit delivery/logistics workers the way Amazon does, and that’s a crock of shit.
This is really helpful. Most of what I have seen are people on reddit screeching about how entitled and unskilled postal workers are. I’ll continue to buy locally and avoid Amazon.
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.
For an actual answer, the union is demanding basic needs be met, like a minimum 20 hour workweek guarantee, cost of living adjustments, cutting down on exploitive contract labour policies, and Canada post execs want to cut labour hours while increasing the number of days open, delivery hours, and overall increasing the stress and workload for staff without increasing compensation.
