Canada Post has rejected its union’s latest contract proposal, calling it “a step backward” and warning it would add $1.4 billion in overall costs.
“We were surprised. We were disappointed after eight months of negotiating,” said Canada Post spokesman Jon Hamilton. “The costs would have to be either passed on to customers through higher rates, or taxpayers through a request for government support.
“That’s not acceptable,” he said.
Negotiators for the 48,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are now examining the company’s counter-offer.
In an interview before receiving management’s response, national president Denis Lemelin said the union is concerned about creating a two-tier system. Workers now earn about $24 an hour, and Canada Post has proposed $18 an hour for new employees, Lemelin said.
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Democracy Gone Astray
Democracy, being a human construct, needs to be thought of as directionality rather than an object. As such, to understand it requires not so much a description of existing structures and/or other related phenomena but a declaration of intentionality.
This blog aims at creating labeled lists of published infringements of such intentionality, of points in time where democracy strays from its intended directionality. In addition to outright infringements, this blog also collects important contemporary information and/or discussions that impact our socio-political landscape.
All the posts here were published in the electronic media – main-stream as well as fringe, and maintain links to the original texts.
[NOTE: Due to changes I haven't caught on time in the blogging software, all of the 'Original Article' links were nullified between September 11, 2012 and December 11, 2012. My apologies.]
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