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Originally Posted by THE TERMINATOR
Except for the union workers in Victoria, They are too old to be able to see the postage address and too stubborn to get glasses, and guess what..... the mail goes to the wrong place. But since Canada post is union (which by the way government workers should never ever be union) can not lay them off for younger people who can sort the stuff faster and better and are not too stubborn to get glasses so they can see.
Absolutely no offence to the older people who can still do a very good job, and have fun working. It's just that this group of postage sorters should lay off the work and get their pension (which is very high since they are union)
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These people you talk about don't work for the union, they work for the Canada Post. These older employees can't be replaced by younger workers because it is the law, it has nothing to do with the unions.
When I was younger I worked for a unionized company, in the beginning it helped improve our benefits, meant we would get overtime rather than work for 12 hours one day and 4 the next, because they didn't want to pay the OT. In those days the Unions were helping, but now, in Canada, the unions aren't helping much, because the labor laws have caught up. Unions are great when companies are simply trying to make a buck one the sweat of the employees. When I decided to start working for that company as a manager, I had to think long and hard, it meant that I wouldn't have to work 4 months straight 12 hours a day without days off, but I also wouldn't earn almost a full years salary in that 4 months. In our case the union just meant we would get paid for what we deserved. The beauty of it is the company can't fire you because you don't want to work the OT, but they have to pay you double time to do it.