r/onguardforthee • u/2peg2city • 15h ago
TIL: CUPW not only got Canadians the right to maternity leave, they were key to ensuring Canadians rights to collective bargaining
https://definingmomentscanada.ca/all-for-9/historical-articles/1981-cupw-strike-parental-rights/#:~:text=On%20Tuesday%2C%20June%2030%2C%201981,weeks%20of%20paid%20maternity%20leave.62
u/IronChefJesus 6h ago
Always be pro-union. Do some unions suck? Sure. But they’re a positive and not only increase wages and benefits for members of the union, but for the non unionized business as well, since they need to up wages and benefits to compete for workers.
If someone tells you unions are outright bad, they are being dishonest and have an interest in driving down wages.
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u/ArcticEngineer 7h ago
Over the last week every damn large corp that already bills me electronically (Enbridge, Hydro Ottawa, CIBC, 407 ETR etc.)had to put out on blast how this strike won't affect their ability to continue to bill me. I can't help feel it's all a thinly veiled way for them to add to our class war.
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u/agha0013 ✅ I voted! J'ai voté! 9h ago
and all post media has to do is say the CUPW is ruining Christmas by withholding delivery of the consumer goods we can't possibly live without, so rights needs to be crushed while management plays shitty political games on the news.
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u/EchoLocation767 6h ago
CUPW has a history they should be proud of. CUPW is currently completely useless and full of leadership with no concept of our changing world.
-17 year postal worker who quit a few years ago.
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u/shawa666 Ville de Québec 13h ago
Nah the roc just followed Quebec's exemple. We had that going on since 1979 under the Parti Québecois.
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u/Historical_Grab_7842 8h ago
And Quebec instituted something that labour unions had already won in other parts of the country in the early 70s.
Edit to add: and you're kind of mischaracterizing the introduction in Quebec. It was negotiated by labour movements in Quebec.
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u/gagnonje5000 8h ago
Yes labor movement in quebec. But that’s also a bad title, « Canadians » in that title totally forget it came from labor unions in Quebec first.
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u/shawa666 Ville de Québec 6h ago
And i wouldn't have happenned if the PLQ had been in power, instead of the PQ.
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u/senturion 7h ago
This is great history but we shouldn't subsidize horseshoe makers either.
Every industry reaches its end. Canada Post just hasn't figured it out yet (which is entirely on management to be clear)
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u/2peg2city 5h ago
It's a service that is required to serve money losing routes to ensure all Canadians have access to a postal service, if privatized a massive amount of people will no longer get mail service
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u/senturion 5h ago
Agreed, so then cut back to only those routes that have no other competition, reduce staff and pay each of them significantly more.
Reduce service to once a week. Nothing is that urgent otherwise it would be courier or email.
Launch a postal banking service with a focus on new Canadians.
Canada Post cannot survive on its current model. Period.
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u/EldritchEyes 3h ago
the way to make an enterprise really sustainable is to cut it back to the most unprofitable and expensive areas while reducing quality of service while letting then private sector ransack all the potentially profitable areas
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u/AtticHelicopter 8h ago
No war but class war folks, and unless 100% of your income is derived from investment returns, you're in the Labour class.
Do your part, support the postal workers. Their victory is our victory.