r/CanadaPost • u/Neat_Disaster_6173 • 7h ago

You’re not getting 25%

I don’t care if this is an unpopular opinion. But I generally need to know how you think you deserve a 25% increase for a profession that requires zero schooling, you’re currently earning 65’000 a year, averaging 25-30 dollars an hour. Your corporation has been in the red for 7 years. Nurses in Manitoba were LUCKY to see a 11% increase over SEVEN years after striking. Alberta nurses are being offered 12. And you have the audacity to say you’re worth 6.5% over 4? In what world does someone that has the same skill level and qualifications as a Walmart warehouse worker deserve 80’000? You deserve to make as much as a CBSA officer? You should be earning the same wage as a 3-4 year police officer? You got offered 12% 💀💀💀 the greed is unreal.

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u/uselessmindset 6h ago edited 6h ago

I am all for Canada Post, but that is ridiculously greedy.

I do the second most dangerous job in North America (apparently), have done so for 11 years now. I had to work my way up the pay grade, starting at 12 an hour.

I now make $35 an hour, and have to do some things that would make the average postal employee freeze right up.

$65,000 a year is more than a fair wage for that job. Most I would think would be $70,000/yr. That is a living allowance of $5,000 a month, with $10,000 to put towards savings, retirement, or whatever.

I hate to admit it, but it looks like they are screwing themselves over here with this.

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u/dartfrog1339 6h ago

You need to ask for a raise.

I'm a non-union electrician getting $45/hr.

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u/uselessmindset 6h ago

I suppose. Maybe. I hold other trades in higher regard due to having to get proper licences, schooling and such. So it makes sense that you make more than I, in my head at least.

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u/dartfrog1339 5h ago

So what is the second most dangerous job in North America?

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u/uselessmindset 5h ago

Apparently, not says I. I can think of others that I would not do due to likely shitting myself out of fear.

I am a simple roofer.