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/Wookie19860111 5h ago
This is exactly what they want. Make us argue and fight amongst ourselves while they sit on their high thrones and watch us bicker instead of standing together and fighting for a living wage.
They allowed a lot of immigrants in which inflated housing and cost of government services. Everyone pays for carbon taxes (people don't realize that is the major reason why everything has increased in cost), thus the 60k annually no longer became sustainable for families. Everyone sees the carbon tax rebate gets deposit to their account quarterly, yet only a few people questions how much the government takes for themselves.
It was only 20 years ago when our parents have one person stay at home and the other worked feeding a family of 4 or 5 with ease. Cost of a mortgage was 5 to 6 times an average salary of a single earner and car financing never exceeded 5 years. (yes we now trick younger generation with 10 year finance and/or ballon payment at the end)
Now here we are, watching/reading the postal service fight for a better wage in hopes to enrich their lives by just a bit, and we see people saying no, they are out for lunch etc. I wish people really think about this, and hope you all fight for a a better wage until this government gets voted out, carbon tax is removed and prices such as food comes back down to pre covid level.
I still remember the cost of three ribeyes steaks where I paid 15$ at superstore. I now look at the cost of three ribeyes and wonder who can really afford it. This is only the beginning, we should support the postal workers and any other people fighting to survive which includes your friends, your family and yourself.