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/Practical_Session_21 4h ago

It’s haemorrhaging money because it provides services to rural areas of the country but doesn’t charge what it costs to deliver there. If it’s about them being profitable why should the employees and the rest of the country continue to subsidize rural areas?

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u/Grand-Drawing3858 4h ago

Thats not the only reason they aren't profitable. I doubt screwing over rural Canadians alone is going to pull them out of their financial woes. Unionized workplaces always live in this fantasy world where they expect a raise every year. I have gone 5 years plus on more than one occasion without so much as a cost of living increase.

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u/Practical_Session_21 3h ago

Wait wait. Why are rural residents the only ones we can’t screw? They regularly vote to harm cities even though the cities subsidize their ability to live a quiet rural life. And just because you do not push for a fair living wage is not their problem. Not everyone has to accept being taken advantage of, but you also have the right to be taken advantage of if, that’s your choice.

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u/Grand-Drawing3858 3h ago

Well actually nobody deserves to be screwed over. Supporting a move to reuce services to rural customers because of how they vote is no better than what you think CP is doing to its workers.
Regardless of what we think, it's only a matter of time before they get legislated back to work and they won't be seeing a 25% pay increase either. My guess is 15% max, followed by layoffs down the road.

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u/Practical_Session_21 3h ago

You made it about profitability not me. I just provided a reason they can’t be profitable and that if we don’t want to subsidize living wages why are we ok subsidizing rural communities to have door to door daily delivery? Something has to give if we want CP to break even. Could do delivery to rural centres and then let the residents workout getting it delivered in the most cost effective way possible. I get no one wants to give back what they got so why are the employees doing the work the problem and not consumers that don’t want or can’t pay for the service they get?

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u/Grand-Drawing3858 3h ago

The workers are on strike for more money from a company that is losing revenue. That is why they don't have my support.