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James Baud posted:If we dropped delivery to every second business day, Canada Post could eliminate around 20,000 carrier positions across the country and save well over a billion dollars per year. Virtually nobody (else) would even notice. When you eliminate those twenty-thousand jobs, that's twenty thousand people not paying into the pension plan...
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James Baud fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Aug 26, 2018 |
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Jul 5, 2016 12:28
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Eight years between restructures. It's not cheap either.
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Jul 5, 2016 12:32
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Just saw this bad boy on reddit. This is the face of oppression, the gyrating, sexy hips and cute facial hair of oppression. Guys almost a dead ringer for 40 something Mulcair too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhVnDIpBvTE
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James Baud fucked around with this message at 13:12 on Aug 26, 2018 |
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Jul 5, 2016 12:46
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:The fact that this is once again the managements doing rather than the workers should be all the prompting the Trudeau gov should need to depose the loving worthless trash Harper appointed but the Liberals have so far been all to keen to continue with conservative poo poo on other labour policy stuff so I won't hold my breath. Given the communications that have been coming from Canada Post since the very beginning, there is not a shred of doubt in my mind that this has been management's plan all along and that there was never any hope whatsoever of a resolution and new contract without a service disruption aimed solely at destroying the CUPW and its members. The fact that Canada Post itself could end up as collateral damage seems entirely irrelevant to the Harper-era political appointees running the place. Of course, the record indicates that, for them and their ilk, such trifling things as the public interest have never gotten in the way of personal enrichment or a spot of union-busting. Trudeau should have jettisoned the lot of them at his first opportunity. They will likely get away with it, too, because the average Canadian seems to have essentially no understanding of labour negotiations. I am not holding my breath for the corporate media to deliver a cogent explanation. David Corbett fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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Jul 5, 2016 13:29
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David Corbett posted:Trudeau should have jettisoned the lot of them at his first opportunity. The government has already asked Chopra to step aside; it doesn't appear that they have the power to fire him. This sounds particularly ominous: "CBC posted:Canada Post said the 72-hour notice does not necessarily mean it will shut down on Friday.
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Jul 5, 2016 13:59
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James Baud posted:Stuff. Wrong guy to ask. I only deliver mail to about six square blocks and the rest of my day is msc (courier) work with business pick-ups and outlet runs. My day and a typical letter carriers day aren't really similar so I don't have their issues. https://canadasmodernpost.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/the-math-behind-a-letter-carrier-route/ Maybe that'll answer some questions you have.
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Jul 5, 2016 14:00
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Every corporate policy Canada Post has regarding its workers is designed to reduce the number of unionized employees, because all they want to do right now is smash CUPW. The lie that the postal workers were on strike in 2011, the Action Plan, all of it was Deepak Chopra taking orders from the Harper government to do these things. The CMB conversion stopped the very day after the Conservatives lost the election - all the proof you need, really. I spent 5 years working in their outsourced call centre, and holy gently caress does Canada Post want to bail on their pension responsibilities. Just remember - in 2013 when they released the Action Plan, ostensibly because they were losing money (a lie), Deepak Chopra gave himself a $30,000 bonus.
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Jul 5, 2016 14:10
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Canada Post has an absurdly large unfunded pension liability and it's going to be bad when they fail.
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Jul 5, 2016 14:30
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Looks like it's that time of year again, the year when our nation comes together to point at a group of highly-visible public servants and collectively say, "they make $X0 000 a year?! that's ridiculous! tell 'em to get a real job!" At least it's not the teachers this time.
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Jul 5, 2016 14:55
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Hal_2005 posted:Please find me one country where an increase in taxation led to a higher purchasing power since 1981. Go on, impress me. Or call me names while I laugh at you, that amuses me just as well. guys i'm being insulted by a third rate junior analyst working in the worlds most important banking center: calgary It's obvious you're worthless because while sovereign bond yields are hiring record lows your on the internet dishing out sick burns Go back to snowballing diluent with Andrew Leach shithead namaste friends fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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Jul 5, 2016 15:11
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I love rurals.quote:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/sudbury-man-punches-black-bear-1.3663954
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namaste faggots posted:guys i'm being insulted by a third rate junior analyst working in the worlds most important banking center: calgary Someone who decided to cite "Corelle" and Lotus as major companies or product achievements in Canada: Hal_2005 posted:I too laughed at Nortel. Thread has def taken a turn into the surreal. Must be those ultra low rates on home loans goons must be tripping over themselves to take out to buy that 2-bed in Markham. So whenever he talks about taxation and profitability, just remember this post.
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Jul 5, 2016 15:33
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:The fact that this is once again the managements doing rather than the workers should be all the prompting the Trudeau gov should need to depose the loving worthless trash Harper appointed but the Liberals have so far been all to keen to continue with conservative poo poo on other labour policy stuff so I won't hold my breath. They already asked him to step down but he refused. Can they actually fire him?
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Jul 5, 2016 15:44
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I know how Thatcher and Reagan started breaking up the unions in the 80's, when did it start in Canada? I'd like to do some volunteering for the CLC and Ottawa Labour Council but I won't be able to do much until I'm out of the Army. I'd tell my PSO that's my second career choice but I don't know how to start making those connections.
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Jul 5, 2016 15:47
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Ugh we're going to be stuck with Chopra until 2021 with that piece of poo poo picking up $10million in base compensation.
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OSI bean dip posted:Someone who decided to cite "Corelle" and Lotus as major companies or product achievements in Canada: lmao if you think CP Rail is a shining example of a Canadian company and ignore the fact that CN is twice a big and has far more reach into the US.
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Jul 5, 2016 16:08
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DariusLikewise posted:lmao if you think CP Rail is a shining example of a Canadian company and ignore the fact that CN is twice a big and has far more reach into the US. This is why we're giving Hal poo poo here because he does know absolutely nothing. It's more likely he's on disability than working in some third-rate tower on 9th Ave SW.
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Jul 5, 2016 17:00
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SNC, Bomarbdier, Canadian banks and insurers are all companies that ought to be nationalized after gutting the management (literally in the case of the criminals at SNC). Energy, mining and logging companies can go up against the wall next, although I suppose they don't really need to be nationalized immediately.
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https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jul/05/decline-street-hockey-canada-cities-game-childrenquote:Most cities are reluctant to endorse street hockey. In Vancouver, you need a written permit. In Montreal it is mostly prohibited (except in alleyways). Ottawa allows it, but feels compelled to insist that “free flow of traffic is maintained once an adjustment in the game has been made to allow the passage of a car”. (For those of you who speak Canadian or have watched Wayne’s World, you’ll know that is the legal definition of yelling: “Car!”) and this is why bylaws aren't laws
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drat kids wanting to play outside in this day and age
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eXXon posted:SNC, Bomarbdier, Canadian banks and insurers are all companies that ought to be nationalized after gutting the management (literally in the case of the criminals at SNC).
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Frosted Flake posted:I know how Thatcher and Reagan started breaking up the unions in the 80's, when did it start in Canada? The reason that Reagan and Thatcher had a mandate to go after the unions was, in part, because there had been rising labour militancy since the 1960s or in most of the developed world. After 1973 the entire postwar economic system was coming under severe strain and governments launched all kinds of improvised policy responses, some of which would be very familiar today (wage restraint, privatisation, etc) and others which are almost impossible to imagine (nationalising entire industries, imposing wage and price limits, etc.). So it's worth emphasizing that before Thatcher and Reagan there had already been attempts to reduce wages or tame the unions. Jimmy Carter, rather than Reagan, is arguably the first neoliberal president. And part of what made it possible for Thatcher to win was that her Labour predecessor, James Callaghan, lost public support in the winter of 1978-1979 due to a series of brutal labour conflicts. To pull a single illustrative statistic from wikipedia,: in Britain "In total in 1979, 29,474,000 working days were lost in industrial disputes, compared with 9,306,000 in 1978." In Canada the tenor or relations between the federal government and it's major unions was already going south by the 1970s, as reflected by the increasing use of back-to-work legislation, and Canadian employers. However, on the whole labour relations in Canada didn't get as contentious as they had in Britain or the USA until the 1990s, and most of the really brutal struggles came from the provincial governments of that era (Ralph Klein, Mike Harris, etc.).
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cowofwar posted:Canada's private companies can't R&D worth poo poo so might as well nationalize them. As soon as we nationalize them, they'll be sold off because a successor government will come and want nothing to do with it. All the employees worth keeping will then just gently caress off to the United States and build something new like what happned with the Space Shuttle.
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Jul 5, 2016 17:39
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namaste faggots posted:on the positive side, hockey is dying It has been for about a decade. Its nothing but an exclusive boys club for rich white folks.
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Jul 5, 2016 17:43
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https://twitter.com/AdamZHerman/status/728317545460174849 rich white idiots who give their sons dumb names also, lol "auston"
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Jul 5, 2016 17:45
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I'm surprised hockey is as popular as it is. You don't play it in school because what school has a hockey rink, and only the richer kids could afford all gear and "ice time" needed to actually learn the game inside some massive sports facility. There's always street hockey, but I guess that's illegal now? Good riddance.
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Baronjutter posted:I'm surprised hockey is as popular as it is. You don't play it in school because what school has a hockey rink, and only the richer kids could afford all gear and "ice time" needed to actually learn the game inside some massive sports facility. There's always street hockey, but I guess that's illegal now? Good riddance. Look at this bad wrong opinion. Ball hockey is loving rad.
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Nothing like a bunch of rich white dads, projecting their failed pro dreams on their children in the hopes they can be the next greats dad.
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DariusLikewise posted:Nothing like a bunch of rich white dads, projecting their failed pro dreams on their children in the hopes they can be the next greats dad. How dare these peasants. They should learn to embrace and wallow in our $30,000 "middle-class" filth. namaste faggots posted:https://twitter.com/AdamZHerman/status/728317545460174849 I'm honestly reminded of DeLillo with a lot of these names. A lot of smooth, drawn-out syllables. Pleasant to the ear, inoffensive. Lots of long vowels. I expect this trend to escalate.
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DariusLikewise posted:Nothing like a bunch of rich white dads, projecting their failed pro dreams on their children in the hopes they can be the next greats dad. I have to read family financial statements all the time and it's not just the rich white people spending a ridiculous amount on hockey. I've seen a single mom making like $45,000 per year spending ten grand on her son's hockey tournaments and equipment. I've pretty much vowed that any kids I have won't be playing hockey.
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Brannock posted:How dare these peasants. They should learn to embrace and wallow in our $30,000 "middle-class" filth. Work hard, spend tonnes of money, yell at/fight other parents and beat your kids enough and they just might be the next average NHL flame-out!
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Baronjutter posted:I'm surprised hockey is as popular as it is. You don't play it in school because what school has a hockey rink, and only the richer kids could afford all gear and "ice time" needed to actually learn the game inside some massive sports facility. There's always street hockey, but I guess that's illegal now? Good riddance. Soccer and basketball are more popular as a team sport than hockey for this reason. Hockey participation has been down in recent years where at one point it was something like 800,000 on an annual basis to less than 500,000 in the past few years. There's a reason why Canadian Tire went and created a charity for the purposes of thwarting this decrease. Soccer however has almost a million registered players in various league levels--and I am happy for that because gently caress hockey. Basketball and soccer require no extra equipment other than a field of play, some sort of net, and a ball--no equipment is needed other than athletic shoes. It costs hundreds of dollars to play hockey at a minimum. Soccer is for all intents and purposes more a national sport than hockey. Lain Iwakura fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Jul 5, 2016 |
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Look at all of the bitter poors who never learned how to backwards skate. Lacrosse would be a more popular national sport if it wasn't so drat hard to play. Having said that, ball hockey really ought to be more popular than it is. You can play on a basketball court or ice/roller rink, indoors or out. Minimal equipment is sticks and a net (preferably two), and some cheap poo poo $50 goalie set. And let's not kid ourselves, you want shin pads and socks for soccer and gloves if you're a goalie, along with some knee and/or elbow padding.
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This is why rugby is the one true sport. Some cleats, some tape and a willingness to kick people when they're down.
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namaste faggots posted:https://twitter.com/AdamZHerman/status/728317545460174849 Jaden, Brayden and Kaden, each spelled at least two different ways. There are no words.
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sure if you like sticking your head into another man's crotch
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