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ATTENTION!

URBAN Ratification Demands

Referendum Vote

WHEN: Tuesday October 17, 2023
@ 8:30am, 4:30pm and 8:00pm

WHERE: Polish Legion Branch #315
4 Solidarnosc Pl. Hamilton, ON.

Doors will open 30 minutes before each meeting.

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ATTENTION!

RSMC Ratification Demands

Referendum Vote

WHEN: Thursday October 19, 2023
@ 7:00pm

WHERE: Polish Legion Branch #315
4 Solidarnosc Pl. Hamilton, ON.

Doors will open at 6:30pm.

CLICK to download the Notice.

 

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By now many of you will have been asked to complete Canada Post's annual survey on how they're doing. The annual pat on the back management is seeking from us. This year they've decided to include time off the work floor and free food in some locations across the local in the hopes of extorting a sizable return on surveys. No doubt tied to their management bonuses.

It's another demeaning attempt to undermine the reality of the hardship, excessive expectations and lack of acknowledgement for the unhealthy and unsafe working conditions management is placing on us.
To compound the hypocrisy, management is now trying to blackmail us into completing the survey with the promise of $1000 to each office or work location if they get a 70% return on the surveys. Money allocated to the purchase of cosmetic upgrades of the work location. What a ridiculously transparent gesture to illicit a clearly biased response.
In Burlington Main area Manager Pam Noble actually commented that if 70% are returned from her zone she gets another $1000 which Canada Post will donate to a contract worker dealing with a serious medical issue. While, on the surface, it comes off as a considerate and heartfelt gesture, it is absolutely shameful for management to hold this over the heads of the workers to further a corporate agenda!!
How shameful that management would not have already donated this money to help this individual when they've just admitted to having the resources to do so!!!< br />
That management would actually be so callus as to not follow through on this if they don't get a 70% return is unbelievable! Why not just give these overworked and under appreciated contractors the rights and benefits they deserve in the first place?!?
I, for one, have never had a problem filling out their dissatisfaction surveys. If they want to give me an opportunity to reiterate their failings with respect to lack of rotation of duties, lack of staff, unsafe working conditions, defective equipment, overburdened workloads, ridiculous pace expectations, attendance harassment, etc., I'll take it and gladly sign my name to it without concern for anonymity.
For those members who haven't filled out a survey and intend to do so, tell Canada Post that dignity and justice are not for sale at any price!! Just do what's right!!!!

In Solidarity,
Terry Langley
1st Vice President
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Hamilton Local 548 September 23, 2008