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jmomccxx wrote: It refers to when there are uncovered sections and no one volunteers to do them. I've only seen it maybe 5 times over the last year but every depot is different i guess.
Ok that’s what I thought. Rarely happens where I am. It’s been ages.
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jmomccxx wrote: Could they strike the depots on strike today until noon tomorrow? Would we start at noon?
Back to work legislation kicks in at noon eastern. For the next 16 hours the union could call whatever strikes it wants. They could extend everything currently on strike (or go national) until noon, who knows. At our depot the IA's won't be getting in until 6 AM and there won't be any trucks arriving until at least 7:30. It should be a great day for wave 1!
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Never seen forced OT. In all cases Sups always told me to take as much as I can, what I couldn’t take would be taken by temps.
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mikebc wrote: Back to work legislation kicks in at noon eastern. For the next 16 hours the union could call whatever strikes it wants. They could extend everything currently on strike (or go national) until noon, who knows. At our depot the IA's won't be getting in until 6 AM and there won't be any trucks arriving until at least 7:30. It should be a great day for wave 1!
Oh damn lol I’m all confused. It’s EST. Lol my bad :facepalm:
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trellaine201 wrote: Hey mikebc, what happens if YVR and your area are listed as striking tomorrow, up until 12 noon? I could see mike and his childish colleagues doing this.

Does that mean people HAVE to show up mid shift? Hmmmm
yea this is what i want to know. Edit... ah Eastern time. so, I would be starting an hour late.
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I think they'd have to show up and "complete their shift". There would be nothing there to take out though. It's probably cheaper for CP to lock us out if that was the case.
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mikebc wrote: I think they'd have to show up and "complete their shift". There would be nothing there to take out though. It's probably cheaper for CP to lock us out if that was the case.
I don't think they can lock us out, right?
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I'm sure they won't but that doesn't mean they can't. It would look awfully bad for them if they did.
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It’s obvious that nobody would be at the picket lines tomorrow, everyone would be arriving at 12pm, 1st and 2nd wave fighting for cases and spare cases, and docks... it’s gonna be fun!!
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So Mike and his negotiators say “Under the new legislation, the union said postal workers will be forced to go back to work under the old collective agreement, which it asserted would result in at least 315 disabling injuries and thousands of hours of forced, unpaid overtime.”

What does he mean by “thousands of hours of forced, unpaid overtime”????????

Who works for free? Am I missing something. Or is he referring to the rural routers even though he doesn’t say That?
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SpeedyLC wrote: It’s obvious that nobody would be at the picket lines tomorrow, everyone would be arriving at 12pm, 1st and 2nd wave fighting for cases and spare cases, and docks... it’s gonna be fun!!
Brothers and sisters never fight do they??
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jmomccxx wrote: I don't think they can lock us out, right?
No. Old contract is back in effect until the arbitrator rules....
Sometimes the truth hurts. The other times it hurts worse....
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Is CUPW having a tantrum?
Put everything on strike right before the legislation comes into effect.
What are they trying to achieve other than delaying everyone's mail for another day?

On the bright side, I am probably getting some hearty overtime tomorrow night at the plant.
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Mike can relax now, and not to worry thanks to his assinine union CMBs will replace door to door and all those disabling injuries will decrease.
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leyland1989 wrote: Is CUPW having a tantrum?
Put everything on strike right before the legislation comes into effect.
What are they trying to achieve other than delaying everyone's mail for another day?

Oh the bright side, I am probably getting some hearty overtime tomorrow night at the plant.
Yea, seems pretty petty.
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trellaine201 wrote: So Mike and his negotiators say “Under the new legislation, the union said postal workers will be forced to go back to work under the old collective agreement, which it asserted would result in at least 315 disabling injuries and thousands of hours of forced, unpaid overtime.”

What does he mean by “thousands of hours of forced, unpaid overtime”????????

Who works for free? Am I missing something. Or is he referring to the rural routers even though he doesn’t say That?
Rsmc's. If their route is set up as a "4 hour route" and it takes them 6 hours, they still only get paid for 4. Pretty amazing for this day and age, isn't it? And with the Xmas season upon us, you can be even more sure that they will be working for free....
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stalbert1 wrote: Brothers and sisters never fight do they??
Omg 25 years and what is brothers and sisters?? I have two brothers , they live in ON and I have no sisters.

Union is so old fashioned.
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timetotellthetruth wrote: Rsmc's. If their route is set up as a "4 hour route" and it takes them 6 hours, they still only get paid for 4. Pretty amazing for this day and age, isn't it? And with the Xmas season upon us, you can be even more sure that they will be working for free....
Awww okay. Mike should have mentioned that.
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They can't legally lock us out, and obviously they won't, but it would be pretty hilarious if the corporation was the one to defy the legislation at this point, just out of spite.
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From the bulletin:
Going back to work under the old collective agreements means that between now and the holidays:

At least 315 disabling injuries will happen to postal workers;
Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMC) will work roughly 250,000 hours without pay;
Urban postal workers will work thousands of hours of forced overtime;
RSMCs will continue to be treated, as Canada Post calls it, with “equity but not equality”.
8,000 RSMC positions, implying that they will each work 31.25 hours of OT for free. (90 days = 13 weeks = 26 weekends = 64 working days) by 31.25 is half an hour a day. Ehh, plausible but unlikely. <-- ignore this

20 working days until Christmas, not 90. So the bulletin implies that EACH RSMC IN CANADA WILL WORK.. an hour and a half of OT, everyday, for free, from now until Christmas. Piss off.

RSMC's can also track their weekly parcels and apply for payment top-ups based on if they're over volume. LC's can't.

edits: nevermind, the bulletin says between "now and the holidays". I did maths for 90 days (the duration of the legislation before arbitration).
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