RISE UP OR FALL TO ASHES PART 2

Canada Post would have you believe the future of our post office is in jeopardy.  That the erosion of letter mail, coupled with increasing wages, benefits, the instability in the global markets, and escalations in operational costs will force them to protect their interests.  The Corporation will smother us in a blanket of never-ending cut backs in jobs and service.

The constant and systematic reduction of service to the public will soon transform our manufactured economic crisis into a reality.  In turn, our customers will suffer immeasurably.  These service cutbacks we have been forced to bare pre-date us and have rattled postal installations across the world.  Corporations are now resorting to acts of desperation in order to survive by beseeching their respective governments to intervene by requesting deregulation.  Don’t be fooled, this highly overt tactic is solely intended to strengthen the linings of the already deep pockets of senior management folk.  It is only a matter of time.  And not much time.  When things start to go bad, when the employer is exposed, they will appear as if they are waving a sword at a tidal wave.  Canada Post could plunge into financial ruins. This has been decades in the making.

Notwithstanding the above mentioned atrocities, Canada Post’s blatant and obvious attempts to disdainfully manipulate our anticipated future are to subvert and thwart our understanding of what lies ahead.  This was, and is designed to ensure that fear and obedience remains encrypted in the minds of the workers, while CPC’s senior management enjoys the sweet rewards of lavish bonuses from their decadent lairs. Like the lions of Africa, they feast on the carcass of Canada Post, ensuring they get their fill, while members of junior management circle like vultures awaiting the scraps.  In 2013, seven thousand four hundred and two (7402) members of Canada Post Management received a bonus.

In the interim, the workers are the people who are responsible for the majority of the work that has allowed this corporation to enjoy the sweet rewards of eighteen (18) years of financial prosperity.  We, the workers, gave this company the sweat off our brows – with years of dedication and hard work.  For the most of us, we limp along with broken and worn-out bodies.  It would be safe to say we all share the dream of retiring with a sense of dignity and our health.  To feel pride in a life spent providing a valued service to our fellow workers, our neighbors, our friends, and our families.  To pass on a job to the future that is consistent with the one we left behind.  Instead, we are rewarded with peonage, forced to suffer increasingly overburdened workloads, job reductions, harassment, and bullying. This corporation’s greed has no limits.

This is a bleak future.  How will we cope with this manufactured decline?  Will we cling to the ridiculous dreams of a brilliant tomorrow, or will we come to terms with our responsibility to hold this corporate mafia accountable?  Will we seek to radically transform our system into one that protects service, financial prosperity, and the long-term viability of our jobs, or will we step aside and watch our future disintegrate?  The choice remains clear.

Rise up or fall to ashes.

In Solidarity,
Chis Zukowsky
Education Director

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