DID YOU KNOW
*Out of 144 countries rated as safest place to visit, Canada ranked 9th. New Zealand ranked #1.
*Jerry Tapley has decided it is more important to make staffing easier for the supervisors than to allow relief carriers to pick by seniority. Because of this decision there will continue to be times when RLC's cannot change the pre-staffing that is being done on Wednesdays for the next week.
*Management at the LMPP is planning changes to Priority and PDSL without the input of the members. These changes will be major as in functions and start times. Apparently the treatment shown to the PO5's recently is now going to extend into other sections.
*Our members are starting to fight amongst themselves because the overtime is being eliminated in the LMPP by cross sectioning. Please remember that it is management that cross sections not our members. Direct your frustration to the appropriate people.
*Consultation will be occurring shortly for Christmas operations, annual bids, and annual leave bidding.
*There are fewer sheets of toilet paper in one double roll than in two singles.
*That Article 27.09 of the Collective Agreement allows for leave without pay for a period of up to three months if requested by a group 2 employee for good and sufficient cause.
*That on February 1, 2010, we will receive a 65 cent raise in wages.
*That WW1, WW2, Korean war, Viet Nam war, and the Afghanistan mission has resulted in 114,421 Canadian casualties. On November 11, take time to remember. See you at the cenotaph.
*That J.K. Rowling was on welfare until she conceived the Harry Potter idea, while on a train between Manchester and London, England. She now has a net worth of over a billion dollars U.S.
* The London Local Executive has a combined total of 155 years of CPC experience.
* The London Local has had to file 53 special leave grievances and 55
attendance interview grievances so far in the year 2009.
* C.U.P.W. members deliver mail to a country that has 9,984,670 square kilometers of territory.
* November has more than 30 days. It is actually 30 days and 1 hour due to
conversion to Eastern Standard Time.
* According to the Ottawa Sun, Moya Greene is eligible for a salary of $641,000
or $1,756.16 per day 365 days per year.
* Here are some scary figures for the modern Post being implemented
in Winnipeg.
Currently the staffing level at the plant there is:
246...............PO-4's
1...................PO-2
68..................PO-5's
67..................Part Time PO-4's
382 Employees in total.
After all the machines are up and running and the staffing is complete.
(Starts in April 2010)
222..............PO-4's
1..................PO-2
30.................PO-5's
58.................Part Time PO-4's
311 Employees in total.
71 lost jobs or 19%. That translates to around 45 positions here in London when we are modernized.
*According to CPC the heaviest mail volume depot per carrier is Depot 6 with 259,520 pieces per carrier per year
The rest rank in the order of D1 – 212,481, D4 – 203,540, D3 – 199,018, and D5 – 196,940
* Despite Canada Post telling us volumes are down, their own data says there was a 15% increase in volume from the last 6 months in 2008 to the first 6 months in 2009. Why are they still using that excuse when they delete another position in the processing plant?
City wide volumes for July – Dec 08 25,649,777 42.7% of 12 month total
City wide volumes for Jan – June 09 34,439,169 57.3% of 12 month total
*Moya Greene says we need to cut 250 million from the budget as CPC is handing out almost the same amount in CTI payments. Doesn’t that look a bit like the U.S. bank executives who paid themselves a bonus after receiving bailout money! Your reward for doing a good job is $1,500 and they will make you work harder by cutting more jobs.
$1,500 x 46,000 members = $69,000,000
Approximate bonuses higher pay schedules = $50,000,000
2009 and 2010 at 119 million per year = 238 million
*Moya says the biggest problem and expense Canada Post is faced with is the injured workers. When the Union suggests that modern post will increase the number of injuries as it has in other countries the corporation ignores us. Isn’t that setting the company up to fail?
*Since June 2008 there have been more than 1475 grievances filed by the London Local. The majority being issues the corporation could have resolved if they wished to.
*C.U.P.W. was the first national union to negotiate maternity leave for working women.
*A labour lawyer from a prominent Toronto firm made the comment that “the C.U.P.W. Collective Agreement was like gold” in the way it protects our membership.
*Canada Post invited the Union to it’s open forum meetings with the workers then kicked the union representatives out when they wanted to ask questions.
*Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers in the major urban centres have finally got relief carriers available to cover their absences. Canada Post is now responsible for covering the routes when the carrier is off work.
*Canada Post wants access to your pension plan so they can invest the money into
the modern post. The same plans that will cut 10,000 or more CUPW jobs. Less
money in the plan and less people contributing...............is that good business sense?
*Our wages would have increased each year we negotiated sick benefits. Now that the
corporation wants to take away our sick benefits they don't want to give anything in return.
*When asked after her first year of CEO what Moya thought was her greatest accomplishment
she responded with "hiring more supervisors".
No group 1 position that becomes vacant because of transfers or retirement will be staffed
unless the local management can prove to Ottawa why they need the position.