The company wants to make new hires wait a year before they receive benefits, and to exclude them from the defined-benefit pension plan. Meanwhile the starting wage has risen only 6.7 percent since 2006.
  • healthetank@lemmy.ca
    37·
    1 month ago

    Good for them! That’s one of the big moves to try and break up unions - a two tier system that pits the union against its own members

  • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
    101·
    1 month ago

    Why are they hiring? Didn’t the automated sorting stations work out? /S

  • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
    6·
    28 days ago

    New posties make $19/hour. They are constantly overworked and moved from route to route, never getting a chance to learn a route which would make the job a lot easier.

    With all the bluster about how the strike affects small business, this part is often left out along with the CEO bonuses they pay.