If you are being negatively effected you should call your representative and petition them to settle with the union. Strikes disrupt systems by design, labour is the one resource available to the worker that can be meaningfully withheld.
Are you kidding striking during the busiest shipping season of the year is the best time to do it.
You realize hospital strikes and teacher strikes have happened before? This time of year being what it is makes the best possible time to strike
If they're that essential they should be paid what they're worth.
Well then maybe the government shouldn't have ignored the postal worker's needs?
How is that any different from say a protest causing traffic and detours, thus other people being late to work and/or feeling the effects? Are you okay with that?
That's why it's effective. See also: Protests that shut down a major street/event.
hmm maybe, but all of my Amazon packages have still come Canada Post as of late, may be different out east though
So should they continue working without a contract forever? The government has had ample time to settle up, the old contract expired a year ago.
Then they should be declared an essential service like the Police and give them the power that entails. Otherwise don't say they're essential then treat them as if they're not.
Not gonna pretend to know how their contract works exactly but my unions contract expired about 5 or so years ago, we've been chugging along without issue since then. It can work for more than a year for sure, definitely not ideal though.
Lol if you think the "higher ups" aren't taking orders from the government.
