They call em' the most militant union in Canada for reasons like this. While it only lasted an hour, it worked. The unionized employees walked off the job to protest the fact that management had taken three months to take any action on workload grievances. So when management doesn't act, the union takes things into their own hands. The postal workers have once again illustrated that collective action works. Within the hour, Canada Post management promised to bring in additional staff to help the over-burdened sorters.
The media is claiming that this incident represents bringing back the militant days of Jean Claude Perrot. Brothers and sisters, bring back the Flint Sitdown if necessary.
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I love CUPW, we need more unions like them.
Whereas CUPE reps would have consulted with the union lawyer and advised the members to file a grievance.
This is direct action by the workers ignoring the managements rights clause in the contract which exists to limit this kind of wobble of the job. That is it halts workers from direct action, in favour of bureaucratic solutions.
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