In the last few weeks, Canada Post workers started staging a series of rotating strikes across the country. They had been trying to negotiate with Canada Post management for quite a while on such matters as raises to cover the cost of living increases, sick leave etc. Essential services like social assistance cheques were still being delivered and mail was circulating, although slowly.
Canada Post responded by locking the workers out, thus shutting down the system completely.
Now Harper and his Con buddies have "stepped in" to order them back to work. With the "reverse Midas touch" that Harper has demonstrated so often and so well in the years he's occupied the throne, he has now caused negotiations to cease entirely.
Harper stepping in to fix anything is like setting an enraged bull elephant on the petunia beds, pretty much the same result of anything he and his colleagues have put their minds to (using the phrase loosely) in the last godawful five and a half years.
Bird and Fortune, two British comedians, discussed the privatization of the British post office in the early nineties, something that the howling nicompoops have avocated here in recent weeks.
Their conclusion? Privatizing the post office allows management to show their ruthlessness and greed, to say nothing of stupidity.
Ten minutes of wonderful dialogue.
Their site is here.
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These guys are always brilliant, Filo. The PO privatisation failed in the end due to sheer incompetence in Brown's government for whom it was government by fiasco at the end. It will be a long road back for the left in British politics due to Blair and Brown. Milliband is not the problem now but neither is he the solution. :)
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