Spoiled Unions, Spoiled People

Most Canadians know about the postal strike that is currently happening. This is just another occasion to let my blood boil about this age of entitlement in which we currently reside.

From what I've read, the issues are mostly work safety (see picture at left), and a reduction of wage for new employees (thereby not affecting any of the current employees). You may be thinking that this is a reduction from an already low wage to minimum wage. You are wrong! It is a reduction from $24 an hour to $17.50! Can you believe it? That is for new employees. I don't know anyone who started making that kind of money when they were first hired. I say get rid of the union and let them hire those of us who would be delighted to make $17.50 an hour and deliver mail in "dangerous" situations. (That dangling mailbox my cut off my hand!)

The fact is, delivering mail is not a difficult job and shouldn't be rewarded as such. The guys who built your house don't make that much. Those poor people fighting for justice don't make nearly as much! Those people harvesting your food don't make even half as much. Why is the post so special? Oh yeah, UNION.

Weren't unions supposed to protect people from being taken advantage of? Well now they just switched roles. They have nothing better to do than see exactly how much money and benefits they can get for nothing. It's ridiculous beyond belief. With this current age of technology (and not to mention the future), the postal system is going to continue to decline and just won't have the capability to support these bogus paycheques for people driving around stuffing paper in mailboxes. If they don't smarten up, they'll lose their jobs anyway. Who knows! They might get stuck making minimum wage somewhere else. (Which until last month was exactly 1/3 of their starting wage).

The thing that pisses me off most, though, is the actual injustice that is thriving in the world, and yet we focus on the most trivial things. There are approximately 9-27 million current SLAVES in the world. There are hundreds of thousands of children being abducted and forced to act as soldiers, killing their own families and friends. There are the drug wars absolutely tearing apart Latin America. There is rampant starvation, exploitation and abuse of MILLIONS worldwide, and yet the people who deliver mail in Canada are whining because crooked mailboxes are "dangerous" (inconvenient), and they want a wage increase. It makes me sick.

But I guess they're not all bad. A Canada Post worker commented:

"Well it looks like the strike is still going ahead. I hope they all lose their jobs in the union. A lot of the workers don't want to strike. It is time these gastapos were dissolved in necessity occupations. No one in the public sector should have to be the kicking dog victim of these greedy individuals who gouge the small businesses. I have no sympathy for any of them. Quit your job if you aren't satisfied. This is communism."

Then again, that group only had 18 members...


DOWN WITH THE AGE OF ENTITLEMENT. LET US OPEN OUR EYES TO THE REAL PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD.