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The continuity afforded by the workers continuing to work after their employment contract is up so they can "negotiate in good faith for a renewal without service interruption" is going to end. Employers will need to ensure business continuity despite a workforce that is absolutely out the door on the last day of the contract.

Who here expects to come to work the moment they don't have a work contract? not me!

And, for those keeping score, the postal workers' contract ended a year to the day before the strike. The employer had a full year on top of any prep work they must've been doing before then - heh heh - to hammer out a deal that they thought would keep skilled workers working.

You know what that would look like, if workers were escorted offsite the moment their employment contract ended? Well, it'd look like I.T and business. No workers, no mail (unlike now where critical stuff still goes).

It'd kinda look like this except a bit worse: staff would need to be trained, background-checked, organized and managed (by inexperienced leads). Usually union pay is lower than every comparable job, so staff would have, on average, less potential.

In short, a union strike a fucking year after their contract ran out is only a taste of what it should look like if and when unions can't bargain in good faith toward a working goal, like they were doing here for a full year even after the contract ran out and they continued service without interruption, and they just absolutely walk off the site like every other job, where this kind of mail stoppage lasts for months and months before being effective again.

If Justin - and definitely when Milhouse mcPoutyPuss does - mandates staff back to work, an abrupt and seen-for-3-years walkout when the contract is over that will impair the post for months is what we should expect. Yay!

And this is happily hiding the fact that Canada Post is no more a for-profit business than the Ministry for Children and Families.