Mood:  a-ok

Within this blog, there are many entries on CUPW/CPC negotiations.

I have supported "The Corporate Team Incentive"(i.e. CTI bonus system) from the start. If you want to check out my rationale and arguments on this issue, please go through my blog entries of the last three months. 

Here's a brief summary of my reasons for voting "yes" to the proposed contract:

1. Very soon air mail products from and to Canada Post will have to be scanned and delivered on time in order to receive payment. It helps if employees are on board with this operation in order to process air mail parcels quickly. If employees(i.e. CUPW members), get a bonus for meeting delivery targets, it's highly likely that profits will continue to go up and we'll get part of this "Corporate Team Incentive Bonus" that only management gets now. If the incentive isn't there, delivery targets could be missed which could cost Canada Post millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars. There would be pressure to cut back on our benefits, wages and full time jobs. Sections of the Post Office could be privatized which would result in job losses and a worse work environment. With job security, high wages are not an incentive for posties to work hard or even work at all. You get paid just for showing up. How is management suppose to meet its delivery targets when many posties only care about their pay checks and nothing else? 

2. The Corporate Team Incentive has been around for a long time. Three other unions have accepted it already. I discussed the CTI bonus system with some APOC members and they were quite satisfied with it.

3. The wage increase is practically the same as PSAC and APOC wage  increases. However, the 2.75% in the last two years of the proposed agreement look better than 2.5% for four years.
4. Whether we like it or not, the CTI program has been in place for some time and management has profited from it while CUPW members haven't.
5. Arguments against the CTI bonus system would be probably look ridiculous in the press or on the floor of parliament.
6. The recent wage increase in the U.S. postal service was about 1.6% over four years.
7. It appears the National Executive Board of CUPW has been weakened by lack of support from some local unions. The odds of achieving more in collective bargaining at this point are slim and none.
8. I believe that management and CUPW executives will try to make the CTI bonus system work well over the next few years to win the hearts and minds of non-believing posties.

Be Willing To Negotiate Anything

CUPW Toronto Local