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    Die Medienberichterstattung über den Canada-Post-Streik stellt Geschäftsinteressen in den Mittelpunkt, nicht die Interessen der Arbeitnehmer

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    1. UnionGuyCanada on

      Why would workers matter? CBC has been having doom layers on constantly saying how only complete revamp of Canada Post will save it. Need to go part time, mail a day a week, maybe two. Cut, cut , cut.

        No space for workers, just corporate profits, once they gut it and sell it off.

        The Union? They expect a raise that gets them back to where they were before massive cost of living increases gutted them. They want to bring more services to underserviced areas. No one on the profit side wnats that. Canada Post would deliver them at cost, not for the massive profits the rich are making now, as they squeeze every cent out of the poor and the ever shrinking middle class.

    2. dekuweku on

      When an Essential or major Service Threatens to Strike media coverage is pretty formulaic

      >Summary of Disagreements between the parties, usually a note on how long workers have been out of a contract

      > sound bytes from employer saying they can’t afford it, sound bytes from union saying the membership needs more money/benefits/wants to keep what they have

      > Impacts to business

      > Impacts to indidviduals

      > Impacts on workers striking (rare)

      > Street reporting on how people ‘feel’ about workers going on strtke to demand higher wages/benefits or often simply to hold the line to defend and avoid two tiering the workers (usually you get the most stupid takes shown because it grabs attention

      This is repeated daily or semi-frequently as the strike drags on updating the segments on the impacts to business/individuals

      It’s designed to numb the public to apathy or make them turn against the strikers. Because impacts to business is usually treated as a human interest story.

    3. Impressive_East_4187 on

      Unfortunately they’re striking at the absolute worst time.

      Unemployment is up, COL is insane, people are not viewing this on the side of the worker. Asking for 20% when other people’s contracts aren’t getting renewed, or a headline shows job cuts of 1000 or 5000 workers doesn’t breed sympathy from the general public. Furthermore, youth unemployment is at GFC levels or higher, so good luck getting sympathy from traditional left-leaning voter blocs.

      We’re in hard times, and those times are about to get much much harder so it’s no surprise Joe Public is not interested in the plight of unionized employees asking for egregious wage hikes – even if they can be mathematically justified.

    4. FunDog2016 on

      “All good, nothing to see here except Union Workers behaving badly!” Said, all the Oligarchs in unison. Amazingly, that is repeated by the Corporate Media they own! We are all shocked.

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