Letter to the editor
As a former employee with 30 years service and a current Canada Post retiree, I feel a need to express my utter disappointment with the never ending and currently ongoing labour dispute at the corporation.
Canada Post is an organization that is overburdened with entitlement at the highest corporate level and a myriad of levels of management that are quite frankly inept.
An entire restructuring of the organization needs to occur as soon as possible and that should happen with the ministry that oversees the corporation taking the necessary measures to reduce the number of top level executives and their remuneration. Also to call the public’s attention to the fact that these individuals are the ones responsible for the so-called business decisions that have resulted in the dire financial situation that currently exists there.
The flip side with regards to the day-to-day operations of the business from the union’s perspective is that they need to understand the importance of the viability and future success of the corporation for their membership and for all of the former employees now receiving pensions.
I began my 30-year employment with the corporation as a part-time employee working weekends for five years before becoming full time, and I see nothing wrong with allowing that situation to continue in order to permit seven-day delivery to compete with the reality of the situation in front of us.
That is only one of the so-called sticking points but it is not realistic to argue that it is not necessary.
Bruce Toohy, Invermere
