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Here's a quote from the Canada post business newsletter they sent out today about the strike:
Edit: People who down voted this, why? It came directly from Canada Post, and shows just how little they consider their workers to be humans that deserve rights. The past 3 newsletters are all written with a huge "unions are bad and stifle progress" vibe, even though the union is just trying to protect the workers.
I didn't downvote you, but by quoting without an addition comment, your comment seems like it agrees with what Canada Post said.
If you included your "for an actual answer" self-reply as part of your original comment, you likely wouldn't've been down-voted in the same way.
Fair point, I just assumed that the excerpt I chose was clearly evil enough no one would mistake the top level comment for support.
The problem is that from a significant portion of online and in person commentary it seems people do take corporate press releases at face value. I'm a union worker myself and even some of my own coworkers fall into that trap, although fortunately they snap out of it when I remind them of the garbage our employer has tried to feed the public.