On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:47 PM, John Celio <[email protected]> wrote: > Not that this will change anyone's mind, but I'd like to note that the > two USPS mail carriers and three UPS drivers that I deal with at home > and work are generally all quite reliable. > > On the other hand, my brother's mother-in-law got a job with the USPS > and was frequently harassed by coworkers and given as little work as > possible until she finally quit. She and some other former mail > carriers filed a lawsuit, but it was thrown out (I don't know the > reason). According to her, postal workers are extremely protective of > their jobs and vindictive if you cross them. While I have not seen this > behavior myself, I don't doubt it exists to some extent. It is probably > easy to find such behavior in many workplaces, really, especially > service-based jobs.
Over the past 20 or 30 years, one of Canada's most militant unions has been the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). We've had more than our share of nation-wide postal strikes (almost always, it seems, around Christmas - more than a co-incidence?), but local wildcats are quite common as well. They, too, seem very protective of their jobs - then again, who wouldn't be? I guess I'm just saying that the behaviour that she saw is not just restricted to the USA. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
