Stephen Harper is a Compulsive Liar

Eventually Stephen Harper's lies are going to catch up with him. No lie can live forever. We've made it pretty clear that Harper's back to work legislation is not back to work legislation, it's pension theft legislation.

Canada Post locked out their employees for voting 94.5% against the theft of their pensions and Canada Posts contempt for health and Safety. Yet Harper boasts "The government stood behind the back-to-work bill, saying that small business and other organizations like charities were being choked out by the mail dispute." That is an offensive lie.

Harper doesn't give a rat's ass about small business. His HST crippling the restaurant industry trying to pull it's way out of a recession is proof of that. Harper only cares about the big corporations that exploits workers and send jobs overseas. That does not help Canadians or the Canadian economy. Harper is a liar.

Charities? Harper rewards Canada Post for bringing the mail to a grinding halt and somehow twists that indisputable fact with the insane claim that his pension theft legislation is someone in support of charities? That is an offensive lie.

Denis Lemelin said the government’s assertion that its legislation was necessary to protect the economy is illogical. He said postal workers had offered to return to work. “The government has attacked our right to freely negotiate the conditions we work under,” said Lemelin.

Remember how Harper screwed Newfoundland which cause their Conservative Premier to launch an anything but conservative campaign against him? Well Harper has done it again. He's screwed Newfoundland again after tricking them by claiming he's help fund a hydroelectric dam in Newfoundland which caused them to stop their boycott.

He's closing the province's maritime rescue centre. The demonstration was organized by a coalition headed by provincial labour unions, and organizers estimated that about 2,000 people took part, including many local and provincial politicians.

"We rely on search and rescue every single day to save the people that we love at a time of distress," said Jones. "We're asking Stephen Harper to not put a price on the lives of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians."

The premier, however, said that Harper rejected a plan that would split costs between the province and Ottawa to keep the centre going. The federal agency maintains that public safety will not be put at risk by the closure.

The demonstration comes only a day after a man was pulled dead from the waters about 60 kilometres east of St. Anthony, N.L. Four other men, who were working on a fishing vessel that was in distress, were rescued.

The search and rescue operation was started after a call was made to St. John's Marine Search and Rescue station. A helicopter from Gander was used, in addition to coast guard vessels from St. Anthony and St. John's.

Canada Post Locks out Employees

So how does this work? Lock out your employees then get a Harper majority to legislate them back to work with a legislated contract. That seems so Stalin.

Canada Post wanted to steal the employees pension. The employees voted 94.5% against the treasonous plot. Canada Post had an agenda and refused to budge. The Union started rotating strikes. The mail still went through but it was a symbolic gesture objecting to their obsessive roll backs after 16 years of consecutive profit.

Canada Post claimed mail volumes were down and started alternate day delivery. Then they saw this wasn't going to accomplish their goal of stealing the employees pensions so they decided to lock them out and get a legislated settlement allowing them to steal the employees pensions. That is sad.

Then they throw in the we don't want to be a burden on the tax payer lie. Canada Post has made a steady profit for 16 years. Canada Post has not been a burden on the tax payer during that time. Instead, Canada Post has been a cash cow for the government paying record tax and dividends.

Privatizing Canada Post like they want to will lose that tax revenue. Privatizing Canada Post to their friends like the BC Rail scandal will force an increase in taxes to compensate for the lost tax revenue. It's time Canada Post stop lying. Clear cutting profitable jobs from the Canadian economy is a bad precedent for everyone.

Canada Post will profit from labour peace

Those were the immortal words of former CUPW National President Dale Clark: "Canada Post will profit from labour peace." Indeed they have. Yet he was also right when he said just because Canada Post makes a profit, doesn't mean they will be fair and responsible to it's employees. How true.

In times of record profits Canada Post now wants to steal pensions and dramatically roll back wages and benefits for the next generation of employees. That will not help the future Canadian economy. It will only help to clear cut the jobs from Canada and force us to increase taxes to compensate for the lost tax revenue.

So now we hear Canada Post complain that the rotating strike is costing them millions. Then why did they refuse the union's offer to return to work? Because they want to provoke a strike then get back to work legislation and an imposed settlement from a Harper majority. Their con is simply theft driven by lies.

Deepak Chopra and Deepak Patel

Right after Moya Greene derailed Canada Post Deepak Chopra was hired as CEO of Canada Post February 1st 2011. In less than three months Deepak Chopra contracted out 300 call centre jobs at Antigonish, Fredericton, Winnipeg, Edmonton and Ottawa to a company that specializes in outsourcing jobs to India.

If I was from Ireland and if I became CEO of Canada Post then shipped those same jobs to Ireland that would be a conflict of interest. Canada Post is a public service. Yet these corporate entities are determined to remove public accountability entirely from public services and give up our sovereignty to corporate machinations.

We were shocked and ashamed TELUS contracted out Canadian jobs in a time of record profit. Yet Canada Post has made steady increased profits for 16 years. This is not the time to clear cut the Canadian economy.

Moya Greene thinks the public is stupid. Her mandate is to remove public accountability from public services at all costs. She will even go so far as to lay of sales staff so she can complain about lost revenue so she can justify privatization. This is treason.

Moya Greene is a Nutbar

Take a look at this picture. I did not photoshop it at all. This is what Moya Greene chose to wear and the background she chose to address the world on a Youtube video. It's no wonder mental health is her charity of choice. That's not a sari. It looks like the living room drapes. This isn't the Sound of Music. It's the sound of one hand clapping. Moya Greene giving herself a standing ovation.

The Royal Mail is preparing to slash nearly 40,000 jobs over the next five years as it seeks to combat the inexorable decline in postal volumes and privatisation. That's one in four workers.

The postal operator has already agreed a three-year deal with the Communication Workers Union to cut headcount by 8,000 a year until 2013. But Moya Greene, who became chief executive last July after leaving Canada Post, is expected to drive through a further 15,000 by 2016.

Come on England! That woman is a freaking nut bar! Look at what she did to Bombardier! Look at the mess she created with Canada Post then ran away from.

David Cameron is a psychopath. Privatizing the Queens mail? Have you no self respect? Liberating all public programs from State control? That is the Devil's lie so it is. Removing public accountability and handing over our own sovereignty to multinational corporations?

Where on earth is Winston Churchill because this is a worse assault on British Sovereignty than Adolf Hitler. Only this assault is a treasonous plot from within. Maggie what have we done? What happened to the post war dream? There are two suns in the sunset alright and one of them is England. Rise up my English Rose. Remember remember the fifth of November. Are we not King's men?

God Save the Queen. Help Stop Moya Greene.



Ulster Says No to Moya Greene.

Rise up Rose, Thistle and Dragon. Wave your Flag.

Canada Post Employees Strike Back

Canada Post is determined to steal the employees pensions and sick leave and completely wreck havoc on the work floor. As a result the employees voted 94.5% to reject their dastardly scheme.

Nevertheless, the Union has been determined to negotiate and has kept putting off a full strike. Yet Canada Post won't budge. They rather lie in press releases and send fake business reps to try and sway public opinion to believe stealing pensions is good for the country. That is sad.

As a result the Union has finally served it's 72 hour strike notice. It will be rotational strikes starting midnight tonight in Winnipeg for 24 hours then rotate somewhere else. This means the mail will still continue and the rotational strike is more of a symbolic exercise to show how the employees not just the Union are opposed to such drastic roll backs.

The declining mail volume is a fallacy. Routes are structured by mail volume. If the mail volume of a route goes down, that route becomes longer so the employee does more work to make up for it.

The Union chose Winnipeg as the place to start the rotational strike because that was the source of the pilot project which has destroyed the profitable functioning postal system and replaced it with absolute chaos. Moncton was the next place they tried to implement that insane system. However, since the drastic changes resulted in chaos they lost an arbitration which halted the insanity temporarily.

Now Canada Post wants to change key words in the existing contract to allow them to implement that chaos unilaterally and the employees have voted 94.5% against it. The union has agreed to deliver welfare and pension cheques during the labour dispute.

Canada Post: Still lying after all these years

I was always shocked at the outright lies Canada Post got away with telling the media. Canada Post would say something absolutely false and the media would repeat it simply because Canada Post said it and there was absolutely no consequences whatsoever for lying to the media.

Evey round of contract negotiations Canada Post would send out a press release and say that horrible union has so many demands it would cost us millions of dollars to pay for all their demands. This round they are saying it again only that perpetual compulsive lie has become so absurd it is now offensive.

Canada Post is Demanding the employees take huge roll backs again. They already stole the employees severance pay. Now they want to steal their pensions and their sick leave. That is offensive. Someone in some office had the bright idea that if they did away with pensions and sick leave they would save a lot of money. So here's the math. Canada Post makes an absurd and offensive demand saying that they want to steal sick time, steal pensions and greatly roll back wages for new employees. They calculate how much money their roll backs could save then they tell the media that the Union's offer of maintaining the status quo will cost them $1.4 billion. Billion!?

The Union wants the status quo. The Corporation wants huge roll backs. The Union objects and Canada Post tries and makes it sound like the Union is asking for more things that will cost over a billion of dollars. That is an absurd lie and because it rationalizes their plan to steal sick leave and steal pensions it is an offensive lie.

What has Moya Greene really done?

Winnipeg Pilot Project disaster

Moncton Arbitration Decision

Catherine not too Swift

Put on your Game Face

Catherine not too Swift

Well, Catherine not too Swift from the Empire Strikes Back Club strikes again. She wrote a letter to the new CEO of Canada Post telling her to save money by stealing sick time and stealing pensions. Brilliant. Pensions are sacred. Stealing pensions is wrong bobblehead.





Catherine the Wise vs Catherine not too Swift. Two different worlds. Catherine Austin Fitts is good at business. Catherine not too Swift is not. Catherine not too Swift is a bobblehead scoundrel who wants to steal public pensions. Catherine Austin Fitts is a saint who wants to save the economy.

Canada Post Contracts out Call Centres

Well this is kind of a surprise. Canada Post just gave out Easter lay off notices for employees in call centres at Winnipeg, Ottawa, Fredericton and Antigonish. The work is going to a private company called Minacs that specializes in outsourcing and off shore call centres.

Bruce Simmonds, the CEO of call centre company Minacs stepped aside at Minacs into an advisory role in 2007, the year after his brother filed an application against Minacs. Janet Ecker, a former provincial finance minister for the Harris governement and a Minacs director, is one of the individuals named in the suit.

Minacs specialty is "Outsourcing Business Solutions." They're full of BS alright. They reduce call centres in Canada and then shut them down. Moya Greene would be proud. I thought we were looking at anti terrorist legislation in Canada? This corporate terrorism kills Canadian jobs.

Aditya Birla Nuvo is a $24-billion conglomerate based in Mumbai, India. The larger firm bought 90 per cent of Minacs, founded by the late Elaine Minacs, in 2006, and established it as a subsidiary of the larger company.

Deepak Patel joined Aditya Birla Minacs as the CEO in September 2008. Aditya Birla Minacs acquires UK based Compass BPO. That would be Business Process Outsourcing in the UK. So Moya Greene goes to England to privatize and destroy the Royal Mail while the company Canada Post sells it's call centres to is an outsourcing company in India that is now outsourcing jobs in the UK. Why does that not surprise me?

Looks like more public demonstrations are on the way over this kind of corporate terrorism. No wonder Canada Post just had a 94.5% strike vote. Maximize Revenue and Minimize Costs while you throw customer service out the window.

The outsourcing industry can be a catalyst for this new stage of India's growth. But what about customer service and the economies of Canada, US and the UK? Stocks rise when jobs are outsourced because investors get their services for less money. Yet that destroys the country's economy and tax revenue where the revenue is taken from and the jobs stolen. This is why we need public accountability in a democratic system. The large corporations do not care about destroying local economies if they can make a quick buck.

Canadian Postal Workers 94.5% strike vote

The media reports that Canadian Postal Workers "may" go on strike after the results of a 94.5% strike vote. This clearly shows us two things: The employees at Canada Post are not happy with the unprecedented roll backs the Corporation demands they absorb and the Union is still being very reasonable about the disagreement. They still want a negotiated settlement.

You always get some people that will vote to strike and some that will vote not to strike no matter what the issues are on the table. A 94.5% strike vote is huge. The union states the concerns are: "The corporation wants to pay new employees 30 percent less. It wants to reduce their benefits, weaken their job security and provide an inferior pension. It also wants to attack retiree benefits, sick leave and turn back the clock on many other contract provisions."

So once again we have 16 years of consistent profit and huge roll backs from the Corporation just because. One of the pinnacle problems is route measurement. Moya Greene's last act of terrorism at Canada Post before she left to destroy the Royal Mail in England was to turn a profit making dividend paying company into one that was $2.5 billion in debt. Instantly.

Borrowing a huge amount of money to buy machines that would greatly increase the workload and eliminate a huge number of positions in an economic recession. That is Moya's Madness. Creating more unemployment during a recession is not wise. Neither is throwing away tax revenue but what can I say, that's Moya Greene.

The problem is the insane way Canada Post is insisting the new rules be followed to implement the new sortation machines. The new rules are absolutely insane and have completely wrecked havoc in Winnipeg which was the test model for the new system.

The Union won a grievance in Moncton stopping the insane rules. It comes as no surprise the Corporation is now demanding key words in the collective agreement be changed so they can reverse the Moncton decision and implement their insane rules just because. Destroying a good job and destroying a good pension is bad business.

Sales are down at the Royal Mail

Well Moya Greene is at it again. I suppose we shouldn't be surprised yet it's so disheartening. Someone from the UK posted on my blog about Moya Greene being a virtual axe murder. He claimed that Moya Greene has already laid off his wife at the Royal Mail. She worked in sales. Nice Christmas present Moya.

My first response was the adage that Moya Greene has no concept of business revenue. If you cut all your services you will reduce your business revenue. I bumped into a former coworker at the Post Office the next day. I told him about Moya Greene laying off sales staff in the UK. His response was automatic.

Of course. They want to privatize it. They lay off the sales staff and then complain sales are down so they'll have to privatize. He's right. We know their MO here. Now they are doing the same thing in England. They are killing profits which will rationalize them privatizing it so they can avoid being publicly accountable.

There are some people who are so opposed to publicly owned anything they will spend billions of taxpayers dollars to privatize public services just so it is private not public. This political group has two sections. One section believes that the private sector is more financially responsible than the public sector and can do a better job at making a profit than the public sector. They are primarily concerned with profits. They don't want a publicly run service to be a cost burden on the public.

The other group are crude business sharks who covet the huge salaries of private sector CEOs at the public expense. They flatter the others with talk of profits but they are simply interested in circumventing public accountability. They are not concerned with what's in the public interest.

Take Moya Greene for example. She claims the private sector doesn't want to be told anything by the public and sees the public as stupid in the area of downsizing, implementing new technology, and strategic planning. Turning a profit making tax paying revenue creating corporation into a hollow shell billions in debt is not strategic planning.

Those are lies to convince the other section of the privatization group that circumventing public accountability by killing profits is somehow a good thing.

Take note England: Moya Greene is laying off sales staff so she can then complain sales are down and privatize the Royal Mail. It's sabotage.



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What has Moya Greene really done?

The Vancouver local of CUPW posted a really good article about Moya Greene's departure from Canada Post. A lot of bent spin doctors like to pretend Moya Greene is good at business when we know that is simply false. She is just a one trick pony.

She is, in essence, an axe murderer who cuts jobs viciously with no thought or plan on how to build business revenue. The common misconception is if the headlines read jobs were cut then shareholders will jump for joy and stock will rise which is not the case in a service based industry. In a service based industry, if you slash all your services you will reduce your business revenue.

So let's take a step back and look at what Moya Greene has really done to Canada Post. The Vancouver local pointed out the simple truth that cannot be escaped. Before Moya Greene came to Canada Post it was a vibrant business that consistently made profit and consistently paid large amounts of dividends and Corporate tax to the government which increased the government's tax base. Canada Post was in essence a cash cow for the government.

In one sweeping movement with her axe she turned a profit making company into a company that was $2.5 billion in debt. Instantly. It took generations to build the business into a efficient profit making machine and in one foul swoop she killed the profit making company and made it $2.5 billion in debt.

Her rational was she wanted to borrow the money to cut jobs which one day would save money. One day save money. Why does that sound like a snake oil salesman? Maybe because she left right after the devil's deed was done. Long before any future profits would be seen by the dastardly deed.

True the Union can't stand against technology forever. Yet Moya Greene refused to consult the Union or ANYONE skilled in the business. She had no skills in the business and refused to consult with anyone who did have skills in the business because she claims all her managers in the public sector are stupid. That was somewhat ironic.

If Canada Post had invested in machines that would sort the mail to line of travel so letter carriers would basically come in to pick up their mail and go deliver it, that would indeed have cut a huge amount of jobs which in turn would have greatly reduced labour cost. However, she didn't because those kind of machines don't exist in Canada.

For those kind of machines to exist in Canada we would have to completely change our postal code system to a system similar to what's used by the US. Right now everyone on the same side of the street has the same postal code. You can create machines that will sort letter mail to specific routes but not to line of travel which they are hoping for.

Spending money on good technology can save money in the long run. Spending a huge amount of money on bad technology with false promises will not. Oh but Moya Greene is long gone before we can see the results of her foul swoop.

We can go on and on about all the other blunders Moya Greene made at Canada Post which were bad for business but the simple conclusion is the point raised by the Vancouver local of CUPW.

She turned a profit making dividend paying company that took generations to build into a company that was $2.5 billion in debt instantly then left.

Hollandaise sauce au gratin

Hey Moya. I'm not on Twitter but guess what we're having for dinner. Hollandaise sauce au gratin. On n'est pas jetable. Fake hollandaise sauce doesn't glaze properly. It doesn't taste right either. Moya Greene recently gave a really goofy interview with the Globe and Mail about her cooking skills she learned from a book.

Ever wonder why she never learned to cook until she was in university and had to feed herself? She admits her mother was a great cook and she learned to love good food at home. Yet she claims she never learned to cook from her mother. She claims she became an expert on French cuisine from a Better Crocker cook book.

Before that she was just another spoilt brat who never cooked at home. In her interview she made a snide comment about Bearnaise sauce pretending that the corporate way of cheap and easy had in some obscure way anything to do with nouvelle cuisine.



Hollandaise sauce really isn't that difficult. Egg yolks, gradually heated and whipped then taken off the heat and whipped while warm clarified butter is added. Great on a seafood schnitzel and magnificent when glazed au gratin. The high heat browns and fluffs it up. It's kind of like telling the difference between a fake diamond and a real one except we're talking about taste and consistency.

Moya Greene is a con artist that is wrecking havoc on the Post Office. Look at her track record at Bombardier and look how removing public accountability has dramatically increased train derailments at CN. Her blind arrogance insisting that the public and public sector managers are stupid is a clear recipe for disaster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUv4u0wgo1U

Harper Government considers selling assets

OK this is just plain dumb. The Harper government is using the bad budget as an excuse to shoot himself in the foot and give away a cash cow. Canada Post makes money. Canada Post pays tax and dividends to the government. Selling that is bad business. Selling it has nothing to do with the bad budget. It has everything to do with the exact political extremism that created the economic crisis in the first place: http://www.theprovince.com/Homes/Major+Canadian+government+assets+could+sold/1299281/story.html

Moya Greene double dipping at Tim Hortons

I thought the Union was joking about this: http://post-this.cupw.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/10581/la_id/1.htm

Moya Greene is a Director at Tim Hortons: http://www.timhortons.com/en/about/bio-Greene.html