MidlandToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to the recent strike by Canada Post workers.
A Canadian Postal Service is necessary and instead of seeing $3 billion as “deficit” or “loss,” we should see it as the “cost” of running a non-profit essential service — like the cost of health care, education, military defence ... and, compared with those, really a small part of the overall budget.
How it is spoken of, how the words frame our mindset and the debate, are important!
I wish (a Christmas wish?) that unions and management could work together to find solutions to problems rather than have to resort to the adversarial process as in criminal courts.
Barbara Sternberg
Brechin
