Selling off the profitable part of the system (cosmetic surgery, simple testing)
If a part of the system isn’t profitable, contract it out to a buddy at two to three times the cost it would cost to do so publicly. Nursing, for example: why pay a nurse via payroll at $x when you can contract nursing to am agency who will charge the government three times $x.
If there’s no way to make the service profitable, just let it rot. Family medicine? Cancer screening? Screw’em.
Erm, if CP can’t compete with Amazon while paying good union wages, as the article suggests, then perhaps we should make it very easy for Amazon workers to unionize. You know, the other way from race to the bottom.
Canada Post is selling off its IT and logistics departments, a move business experts say is an essential first step in saving a Crown corporation that lost more than half a billion dollars in 2022.
“It was determined the current shared-service model was not providing the speed and agility needed to compete today and in the future,” said a statement from Canada Post.
“The plan positions the company for growth in Canada’s e-commerce market while delivering on its core mandate of providing reliable delivery of mail, packages and parcels to every Canadian address.”
Postal Service’s example and work with major logistics companies to cover “the last mile” — the final part of a package’s journey, which accounts for more than half of delivery costs.
“CUPW has been advocating for a comprehensive plan which would work to ensure the future financial sustainability of Canada Post by expanding services,” spokesperson Siân Griffiths wrote in an email.
But Nita Chhinzer, a human resources expert in downsizing and a professor at the University of Guelph, said Canada Post needs to focus on its core services.
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Because targeting cost instead of service levels has worked out so well for healthcare.
Neoliberal solutions cause neoliberal problems.
Thought you guys had single payer up there?
We have single payer, but not single provider:
Our governments are hell-bent on:
Conveniently timed just as contract negotiations are coming up.
An essential gov service isn’t a profit center: it’s a charge.
Great, another public SERVICE that’s being treated as an expense. It’s not meant to be profitable you useless politicians! That’s not the point!
Privatization of any public service should be outlawed.
Jayzuz. It feels like we’re reverting back to the 1500s ffs.
Postal banking, more options for online shopping to combat amazon and shit. Alot we can do to make it profitable, not that it needs to be.
Erm, if CP can’t compete with Amazon while paying good union wages, as the article suggests, then perhaps we should make it very easy for Amazon workers to unionize. You know, the other way from race to the bottom.
Perhaps under the CUPW. 🤭
A service can never be run for profit. This is the definition of taxes and why we need them.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Canada Post is selling off its IT and logistics departments, a move business experts say is an essential first step in saving a Crown corporation that lost more than half a billion dollars in 2022.
“It was determined the current shared-service model was not providing the speed and agility needed to compete today and in the future,” said a statement from Canada Post.
“The plan positions the company for growth in Canada’s e-commerce market while delivering on its core mandate of providing reliable delivery of mail, packages and parcels to every Canadian address.”
Postal Service’s example and work with major logistics companies to cover “the last mile” — the final part of a package’s journey, which accounts for more than half of delivery costs.
“CUPW has been advocating for a comprehensive plan which would work to ensure the future financial sustainability of Canada Post by expanding services,” spokesperson Siân Griffiths wrote in an email.
But Nita Chhinzer, a human resources expert in downsizing and a professor at the University of Guelph, said Canada Post needs to focus on its core services.
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