Overburdened

Overburdened

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Overburdened episodes

  • Accommodations

    The employers duty to accommodate and the unions role



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    31 min
  • Unionizing Amazon

    Find anything at Amazon! Except decent working conditions but that should be changing soon as efforts to organizing are beginning to pay off.



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    29 min
  • Compensatory time, other ways to use your overtime

    Did you know you could bank time for your OT instead of getting it paid out? You did? Ok, listen anyway.



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    26 min
  • Serve Yourself?

    Employee Self Serve, lots of useful tools you can use to bypass a supervisor and get a correct answer instead.



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    34 min
  • Deescalation! Winding down COVID restrictions

    It wasn't that long ago CPC was finally forced to allow masks that weren't garbage and now it's time for the long slow plan of working towards getting rid of them all together. 



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    26 min
  • Incident Investigation: What are we really doing?

    Everything that goes on with you and behind the scenes when an incident occurs and how the corporations "blame the employee" approach differs from the unions.




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    39 min
  • Albert Jackson - Postal hero

    Albert Jackson, (born c. 1857–58; died January 14, 1918), was first Black letter carrier in Canada. We briefly discuss his career and the current state of CPC and CUPW regarding racial equality.


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    14 min
  • Hey! Have you heard about the pandemic?

    Now that the pandemic is hopefully in its finally year we review the corporations responses to the crisis. Predictably, they have not done amazing.



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    50 min
  • Protests rights and wrongs

    Truckers against vaccines, or masks, or the government or something.... who knows anymore!

    Whether you support the cause or not there are some things the 'Freedom Convoy' is doing well and something they are obviously doing not so well. We look at their actions and what lessons we could learn from them.




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    The Employee and Family Assistance Program

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    38 min

About Overburdened

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Issues and current events that affect members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers