No they want to have fewer part time, more full time and all new staff to have pensions.
To me, being a mailman is a hard job that requires a lot of physical and mental labour
It may be physically demanding but not a particularly skilled one.. You have routes, you learn them you haul your load every day. Kind of like a bus driver, warehouse picker or even a retail staffer.. This should be an entry level job geared to the young and able part time that you move on from later.. Not a life long career with a pension.
I have had Canada post delivery issues as well, particularly in the past they would just dash a pickup notice to my door INSTEAD of knocking or ringing a door bell for packages.. I was CONSTANTLY going to the post office to pick things up that I WAS home for and could have received if they had rang the door bell or knocked even. It really comes down to the individual.
Everyone should be paid fairly but from the info so far I am not convinced the union demands are resonable in this case other than maybe the mat leave request.