Post staff to hold national strikes (22+23 oct)

jackiegibbo

amcluesent wrote: »

Royal Mail to hire 30,000 temps

"Royal Mail will recruit up to 30,000 temporary staff to deal with upcoming strikes by postal workers and the Christmas rush"

All together now..."Scab! Scab! Scab!"

they cant be scabs if they arent in the union thats a very 70s thing to say.

fruitcake_2

Am looking to RM being privatised...bring it on.....definitely not what it used to be........bring some order to this sham service. Get better workers and fair wages for them too.

RFW

fruitcake wrote: »

Am looking to RM being privatised...bring it on.....definitely not what it used to be........bring some order to this sham service. Get better workers and fair wages for them too.

The problem with Royal Mail stems from governments telling RM management to streamline it to be privatised. The first thing a privatised company is likely to do would be to treble the price of a first class stamp and do away with second class. That's without the natural increase in prices when VAT has to be added to everything.
Privatisation wouldn't bring about a solution, just a whole new set of problems.
No company would buy a company whose work force are in dispute with management and it certainly wouldn't be viable to float on the stock market.

Brooker_Dave

fruitcake wrote: »

Am looking to RM being privatised...

Indeed, just look at what it's done for the railways, gas and electricity.

My electricity now comes from a company owned by the French state, and is more expensive than ever.

It's been renationilised, but now owned by someone elses government, who get all the profits, and if there's an energy shortage, guess which countries lights will go out first...

custardy

jackiegibbo wrote: »

but unfortunately that is when misdeliveries happen and letters get put in the wrong letterboxes,hopefully it wont happen too much

hardly,none of them are delivering during the strikes

custardy

fruitcake wrote: »

Am looking to RM being privatised...bring it on.....definitely not what it used to be........bring some order to this sham service. Get better workers and fair wages for them too.

lol dave brookers already covered the privatisation
however where exactly would these fair wages come from?

custardy

cyberbob wrote: »

Royal Mail Hires Temporary workers to help offset strike

been posted a few times,this is for sorting not delivery

wullie

Don't worry Royal Mail are going to take on 30000 foreign workers who don't speak a word of english... let them work 12 hours for 8 hours pay... you moaners get what you deserve

cyberbob

custardy wrote: »

been posted a few times,this is for sorting not delivery

Sorry got bored reading whole thing and couldn't see it in last few posts. I assume though if the strikes get prolonged they will start to use temporary staff for delivery as well.

FlameCloud

mazza111 wrote: »

lol would u work an extra half hour without pay every day? That's just one walk, multiply that by 5 days, 2.5 hrs a week. Then multiply that by how many walks are undercalculated. I think you will find that RM are onto a winner with this.

Have you ever worked in a proper commercial environment? If I could get away with only half an hour each day I'd be chuffed, as I am sure most people would.

If you don't like it you could always leave.