Posties vow to strike through XMAS

amcluesent

I hope all the bored housewives who invite the postie in for a quickie now withdraw their favours in protest

mancitychick

Off topic sort of but......... I have NO sympathy with the postal works. P12/13 of todays Sun shows a young lad of 18 who went to work (he is a soldier) and now has no legs, no left hand and a disfigured face.

Turn over to page 15 and you see the lazy !!!! postal workers stood round a fire. They think their job/pay/working conditions bad at RM, let them all try doing Craig Wood's job.

ARGHHH made me mad!!!

Rant over, feel slightly better now

cyberbob

Sun Reader and Man City Fan. :eek:

emweaver

I have no sympathy for the postal workers either, they should be grateful theyve got a job with all those out of work at the moment! Royal Mail willl probably loose some business over this long term and lay some off then theyll be kicking up a stink again. If they would stop loosing / stealing, damaging items etc then I would think maybe they would deserve a payrise until then they should learn to do the job theyre paid for and stop moaning. Tha majority of people think they dont earn enough, have poor conditions blah blah but just get on with it

DaveAshton

cally6008 wrote: »

And unions announced the 48-hour strike will be followed by a THREE-DAY stoppage from next Thursday.

So, this was announced on a Friday... which means the most they can do is a 2-day strike (Friday and Saturday). They've only given 6 days notice for a strike on Thursday, and they have to give 7.

amcluesent

Is ParcelFarce out too?

ganonman

One of the reasons for these strikes, as far as I'm aware, is that staff are saying they are being bullied by management.

I found this quote from a CWU activist on the workersliberty website:
"Don’t forget that we’re working with casuals on a day-to-day basis, not just on strike days. People give them the cold shoulder and don’t co-operate with them. We’ve made our feelings towards them clear. We’ve started to approach a few of them, but not as a branch or in an organised way. So far we’ve only got about a dozen casual staff in our office, but they are aware of how we view them.".

Is this not bullying in itself? It seems hypocritical to me...

Leanne200

They are doing themselves out of their own jobs, and I won't feel sorry for them at all... it makes me mad that were amidst a reccession and they are not making thing any better for this country by doing this right now, it makes me sick and I think they are selfish and dont think of the concequences and the bigger picture!

custardy

Leanne200 wrote: »

They are doing themselves out of their own jobs, and I won't feel sorry for them at all... it makes me mad that were amidst a reccession and they are not making thing any better for this country by doing this right now, it makes me sick and I think they are selfish and dont think of the concequences and the bigger picture!

what the gradual errosion of any mail service before the fat cats cream off on the privatisation gravy train?

StaffsSW

custardy wrote: »

what the gradual errosion of any mail service before the fat cats cream off on the privatisation gravy train?

fat cats are not just exclusive to the private sector. Union leaders are on a pretty good take as well....

http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2009/01/15/while-millions-take-pay-cuts-union-leaders-rake-it

Bob Crow (RMT) - £79,564 in salary, £26,115 in pension contributions, £13,013 expenses
John Hannett (USDAW) - £81,742 salary, £16,389 pension contributions
Billy Hayes (CWU) - £83,530 salary, £14,190 pension contributions
Sally Hunt (UCU) - £63,743 salary, £7,612 pension contributions, £2705 car benefit (start of June 2006 to end of May 2007)
Paul Kenny (GMB) - £81,000 salary, £21,000 superannuation (pension contributions), £8,000 car
Dave Prentis (Unison) - £92,187 salary, £23,603 pension contributions, £11,646 expenses and car benefit
Derek Simpson (Unite-Amicus) - £62,673 salary, £16,156 pension contributions, £13,333 car allowance, £26,181 housing benefit
Mark Serwotka (PCS) - £82,094 salary, £26,104 pensions contributions, £2,245 additional housing cost allowance and additional housing cost supplement
Steve Sinnott (NUT) - £99,846 salary, £23,963 pension contributions
Tony Woodley (Unite-TGWU) - £59,333 salary, £9,552 pension contributions, car fuel £3,360
Matt Wrack (FBU) - £66,389 salary, £44,281 pension contributions, £5,134 car

I guess the information is a little out of date, as Steve Sinnot died last year - he was my old form tutor when I was at school in Preston