Royal Mail announced record profits in March, the majority of which was shelled out in dividends. The figure you quote is projected losses for the current year.
Does anyone even send or receive mail nowadays? Our postman never comes here and the only things that drop through the letterbox are bills and adverts for kebab shops. In the age of the internet we could really do without both.
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These new strike proposals aren't ruining Christmas as the media would have you believe. They start at 6pm on the 24th December until the 27th of December. Now anybody who has ever travelled by train on the 24th or the 27th December will know it's an absolute nightmare anyway. After 6pm on the 24th most networks run no trains whatsoever and those that do operate on a much reduced capacity. On the 27th it's a skeleton service. Christmas and boxing day no trains run at all and haven't for decades. Add on anybody who has used the dreadful Avanti service between Manchester and London will know it's not fit for purpose at anytime never mind peak periods or during a dispute.
No worker goes on strike easily, they don't get paid when on strike. I know, I've been there. Strikes are rarely purely about pay either they also involve changes to manning and working practices. This means fewer people doing the same work but expected to deliver the same service and usually working longer hours with more responsibility added. People forget once jobs are cut in an industry they aren't coming back, they're lost forever. That means fewer jobs for your children and grandchildren and the ones that are left come with more stress and hours to work with the added downside to health and accidents such extra pressures bring. It's funny how it's always the workers that are painted as the bad guys in disputes but not the management and companies divvying up the wealth created by those same workers but not wanting to share a little with them to make their lives easier and more pleasant.
The media who drive this narrative are of course owned by very rich men with a vested interest in keeping this status quo going. Why wouldn't they, they are the ones who profit from doing so. The amusing thing is other working class people swallow it even though often their own jobs are crap. That's where the punching down tactic comes into effect. "How dare X,y and z earn X amount and want more when the poor nurses only earn X amount ( I used nurses as they're often the emotional argument put forward.) Funny now it IS the nurses fighting for more the same press are demonising them saying they are already on film star wages and get a great deal. See how this works?
Here's a link to an article with an unedited version of a video with the RMT leader Mick Cash on the latest proposed strike dates. The union members are also being balloted on whether to accept the governments/ rail companies latest offer. Of course eventually they probably will as hardship begins to bite. Time will tell.
Mick Lynch owns the media as Christmas strikes announced
Mick Lynch has accused the Conservative government of “corrupting business” as fresh Christmas strike action is announced.
These new strike proposals aren't ruining Christmas as the media would have you believe. They start at 6pm on the 24th December until the 27th of December. Now anybody who has ever travelled by train on the 24th or the 27th December will know it's an absolute nightmare anyway. After 6pm on the 24th most networks run no trains whatsoever and those that do operate on a much reduced capacity. On the 27th it's a skeleton service. Christmas and boxing day no trains run at all and haven't for decades. Add on anybody who has used the dreadful Avanti service between Manchester and London will know it's not fit for purpose at anytime never mind peak periods or during a dispute.
No worker goes on strike easily, they don't get paid when on strike. I know, I've been there. Strikes are rarely purely about pay either they also involve changes to manning and working practices. This means fewer people doing the same work but expected to deliver the same service and usually working longer hours with more responsibility added. People forget once jobs are cut in an industry they aren't coming back, they're lost forever. That means fewer jobs for your children and grandchildren and the ones that are left come with more stress and hours to work with the added downside to health and accidents such extra pressures bring. It's funny how it's always the workers that are painted as the bad guys in disputes but not the management and companies divvying up the wealth created by those same workers but not wanting to share a little with them to make their lives easier and more pleasant.
The media who drive this narrative are of course owned by very rich men with a vested interest in keeping this status quo going. Why wouldn't they, they are the ones who profit from doing so. The amusing thing is other working class people swallow it even though often their own jobs are crap. That's where the punching down tactic comes into effect. "How dare X,y and z earn X amount and want more when the poor nurses only earn X amount ( I used nurses as they're often the emotional argument put forward.) Funny now it IS the nurses fighting for more the same press are demonising them saying they are already on film star wages and get a great deal. See how this works?
Here's a link to an article with an unedited version of a video with the RMT leader Mick Cash on the latest proposed strike dates. The union members are also being balloted on whether to accept the governments/ rail companies latest offer. Of course eventually they probably will as hardship begins to bite. Time will tell.
Mick Lynch owns the media as Christmas strikes announced
Mick Lynch has accused the Conservative government of “corrupting business” as fresh Christmas strike action is announced.