Royal Mail to Strike?

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

It's a trap. Run down workers conditions, workers go on strike, strike makes dents in profits, tory govt feigns concern for workers but explains that company is now unprofitable. You know what comes next....

 

[bluethrunthru]

It's a trap. Run down workers conditions, workers go on strike, strike makes dents in profits, tory govt feigns concern for workers but explains that company is now unprofitable. You know what comes next....

Renationalisation and security of employee rights..................?

 

[BimboBob]

It's a trap. Run down workers conditions, workers go on strike, strike makes dents in profits, tory govt feigns concern for workers but explains that company is now unprofitable. You know what comes next....

There is no-one else to do it though. Many have tried and failed. So what comes next is they either want no mail, not really an option, or to control it themselves...

And as bluethru says...job security.

 

[Postman Pep]

It's a trap. Run down workers conditions, workers go on strike, strike makes dents in profits, tory govt feigns concern for workers but explains that company is now unprofitable. You know what comes next....

I
Generally I agree but this is not binning off a few thousand workers in one locality

 

[allblackcitizen]

At least i wont get any bills for a while

ffs

if I had 1p for the number of times that's been said to me I'd be a moderately wealthy man, and I've only been a postie for 2 years!

 

[allblackcitizen]

Great.

Go live on Friday with a new business and I've given Royal Mail the contract to ship.

Tell you what, why don't you get on to Royal Mail senior management and tell them that the only reason you gave them the contract was because you admire the company for providing reasonable pay and conditions for its workforce and because it has historically encouraged union membership and sought to deal constructively with its employees' representatives and that you like to see happy, smiley posties bringing missives and good cheer to your home and work, and should that ever change you will not hesitate to take your business to a competitor?

 

[Postman Pep]

Renationalisation and security of employee rights..................?

Marxist :)

 

[Postman Pep]

 

[allblackcitizen]

Blimey. My day off today, so this is the first I've heard.

So when we downing our mailbags and trolleys?

Never been on strike before.

 

[Postman Pep]

Blimey. My day off today, so this is the first I've heard.

So when we downing our mailbags and trolleys?

Never been on strike before.

Last one was a good few years ago but there was a yes vote last year that resulted in the agreement Royal Mail are threatening to renege on. Currently going through the protocol of mediation to comply with the latest trade union laws but there appears to be no consensus (sounds familiar). When the ballot was announced a date of November 20th was mentioned as the earliest date, again to comply with the above law, but coincidentally just in time for Black Friday madness. Add to the that the possibility of a GE and the extra election propaganda and carnage is assured. Before the free marketeers pile in this is 100% management agitation firstly by tearing up an eighteenth month old agreement and secondly picking a fight at this time of year.