PragueBlue
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Plenty of alternatives out there. Most parcels we receive are via DPD/Hermes these days and DHL for documents.
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Royal Mail to Strike?
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Blue Maverick
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Power to the people, good luck posties
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blueinsa
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Well done the Posties.
It is about time the working class started to fight back.
The damage to its customers who have given them contracts and rely on their service for their businesses to run?
Postman Pep
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Maybe the new the new CEO who started this conflict could compensate them out of his 6M signing on fee ...or his 2M plus salary ?The damage to its customers who have given them contracts and rely on their service for their businesses to run?
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blueinsa
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Maybe the new the new CEO who started this conflict could compensate them out of his 6M signing on fee ...or his 2M plus salary ?
Doubtful dont you think?
Maybe business will go elsewhere and then you wont have to worry about striking as you will be redundant?
Postman Pep
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Maybe but as I say this 100% management agitation are we supposed to take it lying down? When your job security is at risk redundancy is not much of a threat. Must dash I've got a vanful of online shopping to deliver :)Doubtful dont you think?
Maybe business will go elsewhere and then you wont have to worry about striking as you will be redundant?
mexico1970
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The post office is a victim of progress, there are many many more carriers people can use and these carriers will pick up the slack if they need something delivered. Strike action and in particular strike action by underpaid undervalued workers should of course be supported but it's a little strange to expect the very businesses a strike puts at risk to support them.
The damage to its customers who have given them contracts and rely on their service for their businesses to run?
Its catch 22.
Firstly, it's the company who have the contracts and not the workers.
Secondly, I'm sure if you went through the issues then you'd probably support them too. I'm not a big fan of striking in general but this is a huge example of the workers getting fucked over. And purposely so aswell. It was blatant mate.
They had the choice between not striking and watching their company disappear or strike and try to prevent it. This is one of the few strikes where the workers are on the side of the customers more than management.
Since Royal Mail was privatised, it has essentially become a business that sells off major part of its property portfolio then pays that profit as dividend to its shareholders while almost ignoring the postal side of the business. Its grotesque.
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Well, at least no one can deny that the ballot is a democratic decision.
If we only had majorities like that in other matters there'd be a lot less argument.
If we only had majorities like that in other matters there'd be a lot less argument.