Royal Mail Strike Action

I'm just hoping the ink cartridges I ordered yesterday come today - or I'll have to wait until next the middles of next week for them. :mad::rolleyes:
 
rollins said:
Sometimes these threads really wind me up.

I'm now 10 years in Royal Mail, and some of the attitudes of some people on the forum to a job that I do bloody well gets to me. I've not taken a sick day in 6 years now, I'm going in today, I'll be covering at least 4 jobs on my shift (on a normal day I'll cover 2 duties if need be without hesitation) - and I've been doing tis every strike day so far.

Because of this, I've had my bike tyres slashed, and felt pretty low about things in general.

Here's the biggest fact going - when RM offered the initial pay deal, the CWU turned it down flat. We were not balloted on if we would accept the pay deal, we were balloted for strike action - we have never been asked on if we want to accept the current pay deal.

Some of the things that RM are pushing through to me are a mistake, such as flexible working hours. In essence, if its a quiet day, I can be sent home early, the hours lost can be put into an hour bank and then I can be asked to change my shift patterns at any time - that worries me. I chose this job because of its hours structure, and have also declined more management time because I enjoy the structure of a set shift. This also means that as a man with no children, I can be used more to cover a family man as he can theoretically use his kids as an excuse to opt out of flexible hours.

Am I striking because of this - NO

BTW, I am a CWU member and an ex union rep. So please consider the posties that are crossing the picket line today before you make pretty harsh comments such as those above. Lazy? Thanks for that.
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It seems that some here are just getting their panties in a bunch because their subscription to Warhammer or their latest anime shipment will be a few days late...no idea about the real world mate
 
Well at the moment second class seems to mean your post will take a week anyhow so I wouldn't expect it any time soon.

It's strange 1st class literally arrives next day while second class takes close to a whole week!
 
rollins said:
Sometimes these threads really wind me up.

I'm now 10 years in Royal Mail, and some of the attitudes of some people on the forum to a job that I do bloody well gets to me. I've not taken a sick day in 6 years now, I'm going in today, I'll be covering at least 4 jobs on my shift (on a normal day I'll cover 2 duties if need be without hesitation) - and I've been doing tis every strike day so far.

Because of this, I've had my bike tyres slashed, and felt pretty low about things in general.

Here's the biggest fact going - when RM offered the initial pay deal, the CWU turned it down flat. We were not balloted on if we would accept the pay deal, we were balloted for strike action - we have never been asked on if we want to accept the current pay deal.

Some of the things that RM are pushing through to me are a mistake, such as flexible working hours. In essence, if its a quiet day, I can be sent home early, the hours lost can be put into an hour bank and then I can be asked to change my shift patterns at any time - that worries me. I chose this job because of its hours structure, and have also declined more management time because I enjoy the structure of a set shift. This also means that as a man with no children, I can be used more to cover a family man as he can theoretically use his kids as an excuse to opt out of flexible hours.

Am I striking because of this - NO

BTW, I am a CWU member and an ex union rep. So please consider the posties that are crossing the picket line today before you make pretty harsh comments such as those above. Lazy? Thanks for that.
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Everyone's welcome to their own opinion but please don't make crossing a picket line sound like a good option to these impressionable youngsters.

Good people will lose lots and have their personal lives shaken up by these proposals and they're right to strike. As I am.

Nothing wrong with a good bit of solidarity, something which is rarer and rarer in this country where everyone only seems interested in number one.
 
todd flanders said:
Everyone's welcome to their own opinion but please don't make crossing a picket line sound like a good option to these impressionable youngsters.

Good people will lose lots and have their personal lives shaken up by these proposals and they're right to strike. As I am.

Nothing wrong with a good bit of solidarity, something which is rarer and rarer in this country where everyone only seems interested in number one.
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Crossing a picket line is far more responsible than striking, it's the latter that needs to be discouraged in favour of rational discussion and negotiation.
 
rollins said:
Sometimes these threads really wind me up.

I'm now 10 years in Royal Mail, and some of the attitudes of some people on the forum to a job that I do bloody well gets to me. I've not taken a sick day in 6 years now, I'm going in today, I'll be covering at least 4 jobs on my shift (on a normal day I'll cover 2 duties if need be without hesitation) - and I've been doing tis every strike day so far.

Because of this, I've had my bike tyres slashed, and felt pretty low about things in general.

Here's the biggest fact going - when RM offered the initial pay deal, the CWU turned it down flat. We were not balloted on if we would accept the pay deal, we were balloted for strike action - we have never been asked on if we want to accept the current pay deal.

Some of the things that RM are pushing through to me are a mistake, such as flexible working hours. In essence, if its a quiet day, I can be sent home early, the hours lost can be put into an hour bank and then I can be asked to change my shift patterns at any time - that worries me. I chose this job because of its hours structure, and have also declined more management time because I enjoy the structure of a set shift. This also means that as a man with no children, I can be used more to cover a family man as he can theoretically use his kids as an excuse to opt out of flexible hours.

Am I striking because of this - NO

BTW, I am a CWU member and an ex union rep. So please consider the posties that are crossing the picket line today before you make pretty harsh comments such as those above. Lazy? Thanks for that.
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oh do get a grip, i don't think anyone on here criticising is criticising the postmen and women who are going into work regardless, and yes, those striking are lazy. and if you didn't get to vote on the new wage or the walk outs then whose fault is that? surely not the paying public, but the arogant and over zealous union who seem only interested in gridning the RM in to the ground, and unfortunatly when that happens there will cease to be the need for a union, which kind of defeats the whole object, but i guess the idiot postmen that are in favour of the strikes really cannot see that far ahead.

they are only hurting themselves, surely after this fiasco RM are only going to have to make more staff cuts than originally planned, as they are losing business as a result, and i'm sorry, but if the common postie thinks thats going to hurt RM then they are thick, it's not, it's just going to be made manifest in job losses and harder work for those remaining, the bosses up top arent worried, they know if RM goes under they're set for the rest of their lives, but you (the posty) are not.
 
todd flanders said:
It's not responsible, it's completely dishonourable.
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since when was earning a fair wage dishonourable? your pathetic if you think otherwise, strike or not

todd flanders said:
Rational discussion and negotiation have failed, not through the want of trying.
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they only failed as a result of the CWU not being rational or amicable, there was no trying on the side of the CWU, it was basically:
'pay us more money and dont make job cuts for the modernisation of a company still in the 1900'sor we'll strike'

'ok hows x ammount more per hour?'

'pay us more or we'll strike'

'thats as much as we can'

'ok, we strike cos were money hungery ******* who dont care about the long term welfare of our members'
 
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todd flanders said:
It's not responsible, it's completely dishonourable.

Rational discussion and negotiation have failed, not through the want of trying.
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Militant unions like yours don't engage in rational discussion and negotiation, they threaten, bully and try to improve their powerbase at the expense of the company and the workers in the long term by appealing to workers short term greed and large numbers falling for it ;)
 
todd flanders said:
Really? Does that include their pensions too? Or are you, as I suspect, talking via your back passage?
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well, it's quite possible that if RM go under they wont be able to pay out for pensions, i belive thats the way it goes. and besides, who gets a pension at under 60/65, your argument has no rational, and maybe it is you who should examine the cavity you're orating from
 
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