Royal Mail Strike Action
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Well i don't know if everyone's doing it but my Dad just rang me and let me know they are on an unofficial strike due to workers going back to hours getting changed and managers telling them they own them etc. He stated they are doing this around the country so workers leave down to their own accordance.
So i don't know how long it will last, but it may well last until next week when the new ones start.
So i don't know how long it will last, but it may well last until next week when the new ones start.
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Last thing i would give the last 2-3 postman around here is a pay rise, lucky if the post arrives by 3pm and an enormous amount of mail goes missing, have had special delivery packages shoved in the mailbox without even being signed for.
Not going to paint every postman with the same tar brush, but from the experiance ive had in the past few years i can't say they deserve anything.
Not going to paint every postman with the same tar brush, but from the experiance ive had in the past few years i can't say they deserve anything.
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I'm expecting my new keyboard, was posted next-day special delivery on Friday, heh.
Well looks like you won't get your stuff until next week. I just was speaking to him again this unofficial strike may carry on until the official ones next week so back to back striking. Unless it's only the workers in London.
i've bloody well had it with them striking. Fair enough to the official ones. But the unofficial ones are taking the biscuit. I know royal mail are being gay, but so are those ******* postal workers. I've got a load of stuff comin through the post and a broken comp that needs fixing for my uni work, but can't get the parts through to fix it.
GO BACK TO WORK OR GET ANOTHER JOB DAMMIT!
GO BACK TO WORK OR GET ANOTHER JOB DAMMIT!
I have to admire the shortsightedness of the workers and their unions.
I'm going to spell it out for them.
If you make the service worse than it already is, you will drive the company to collapse. You will all lose your jobs, and it WILL be your fault.
That is all.
I'm going to spell it out for them.
If you make the service worse than it already is, you will drive the company to collapse. You will all lose your jobs, and it WILL be your fault.
That is all.
Postal workers in being expected to work their contracted hours shocker!
I wonder if I can wander in a few hours early, do the work I've already been assigned and go home when I've finished that (irrespective of what other work may have come up that day).
I know what you mean, I wish I had a job that stated:
"You only have to work <---> this hard"
That was what i was on about, as my Dad works in one of the London Royal Mail branches, although im not to sure on which one as in the past few years he keeps switching between them as they close more and more down and he's been with royal mail since he was 19 and he's 50 now.
That's all i know though so some people will recieve post while others will not. I asked him today as im off work sick, he stated some will be working as they will have accepted their new change in hours while himself and others are refusing to accept the time change and are on an unofficial strike.
I don't know exactly what the main causes are but he did state it wasn't just about times, it's also apparently a lot deeper than that aswell which of course the public don't know about.
Unlucky
I'm waiting on a laptop, bottle of champagne, various cheques, and a few bits from the MM, I'm willing to lay odds that the laptop goes missing, the champagne is smashed and I get ripped off in the MM again! (nothing quite like being optimistic)
Once the market had been opened up, offering RM competition, it was only a matter of time before things had to change.
BT are another example of a past sole provider in this country who were suddenly offered competition in the form of LLU etc. Difference is, BT and its employee's have altered the way they do business to cope. How quickly was the internet in this country bumped upto world standards once BT realised they could be slowly driven out of their own market!
I sympathise with the RM staff to a certain extent, but I believe they have to start to understand, they no longer work in a secure institutionalised job. If the upper management doesnt streamline the company and actually make it viable within an open market (as EVERY successful business has had to do) then its going to lose more and more of the large business contracts, eventually leading to even the home market being eaten into. Then who loses out? The general workers...
RM is already loosing its large contracts, this is only going to spread if companies who rely on post for their business can no longer rely on the RM service. Once a big contract is lost its VERY difficult to win it back other than taking huge monetary losses...
I have never been in the situaton of being made redundant but it seems to me that regardless of what the CWU does, the RM upper management simply cannot give in to the demands any more than they have. They will have to modernise, which in turn will lead to job losses. They should make their employee's work the hours they are paid for etc etc. There are going to be job losses either way, seems to me it would be better to work as hard as possible within the job to try and make sure that when it happens you arn't one of the ones who gets culled (not always possible I know) and at least that way its more likely the whole company that the jobs rely on is more likely to be secure...
The public is also never going to be behind a strike that directly inconveniences them so its not even a good PR excercise... I just cant find an upside to the striking!
BT are another example of a past sole provider in this country who were suddenly offered competition in the form of LLU etc. Difference is, BT and its employee's have altered the way they do business to cope. How quickly was the internet in this country bumped upto world standards once BT realised they could be slowly driven out of their own market!
I sympathise with the RM staff to a certain extent, but I believe they have to start to understand, they no longer work in a secure institutionalised job. If the upper management doesnt streamline the company and actually make it viable within an open market (as EVERY successful business has had to do) then its going to lose more and more of the large business contracts, eventually leading to even the home market being eaten into. Then who loses out? The general workers...
RM is already loosing its large contracts, this is only going to spread if companies who rely on post for their business can no longer rely on the RM service. Once a big contract is lost its VERY difficult to win it back other than taking huge monetary losses...
I have never been in the situaton of being made redundant but it seems to me that regardless of what the CWU does, the RM upper management simply cannot give in to the demands any more than they have. They will have to modernise, which in turn will lead to job losses. They should make their employee's work the hours they are paid for etc etc. There are going to be job losses either way, seems to me it would be better to work as hard as possible within the job to try and make sure that when it happens you arn't one of the ones who gets culled (not always possible I know) and at least that way its more likely the whole company that the jobs rely on is more likely to be secure...
The public is also never going to be behind a strike that directly inconveniences them so its not even a good PR excercise... I just cant find an upside to the striking!
I'm sorry i dont sympathise with them at all, the amount of grief they have caused me over the last week is imense. My day is now filled with people ringing asking where their watches are and telling me it's our fault their watch hasnt turned up. The only reason why we don't send things by courier is because they go missing more often than with RM and RM are the only ones who will give us the level of insurance we need, not to mention this strike is costing me serious money in lost sales as well.
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News said there are unofficial strikes in Merseyside - where do they get off??!?!?!?!
Seriously, wtf?
Seriously, wtf?
I mentioned that last night there was unofficial strikes taking place, just didn't know all the information then. It's due to them returning to work to be treated like **** basically. I mean i can see how the company are annoyed with the amount of workers who went on strike but for them to come back to start working and to be treated the way some of them have is stupid as they walked straight back out again costing the company even more money due to stupidity.