Postal Strike - 10 Days

This unofficial industrial action in Belfast is being taken over accusations of bullying and harassment and has nothing to do with pay, and believe me bullying and harassment is rife within the postal industry.

Bullying and Harassment procedures within Royal Mail are dealt with by its own managers and not an independent body, which is wrong and cannot be seen as being unbiased. A separate independent body is what is needed.

I do not condone unofficial industrial action, but understand the frustrations they face. If you believe that being bullied or harassed is okay and part of your job, fine, put up with it, but some people will not.
 
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Yan816 said:
This unofficial industrial action in Belfast is being taken over accusations of bullying and harassment and has nothing to do with pay, and believe me bullying and harassment is rife within the postal industry.

Bullying and Harassment procedures within Royal Mail are dealt with by its own managers and not an independent body, which is wrong and cannot be seen as being unbiased. A separate independent body is what is needed.

I do not condone unofficial industrial action, but understand the frustrations they face. If you believe that being bullied or harassed is okay and part of your job, fine, put up with it, but some people will not.
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Wonderful, but the post is not being delivered.

I was watching the news today and now the hosdpital outpatients and cancer units are more or less empty because the patients arent getting their letters or mail in the post, so dont know that they have an appointment. Its all well and good that the postal workers are unhappy, but they have got to realise that they have a wider social service to fufill that is now beginning to put people with serious illnesses at risk.
 
rollins said:
"Lazy assed postal workers" - hmmm, not all of us mate.
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sorry mate, I was just directing it at the guys who are on strike in Belfast at the minute, not every postal worker in the U.K. :)
 
I would have no problem with this strike if it was officially supported. However, it's not. I agree with sacking the lot of them if this is not resolved by the end of the week. 200 bodies is hardly a huge deficit.

Everyone else faces a lot of **** at work every day and we don't all decide to unofficially strike.

They claim to be delivering Special Delivery yet I've currently got suppliment stuff stuck in the black hole of the NI postal service. I've also got a £1200 TV being held ransom by Famac.

I have nothing against posties who work dilligently and do their job, I'm sure they are in the majority by far, but my experience with N.I. posties in south Belfast has been extremely lacklustre.

If this doesn't push us towards privatisation I don't know what it'll take.
 
Someone above mentioned bullying being the problem not pay. From the look of some of the people on strike, you'd think they could deal with bullying quite easily and being Northern Irish the group of strikers could sort it out themselves the way everyone else in the country does it.

I'm amused at the bullying reason.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if we here the word compo brought into it at some stage.
 
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