Royal Mail Postal Strike, What a joke!

**Anthony** · 05-10-2007, 10:10 AM

Anybody else getting infuriated by the Royal Mail workers continuing this strike action? It was going on throughout the summer and now it seems it will continue to keep happening until RM cave and pay their workers more.

An article covered by the BBC this morning:

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More talks as post strike goes on

Talks between the postal workers' union and Royal Mail will begin again later as a strike over pay and job cuts continues to disrupt services.

Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), representing 130,000 postal workers, began the first of two 48-hour walkouts at noon on Thursday.
With another strike planned for Monday, the row will end deliveries for a week.

Meanwhile, Unite, which represents 12,000 managers, has reached agreement with Royal Mail in its pension dispute.

Read More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7029228.stm

Who invented Unions again?

**greedyboy** · 05-10-2007, 10:15 AM

Bring back Maggie, she would have sorted them out once and for all!

**YNWA** · 05-10-2007, 01:28 PM

Pain in the a*** but I dont blame them. Just pay them more and we will all be happy.

DSC · 05-10-2007, 01:38 PM

A complete farce, whats worse is that the members have not even been balloted for this strike, all down to the extorsionist leaders of the unions. They have been offered 2.5% yet CPI increase is at less than 2%, a bunch of Scargill wannabes.

I hope there is an election soon, I vote Maggie.

**Anthony** · 05-10-2007, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by YNWA

Pain in the a*** but I dont blame them. Just pay them more and we will all be happy.

At the cost of higher postage prices?

bennetts · 05-10-2007, 03:29 PM

my mums husband is a postman & he says they're not striking about pay its about Royal mail not investing in their pension scheme & trying to cut the redundancy pay

PT · 05-10-2007, 03:42 PM

Royal Mail should have given us more notice; I can’t see that it was planned over night. It’s left a lot of people in a terrible position. The only alternative now is a Courier, not exactly the best option for small packages or letters. Should we be the ones suffering when ultimately we have nothing to do with it? There are people who get paid by cheque, which is sent via post. What happens to them when they cannot pay their mortgage or feed their children?

Postmen/ women are getting paid roughly £395 per week, that’s more than a nurse! We are all in the same boat, with spiralling house prices, taxes rising left, right, and centre. A strike is just not the answer.

**greedyboy** · 05-10-2007, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by PT Games

Royal Mail should have given us more notice

To be fair it was announced 2 weeks ago.

m!ke · 05-10-2007, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Anthony

At the cost of higher postage prices?

they put the postages prices up more then the rate of pay,.

im all for it.. poor posties

the old/young chaps have to do 2 rounds now,. remember when you had 2 posties one doing the 1st class post at 8m and the other the 2nd class post at about 10am,. and now you get it a 1pm lol, if u get some thing recorded sign for it, you'll have to go pick it up,

and i should of posted the notice as my bro is part of the CWU and he told me about about 2-3weeks ago,.

Boro97 · 05-10-2007, 08:13 PM

Anthony you suprise me i would have had you down as a leftie,