postmen will strike themselves out of jobs

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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    I'm obviously not going to go into details about my pay and conditions on here, but, I believe in the current ecconomic climate a lot of companies are exploiting the situation.
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  • guilliano
    guilliano Posts: 5,495
    Companies will always exploit anything they can to make money for shareholders and the people at the top. Look at the bonuses paid to the likes of the people who took Rover over the edge while the people who earned the least lost jobs, livelihoods, homes and families.

    As for firemen's pay being kept artificially high..... piffle! They aren't in poverty as their union would have liked us all to belive during their strike action but if I was going to risk my life in my job I would want a salary reflecting that risk to both myself and my family's future.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    So how is this strike working?

    So if something was sent yesterday am I likely to recieve it tomorrow or not?
    BBC wrote:
    Mail centre staff and drivers will strike on Thursday while delivery and collection staff will take action on Friday.

    So according to that they must be delivering stuff tomorrow :?
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  • PostieJohn
    PostieJohn Posts: 1,105
    Morning RD.

    Think of us posties at the bottom of the food chain. (in every sense :lol:)

    We get our work from a large mail centre, driven to us in lorries.
    All employes involved in this will be on strike now.
    This will cause a huge backlog, even in just 1 day.

    So in theory today we will have very little to do, as no mail will get through the system.

    As they go back to work, your postie will strike.
    So you will not get any delivery tomorrow, causing an even bigger backlog, as drivers will not be expected to cross picket lines.

    Saturday is a shorter working day, so less gets done.

    Assuming the union calls more strikes they will be timed to make sure the sytem doesn't quite get back on it's feet, causing a greater rolling backlog.
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Having listened to the posties union leader on the radio this mornigna nd hearing him compare himself to Arthur Scargill, all I can say is Flee posties! Run away! This man is a lunatic who cares not for you!
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

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  • gkerr4
    gkerr4 Posts: 3,408
    ^ he actually compared himself to arthur scargill??
    thats quite funny in a way
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    redddraggon wrote:
    So how is this strike working?

    So if something was sent yesterday am I likely to recieve it tomorrow or not?
    BBC wrote:
    Mail centre staff and drivers will strike on Thursday while delivery and collection staff will take action on Friday.

    So according to that they must be delivering stuff tomorrow :?

    Yup, but presumably only stuff that arrived at your local distribution centre before 4am this morning (when the strike started); the first stage of the strike seems to involve the distribution chain between mail centres [1] rather than the local postie who delivers your mail or empties the pillar box. As far as I can make out, their strike action is on Friday.

    David

    [1] Although presumably mail trains out of the big Wembley depot still run, as they're crewed by railway staff not RM employees? Not that there'd be any lorry service to connect into/out of them though....
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  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    gkerr4 wrote:
    ^ he actually compared himself to arthur scargill??
    thats quite funny in a way

    He walsked right into it. THey asked him if he saw himself as a Scargill figure adn he replied that he "drew inspiration" from him.

    His inspiration presumably being sending his members into penury whilst sacrificing nothing himself and still getting fat off their dues. T!t.
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  • jedster
    jedster Posts: 1,717
    I'm no golfer but I was told that a "scargill" was a piece of golfing slang. If you hit a beautiful looking shot but it lands in a bunker, it's a scargill - great strike, bad outcome!
  • Gotte
    Gotte Posts: 494
    I don't deny what you say, Frank, about workers' rights being earned by the hard work of unions and the privations of the workers/strikers. Interestingly, though, another great driving force in the improvement of workers' conditions and rights were the two world wars. The country, when in need of optimum output improvement for the war effort, and could not get it without drastically (certainly in the case of World War One), improving the lot of the working man, and especially, woman.
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    Gotte wrote:
    I don't deny what you say, Frank, about workers' rights being earned by the hard work of unions and the privations of the workers/strikers. Interestingly, though, another great driving force in the improvement of workers' conditions and rights were the two world wars. The country, when in need of optimum output improvement for the war effort, and could not get it without drastically (certainly in the case of World War One), improving the lot of the working man, and especially, woman.

    Fair and valid point, indeed it was WW1 which was I believe the major reason women got the vote.
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