Do you support the Posties striking?

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Suport them. who gives a f*** if a bit of post you needed didn't get through. As far as I can see the world hasn't stopped spinning because you lot didn't get a bit of post. They are being bullied and threatened with job cuts while the chairmen give themselves £350,000 bonuses.

Quite. In fact the fat cat bonuses DEPEND on them bullying the workforce into submission. Then the fat cats move on to another totally unrelated job sector to kick the shit out of their workforce also.


Adam Crozier FFS

Here's one from two years ago...


"Royal Mail delivers record profit

All Royal Mail staff are to share in the bonus
Postal workers at the Royal Mail will each be given bonuses of £1,074 after the mail service announced record annual profits of £537m.
Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier has received a £2.2m bonus as his reward for leading the recovery.

Over the past 12 months the state-owned operator made more than £2m a day in profits, compared with losses of more than £1.5m a day three years ago.

Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton said it was a "fantastic turnaround".

Mr Crozier's £2.2m bonus accounts for all his work since he first took up the top role in February 2003.

In addition, he has received a basic annual salary of around £500,000, taking his total pay since he joined the company up to £3.3m.

The Royal Mail said two thirds of the £3.3m was performance-based, thanks to the Royal Mail meeting its targets."




Sadly now, the Royal Mail targets are the workforce, without whom there wouldn't BE a Royal Mail. Adam Crozier will be alright. He always is. Smarmy git. Did such a GRAND job at the Football Association

 

[Yorkie]

Sadly now, the Royal Mail targets are the workforce, without whom there wouldn't BE a Royal Mail. Adam Crozier will be alright. He always is. Smarmy git. Did such a GRAND job at the Football Association

Got it in one.

 

[Stat Brother]

Well CTS for the record I still love my job, well the out and about delivery side, my depot is very edgy, & have never filled out a card incorrectly.

Delivery strike called off for next Tues, due to a high court injuntion

 

[Collar Feeler]

I was a postie for 3.5 years in the late 80s and my fellow posties were the laziest bunch of workshy fuckers I have ever worked with. Started work at 4AM and finished the 2nd delivery by around 1030AM. Paid until 12PM but moaned like f*** if asked to continue working until their finishing time!! Cheeky fuckers even asked to be paid overtime if asked to work whilst still in their actual duty time! A typical example: 4 hours overtime to pick up a few bags of mail from Brighton station and return them to the sorting office in North Road!!! I still know a load of Posties in Brighton and by all accounts it hasn't changed much at all, no wonder the Post Office lost so much money all those years. A workforce still stuck in the 70s with their working practices and Union rules mentality, it's utterly ridiculous.

 

[Yorkie]

It looks as though a deal has been reached although not fully accepted yet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7038899.stm

 

[John Byrne]

Fingers crossed....

 

[John Byrne]

Any news

 

[Stat Brother]

Nope, early 5-live reckoned the executive will be pawing over the agreement for a couple of days, yet.
Which I found odd as I was thinking it was just a rubber stamp type thingy.

 

[John Byrne]

From what i've heard at my office its...no back dated pay for starters...maybe a small lump sum of £150....and a 7.2% pay increase for the next two years.

Again none of the above is 100% only whats been said.

 

[Stat Brother]

Day off today, so my info is 5-live. They said 6.9% over 18 months, but it was the pension side of things, that was going to hold talks up.

 

[Buzzer]

Day off today, so my info is 5-live. They said 6.9% over 18 months, but it was the pension side of things, that was going to hold talks up.

6.9% over 18 months? Not too bad - works out at 3.62% per annum. What's the pension thing they're stalling on?

 

[John Byrne]

Any news??

 

[dougdeep]

6.9% over 18 months? Not too bad - works out at 3.62% per annum.

Did you do maths at school?

 

[zefarelly]

public sector workers generally get far better benefits, holidays and pay rises than those of us working for small private companies., if they think its that bad they can always work somewhere else, no one forces you to work anywhere specific.

Our junk mail seems to be arriving with a magnificent reliability and consistency, usually coupled with a bill or bank statement I asked to be sent on line instead !!!!

 

[British Bulldog]

no one forces you to work anywhere specific.

Maybe a persons circumstances do though?

 

[John Byrne]

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[John Byrne]

public sector workers generally get far better benefits, holidays and pay rises than those of us working for small private companies., if they think its that bad they can always work somewhere else, no one forces you to work anywhere specific.

Our junk mail seems to be arriving with a magnificent reliability and consistency, usually coupled with a bill or bank statement I asked to be sent on line instead !!!!

Sounds like you don't have a clue what is going on to me

 

[zefarelly]

20 days, no pay rise for 5 years and 3 redundancies in the process, my salary now is £1k less than in 2002, in fact its only private work at weekends thats kept us financially afloat the last 2 years.

I work with/for civil service, as a private relaitively small Company its increasingly difficult to sustain the business let alone any profitability.

Nationalised industries vs private sector is another issue. adapt or die, the rest of us have to.

 

[British Bulldog]

20 days, no pay rise for 5 years and 3 redundancies in the process, my salary now is £1k less than in 2002, in fact its only private work at weekends thats kept us financially afloat the last 2 years.

Now thats where your obviously a lot more tolerant than i am on these matters, I expect a pay rise every year and the only changes to my working conditions I accept are improvements and i'm willing to fight every inch of the way to get what I want.

 

[BensGrandad]

I do not agree with strikes end of.