Help needed for $h1t day tomorrow

[lighthouse]

Bit of a no win situation really, damned if you do, damned if you don't. Still just think about RM's bonuses to management before making your final decision.

And to balance that out, think about the ego's and financial position of the Union leaders.

Remember the miners strike; Arthur Scargill was a man who lived in a small house and looked after a big union. After the strike he was a man who lived in a big house and looked after a small Union.

There are plenty of other businesses out there just itching to take over the RMs work. This strike is playing right into their hands; i wouldn't be surprised to see the RM go the same way as our coal industry.

 

[phoenix]

I am a Postie too mate I was on strike 2 years ago.Do what you feel is right.I am lucky enought to be on holiday this week.But I do know that most people in my office are working.I work in a small office,so its not so bad.Good luck.

 

[Stat Brother]

$h1t does even come close to describe how I feel.

That hurt badly, really didn't want to do it, on a personel level, but no justification to hold out from a professional side.
The strikes next Friday and the following Monday would cripple me financially so I would have had to work those anyway, I don't for 1 minute think it will be easier, then.

 

[bhaexpress]

There are plenty of other businesses out there just itching to take over the RMs work. This strike is playing right into their hands; i wouldn't be surprised to see the RM go the same way as our coal industry.

Yes ? Really ? I worked for TNT a few years back and they were just about the worst firm I ever worked for. I might add I also worked for RM in a similar capacity and it was a very different matter.

What you're overlooking is that yes that are plenty of firms crying out to take RM's business but will charge more and more importantly won't walk that letter to your post box. Mind you if you don't mind hiking to their depot to get your mail then fine. Citilink have their nearest depot to me for example more than ten miles from my home and you have to tell them you are picking up something from them in advance. That would be a bit easier if they bothered to answer their phones.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

$h1t does even come close to describe how I feel.

That hurt badly, really didn't want to do it, on a personel level, but no justification to hold out from a professional side.
The strikes next Friday and the following Monday would cripple me financially so I would have had to work those anyway, I don't for 1 minute think it will be easier, then.

You need to make a personal decision based on financial needs , at the end of the day you can always resign from the union so you aren't labelled as a scab when the dispute is over. My missus thinks the posties should go out on indefinite strike to break the deadlock and she still has a list of all the local scabs from the '71 strike who were expelled from the UPW after the union kept their jobs for them as it was a closed shop back then..

 

[Stat Brother]

Our office doesn't split that fact.
You work, your a scab.

I have never been in the union.
I supported all the action in 2007, I supported last Friday, but I worked today.

Instead of someone taking me to one side and trying to help me understand the situation, to get me back 'onside'.

There will be some who will cold shoulder me, and others who I will no longer have the same relationship I enjoyed, up until end of work on Friday.