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Stop striking you cunts and deliver letters, that is what you are paid to do. That is all.

First class post Fogster ! This sort of thing should be stamped out (Sorry Fred)

Christ almighty.... I havent groaned that much since Wovers equaliser at the CG last season..

Great news, at least i can go fishing for the day!

if the bosses had delivered, none of this would have happened (piss off fred)

I've never had a problem with royal mail ton be honest, they generally deliver everything very quickly and it's cheap, maybe I've just got a good postman. City link on the other hand are always completely useless.

I dont understand we will get post at work today???

No, because the lazy bastards are all stood around doing sod all again.

is this a national strike?

not yet,but it will be.the posties are right on this one.
the royal mail is being slowly destroyed

Well, I'm sure them not doing any fucking work and not delivering any fucking post will help Royal Mails predicament.

In the current climate with millions of people out of work and these guys striking over job cuts and pay doesn't make much sense. Royal Mail should just sack the fucking lot of them and re employ from the millions of unemployed who would happily post letters or sort mail for £20K+ a year.

I should imagine there is more to it than that, but it still annoys me that they keep striking.
They don't complain when they get their fucking bonuses.

do you think people want to strike and lose money?
it's not as black and white as some seem to think it is.management are using the current financial climate as a tool to enforce changes that are not for the good of anyone.
the service is poorer than it's ever been,yet still makes money.posties want things to be better and they were.the government have dipped into the profit pots over the years and have spent alll the pension funds.this was when the business was making massive profits

I think this is part of the reason it riles me too. It makes it seem like they want to have their cake and eat it.

Oh what so lets have all the big companies preying on peoples desperation for jobs to make sure they keep wages low?

I'm sure you'd love that at your work.

These guys are trying to improve their working life and standard of living for them and their families. And they get slagged off for this cos its a slight inconvenience for us?

I think it's a shame there is this undercurrent of feeling in this country against people striking and acting together to try and get a better deal for themselves.

Maybe the way I worded it was a tad harsh, but I think there needs to be some perspective.

In the company I work in, we've laid off 3,000 people worldwide, we have been told there is no payrise this year or next year, all training has been put on hold, we are losing money, we are taking extra days holidays unpaid and i'll just be happy if I still have my job at the end of the year

Since when did you have to know what you were on about, before you could post on a topic?

Talk Talk's been spouting shit for fucking years and gets away with it!

If they really think striking will improve things for them they are in cloud cuckoo land. What it will do is push even more businesses to their competitors and make everyone a little less confident in relying on the Royal Mail and for them to use alternate forms of communication instead.

No amount of action (strikes or management changes) will remedy the pension fund, which is what it's all about really.

Not national just London and for the record I have never striked in my life and never will.

splitter!

scab

Congratulations. That's great.

Work-shy cunts. Get back to delivering our post you lazy bastards.

you dont get many posties on forums,and surfing the net when they are supposed to be working

If i had known that then i wouldn't speak to you on facebook.

Scaaaaaaaaaaaaaab....although we're not suppose to call them that! I just call them Cunts instead.

That's because they don't sit in front of a PC for 9 hours a day.

They can all rot in hell for not learning how to shut my fucking gate

really?

Their line of work doesn't afford them the opportunity to use the internet. Others (including mine) do, and I take advantage of that.

Actually I have found being unemployed has helped immensly

Like a voluminous fountain of faeces. Incredible in its density and profusion it swamps all in the vicinity.

By the way, do you know that London tube train drivers get £40k a year? They strike all the time...

PS They also have a 35 hour working week and they get nine weeks annual leave.

get a job as a tube driver then

No thank you. Sitting in a tin can for seven hours a day?

I earn over double that anyway.

I'm fairly left wing, but my dealings with Unions have allowed to form the opinion they are cunts.  They are ruined by the usual problem with left wing ideals, self bloody interest and greed of individuals.  They are also a bit lost since Labour and the EU implemented most of the legislation they spent so long demanding.

I would have sympathy for them if I felt they were all putting in 100% to turn the company around.  Lets not beat about the bush here, if it wasn't a sort of Nationalised company, it would have sold off huger swathes of it's business by now.  It's a limping lump of all that is wrong with Nationalised industries and even if fully privatised it would take years to sort out (see BT, Gas, Water etc).  It's failed to see the trends in it's market and has absolutely no chance of reacting to them now with a workforce that seemingly wants it to be how it was in the good old days.

Oh, and arriba, I'd wager some (not many granted) do in fact actually enjoy a good strike.  There are too many "activists" in Unions that actually do very little "work" so it's become a profession in it's own right.  Just check out the Unite Union if you think I am just being argumentative.

Good for you.

good for you, here's a medal shaped like a NES controller

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I'm off to bed before I post a reply about monopoly businesses/trade unions and Fred goes ballistic...

Yeah, it is good thanks Sam. As long as the contracts are there of course. When they are not then it is complete shite and very hairy.

Night night.

Good night. Sleep tight.

If the strikers were bosses they wouldn't give a shit.  Then again I dont know what it's all about however I just do not understand striking!

You don't work for a period of time in order to put pressure on the management in an attempt to get them to give you better pay/working conditions.

Spy I understand the concept, just do not agree with it.

Oh OK you didn't literally mean you didn't understand it...

Do these strikes normally achieve what the activists want? I'm just wondering because they have an awful lot of strikes.

This is slightly off the debate but my opinion is that anyone being paid upward of 20k to post letters in the first place is a joke.

grrrr they're cunts

the posting letters people dont get 20k. unless they do lots of overtime. people who work unsoicial hours get the higher money, as would be expected.

I may have seen a striking Royal Mail worker in Swindon this morning.  Parked in a disabled bay in Tesco, smoking in his van (is that allowed) and reading not one, but two papers!  Sun and Mirror.  I was waiting for my dragon to trundle out with the week's shopping and he was there for about 45 minutes.  So are Royal Mail now employing disabled drivers who smoke and pay them to be in Tesco's car park on a Saturday morning and all this in a Royal Mail transit. :-[

happily the postie for my area  has given me my post- my latest lovefilm and the ashes 09 on the wii

no posties in swindon are striking, its only about 5% of the workforce per day that are out, mainly in london, but also some outer regions.

as for the smoking in vans, did you note the reg? not allowed, and its fucking rank, i hate driving in the vans after someones been smoking, but unless the driver is seen in the van and reported, they just say they were smoking outside the van.

Well he could have been striking, he certainly wasn't doing any work!!  As for the reg, I am sorry I didn't get it - although it was a 56 plate!

well maybe ring up and complain anyways, they *should* have trackers in the vans, so they should be able to tell which van it was. get a good look at the driver?

Been a postie for a day have you?

Same old bullshit. Blah blah easy job.

With a little bit of O/T, My gross was over 20 k easily Leggett.

Posties are just glorified paperboys really.

Yea, but why can't you shut gates?

He needs to be able to shut letterboxes first before gates Pumbaa.

Cut his finger open today apparently..

Papercut?

Facebook says no Simon.

Cut it on a letterbox apparently.

That's why the salary is so high - danger money.

I think its more often that not they get some benefit. Not necessarily what they're asking for. It's a negotiation isn't it?

This is IMO the best and most undeniably awesome strike of recent times...

http://www.tcetoday.com/tcetoday/NewsDetail.aspx?nid=11861

Ralph, i'm just jealous that i'm not in a job where i get paid for going on the internet all day.