Strike!
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moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
Good choice of day as monday is a bank holiday to add more to the backlog.
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
Sat in the doctors waiting for a blood test, fresh from my CWU picket line and proudly sporting my 'on strike for fair pay' badge.
Delivery office shut, not even managers going in (they've been sent to another office with a load of other managers where they can all manage each other!).
Some people from the local trades council turned up with jaffa cakes, biscuits and a bit of cash in an envelope. Good first day of action.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
Delivery office shut, not even managers going in (they've been sent to another office with a load of other managers where they can all manage each other!).
Some people from the local trades council turned up with jaffa cakes, biscuits and a bit of cash in an envelope. Good first day of action.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Nice. Any idea if this is BFAWU, Unite or what?
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
Simon Thompson Royal Mail CEO on Radio 4 at lunch time was pretty clear that:
1. Shareholder interests drive company decisions, no mention of consumer needs let alone public needs.
2. Shareholders want a shift away from a universal postal service (which remember includes a huge volume of parcels...including those from Amazon when they don't have capacity) towards a parcel delivery company.
3. Royal Mail has been approached about a take over by venture capitalists.
So the pay dispute and the terms and conditions dispute (which is coming down the line) are actually about both the continued livelihoods of posties and the continued existence of Royal Mail as part of the country's necessary infrastructure.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
1. Shareholder interests drive company decisions, no mention of consumer needs let alone public needs.
2. Shareholders want a shift away from a universal postal service (which remember includes a huge volume of parcels...including those from Amazon when they don't have capacity) towards a parcel delivery company.
3. Royal Mail has been approached about a take over by venture capitalists.
So the pay dispute and the terms and conditions dispute (which is coming down the line) are actually about both the continued livelihoods of posties and the continued existence of Royal Mail as part of the country's necessary infrastructure.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
BFAWU (wage is up to £13.82ph - I should change job!)
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Hats off to the BFAWU for that one, I'd heard of the Sheffield Needs A Pay Rise campaign but was never quite sure how much actual (hospitality) worker involvement there was in it, very glad to have my cynicism disproved on this point!
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
Keith Williams - Royal Mail's non executive chair and ex head of British Airways...salary £300,000 pa in 2018 (so who knows now?) - claimed in todays Guardian that 'we (Royal Mail) pay 40% more than the market' and that 'he wants to preserve what has made Royal Mail part of the fabric of British life: posties in shorts whistling up garden paths, Postman Pat-style vans climbing country roads and cheery morning retorts'.
1. On my hourly rate (£12.38) that would mean that 'the market' is paying the equivalent of £8.84 per hour. If you include my two supplements (£15.14 pw and £20.14 pw) that rises it to £9.74 per hour. The minimum wage is £9.50. So is he aspiring to be a minimum wage employer; what ambition or dishonesty.
2. The is no actual market because the Royal Mail doesn't just do what Amazon, DPD, Evri and all the rest do. And when TNT tried in a limited number of city locations to do what Royal Mail does 6 six days a week across the whole of the UK, they failed.
3. Which brings me onto to what makes the Royal Mail part of the fabric of British life. Well it isn't patronising stereotypes but rather the provision of that universal postal service , including but by no means limited to the delivery of parcels.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
1. On my hourly rate (£12.38) that would mean that 'the market' is paying the equivalent of £8.84 per hour. If you include my two supplements (£15.14 pw and £20.14 pw) that rises it to £9.74 per hour. The minimum wage is £9.50. So is he aspiring to be a minimum wage employer; what ambition or dishonesty.
2. The is no actual market because the Royal Mail doesn't just do what Amazon, DPD, Evri and all the rest do. And when TNT tried in a limited number of city locations to do what Royal Mail does 6 six days a week across the whole of the UK, they failed.
3. Which brings me onto to what makes the Royal Mail part of the fabric of British life. Well it isn't patronising stereotypes but rather the provision of that universal postal service , including but by no means limited to the delivery of parcels.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
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MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Maths don't you just love it.
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
And here is the CEO Simon Thompson I referred to earlier:
Royal Mail Hypocrisy
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Royal Mail Hypocrisy
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hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Don't think we've had this on here yet, leisure center cleaners in Battersea:
teqniq
DisMembered
It's the busiest and largest container port in the UK. If they continue to strike it will surely have an effect on the economy sooner or later? You'd think that the management would be willing to talk but no.... It would be interesting to know who are actually the main beneficiaries of CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.
www.itfglobal.org
ITF delegation joins Felixstowe picket line as managers refuse to negotiate | ITF Global
Dockers on the picket line at the Port of Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container terminal, told a delegation from the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) that management is offering a
'They don't need to strike'
Says a striking postman about striking dockers!
Port of Felixstowe strike workers enter final day
I bet his union rep will be asking for a nice little chat about being on the same page!
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
Unite and Unison both calling on TUC to coordinate strike action; they have submitted motions to TUC conference to this end.
A TUC spokesman has supported the notion saying it is part of their role to help make industrial action as effective as possible.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
A TUC spokesman has supported the notion saying it is part of their role to help make industrial action as effective as possible.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Yep, story on the above:
BT strike again tomorrow, list of picket lines should be the same as here:
www.cwu.org
Saved on their site as the marvellously-named "thingy.pdf"
Handy list of some strike dates here, linked to the archive version cos the inews website is a fucking nightmare to look at:
Oh, and the Unison HE ballot is now closed, so expecting a statement on the outcome of that very shortly.
UK's biggest unions propose co-ordinated strikes this autumn
The UK's largest unions, Unite and Unison, call for a joined-up approach as they fight for better pay deals.
www.bbc.co.uk
BT strike again tomorrow, list of picket lines should be the same as here:
LOCATION DETAILS: National BT Strike Picket Lines
COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION 28/7/2022 OPS NOTE: BT STRIKE PICKETS TIME: 7AM ONWARDS You are invited to join striking BT Group workers, who will be holding hundreds of picket lines across the country tomorrow (Friday 29th July) and Monday (1st August). Please find enclosed a list of p
Handy list of some strike dates here, linked to the archive version cos the inews website is a fucking nightmare to look at:
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archive.ph
Oh, and the Unison HE ballot is now closed, so expecting a statement on the outcome of that very shortly.
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson earns the same in a year as about 35 posties or 22 nurses. It is possible he's not value for money.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
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Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Latest in the "does this undermine the workers" series...
Would it be useful to have a site, sort of like the TfL's engineering works page, that tells you what service(s) are unavailable due to strike that day?
I feel like if done by someone who believes in striking, it could be framed as supportive of the strikes, but providing a bit of awareness/notice for other members of the public.
I'm not necessarily thinking "so they can make other arrangements, necessarily", but more "ok, now I know not to bother heading to the train station" or "well, I don't have to wait in for the post today..!", so it avoids that wasted effort? I dunno, though....
Would it be useful to have a site, sort of like the TfL's engineering works page, that tells you what service(s) are unavailable due to strike that day?
I feel like if done by someone who believes in striking, it could be framed as supportive of the strikes, but providing a bit of awareness/notice for other members of the public.
I'm not necessarily thinking "so they can make other arrangements, necessarily", but more "ok, now I know not to bother heading to the train station" or "well, I don't have to wait in for the post today..!", so it avoids that wasted effort? I dunno, though....
ska invita
back on the other side
Someone was telling me recently many newspapers used to have an "industrial" section with the latest disputes, strikes and other labour news, a section presumably slowly made redundant post-Thatcher....might be time for those to come back now the end of history has ended
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I can't remember that in the daily papers tbh. I can remember some papers having small articles about who to vote for in Trade Union elections ( obviously right wing candidates) .
Socialist Worker used to have a double page section covering disputes/strikes near the back of their paper for years.
ska invita
back on the other side
Nor can I but it sounded plausible! I was born in early 70s though...and I took it to be a 70s thing, but maybe it was earlier? Or maybe it wasnt true.
News Line is actually good for this: basically filled with trade union news, latest outrages from Israel and a big dollop of pro-Russian/Iranian/Chinese propaganda <and amazingly thats a daily paper.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
teqniq
DisMembered
Heh.
www.theguardian.com
Support for striking workers declared by 600 Labour councillors
Exclusive: Open letter puts pressure on party’s stance on strikes amid talk of coordinated autumn action
Bingoman
Well-Known Member
I wonder what kier Starmer thinks of thatHeh.
Support for striking workers declared by 600 Labour councillors
Exclusive: Open letter puts pressure on party’s stance on strikes amid talk of coordinated autumn action
moochedit
I'm not feeding seagulls
I don't think today is a strike day. Think tommorow is though.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
If I was writing that column/updating that website, I'd always chuck a few extra made up strikes in to fuck stuff up just that little bit more
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Nope it is, checked on strikemap and today is the first day of a two day strike. I came back a separate route so I don't know if there were pickets later.Granted you don't actually need to picket a telephone exchange since whilst telecom engineer is a more interchangeable skillset than train driver, people with those skills are usually in well paid jobs rather than working for agencies.
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