muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
This is why RMT shouldn't have cancelled the last lot for the dead chief parasite. It emboldens these pricks
Strike!
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Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
It's not like I pay attention to these things anyway, but I didn't even know 'London Poppy Day' was a thing, separate from Remembrance Sunday 
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
Remembrance Sunday is a big earner for the pubs, not surprised there's some sort of spin off thing to capitalise on it.It's not like I pay attention to these things anyway, but I didn't even know 'London Poppy Day' was a thing, separate from Remembrance Sunday
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
Let's consistently call of strikes at the times when they'd me most effective, that'll help 
Its such an inconvenience - why not just cancel the whole fucking thing? (sarcasm).
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Only patriotic strikes will do. Fucking pathetic.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
arriva kent bus drivers accept new 13.9 % pay offer after strikes -
go-ahead london drivers accept new 10.5% pay offer after being about to ballot on strike action
www.theguardian.com
Kent Arriva bus drivers vote to end strike after pay increase
Arriva drivers will receive a 13.92% pay rise, backdated to 23 April.
www.bbc.co.uk
go-ahead london drivers accept new 10.5% pay offer after being about to ballot on strike action
Go-Ahead London bus workers secure 10.5% pay rise
Improved offer came as Unite union prepared to ballot members for industrial action
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Interview with an RMT militant on the strikes, the union and the wider situation.
www.angryworkers.org
Interview – Transport for London worker and RMT rep – On recent rail strikes – October 2022 - Angry Workers
We are seeing an increase in strike action in the UK, which is a good thing, but we don’t know much about the experiences and views of workers who are involved in them. We rely on the official statements of the trade union press officers, which doesn’t help us to answer the main questions when
www.angryworkers.org
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Why is this a bad thing? To have any chance of winning this strike the RMT needs to keep the public onside or at least not alienate them completely. The same as with striking during Brenda's funeral they had to decide which of cancelling the strike or continuing with it would play better with public opinion. It's a difficult choice personally I feel Lynch made the right one.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Less public opinion, more likely members' opinion. You need to ensure the maximum number of members actually strike for it to be effective. What you don't want is your more patriotic-minded members wavering. You want a solid strike turnout, you need to pick your moment for maximum effect.
teqniq
DisMembered
Well this is really shit:
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
That's utterly shameful if it's just two guys they can surely work out some kind of medical severance package.
Utterly shameful. Companies seem to underestimate just how much shit like that can unify a workforce. Hope they manage to get the company to back down
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
For some bosses every employee's personal cloud has an economic silver lining.
In this case it's being able to reduce labour costs (even if only marginally).
Obviously it is at the expense of the workers' quality of end of life, but hey ho those share holder dividends and executive bonuses won't make themselves.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
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hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Royal Mail have managed to get the strikes suspended for two weeks with legal threats:
Royal Mail staff call off planned strike action
The strikes planned for the next two weeks will not take place but action will resume on 12 November.
www.bbc.co.uk
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
Yep those are the new dates. The rolling action sector by sector (e.g. deliveries one day, distribution the next) has been called off following a legal challenge from RM which threatened both strike ballots in their entirety.
So we are now targeting black Friday and cyber Monday with more dates in the run up to Christmas.
RM has made a new offer, which if anything is even worse than their original one (it is no longer back dated and it only provides 1.5% for next year). This will be put to members in a workplace ballot with a very firm recommendation to reject; I don't think the recommendation is needed, people can see it for what it is.
Onwards and upwards - Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
At a meeting this morning our office manager informed us that RM is looking to remove over 350 hours per week work from our office; this is the equivalent of three and a half full time posts plus a large amount of overtime. They went on to say that they were given this information at a meeting with 40 other delivery office managers all facing similar cutbacks; as they said 'we all had our heads in our hands'.
We were then asked to come up with suggestions for new ways of working that could deliver both the p[proposed cut in hours and delivery targets. The manager suggested moving to Monday to Friday postal and parcel delivery for all staff, with Saturday and Sunday parcels only service to be worked as overtime on a sixth/seventh working day. The idea of his being that currently the best part of 100 walks or rounds are failing every week; by failing all walks on Saturday this would reduce the amount to 46 failures. It was gently pointed that this wouldn't solve the problem of failing walks since there was an absolute certainty that walks would still fail in the week due to lack of cover for absent staff (on sick leave or annual leave for example) and that it would demand a significant increase in the number of people working 6 and 7 days a week.
This is just another example of how committed RM is to breaking the postal service in pursuit of their objective of running a casualised parcel courier operation. Colleagues are not impressed and we do feel that we are really up against it, both in terms of defending our pay and conditions and perhaps more importantly the service we provide. So if you are in positions where you are approached for help by the CWU or where you can reach out to your local posties or where you can just spread the message about what is at stake any help would be much appreciated.
We aren't going anywhere but we do need your support to see this through.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
We were then asked to come up with suggestions for new ways of working that could deliver both the p[proposed cut in hours and delivery targets. The manager suggested moving to Monday to Friday postal and parcel delivery for all staff, with Saturday and Sunday parcels only service to be worked as overtime on a sixth/seventh working day. The idea of his being that currently the best part of 100 walks or rounds are failing every week; by failing all walks on Saturday this would reduce the amount to 46 failures. It was gently pointed that this wouldn't solve the problem of failing walks since there was an absolute certainty that walks would still fail in the week due to lack of cover for absent staff (on sick leave or annual leave for example) and that it would demand a significant increase in the number of people working 6 and 7 days a week.
This is just another example of how committed RM is to breaking the postal service in pursuit of their objective of running a casualised parcel courier operation. Colleagues are not impressed and we do feel that we are really up against it, both in terms of defending our pay and conditions and perhaps more importantly the service we provide. So if you are in positions where you are approached for help by the CWU or where you can reach out to your local posties or where you can just spread the message about what is at stake any help would be much appreciated.
We aren't going anywhere but we do need your support to see this through.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
The answer you should give to that is "How the fuck do I know and why the fuck should I care?"
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
The actual response was more along the lines of stop RM lying to us, give us more resources and let us do our jobs...with with a little added fuck the fuck off!
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Well, UCU are going with three days, which I think is more than some expected.
Over to us UNISON branches with a mandate... Honestly don't know what our members will think.
Over to us UNISON branches with a mandate... Honestly don't know what our members will think.
elbows
Well-Known Member
NHS England have started planning for how to cope with strikes, including 'Exercise Arctic Willow'.
They've been sending this sort of thing to management:
They've been sending this sort of thing to management:
Bingoman
Well-Known Member
Hundreds of workers to strike at Heathrow Airport in run-up to World Cup
Passengers using five major airlines are set to face the threat of disruption for at least three days from 18 November as 700 contractors, including ground handlers, prepare to walk out in pay disputes.
news.sky.com
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
"AROUND 700 workers at Princes Group sites across the UK, including at Bradford, have been secured a pay rise worth 11.5% through the efforts of Unite the Union.
The workers at four sites, located in Glasgow, Bradford, Cardiff and Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, will receive a seven per cent pay rise backdated to April 2022 plus a £750 one off payment. The deal was negotiated without the need for industrial action."
www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
The workers at four sites, located in Glasgow, Bradford, Cardiff and Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, will receive a seven per cent pay rise backdated to April 2022 plus a £750 one off payment. The deal was negotiated without the need for industrial action."
Bradford's Princes food workers to receive pay rise
AROUND 700 workers at Princes Group sites across the UK, including at Bradford, have been secured a pay rise worth 11.5 per cent through the efforts…
A con tactic to try to wear down the workers? We'll have to see, but I wouldn't be too surprised if this gives the bosses the upper hand now, though I hope not.
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Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Would love to know just what "intensive negotiations" means... 
But aye, fingers crossed it's positive for the members, and not the bosses pulling a fast one. Would presume the RMT organisers wouldn't be taken in too easily?
But aye, fingers crossed it's positive for the members, and not the bosses pulling a fast one. Would presume the RMT organisers wouldn't be taken in too easily?
stethoscope
Well-Known Member
Looks like RCN have voted for strike action...
www.theguardian.com
Nurses across UK vote to strike in first ever national action
Exclusive: walkout over pay due to take place before Christmas
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