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Originally Posted by Flyboy
That would most definitely be illegal and land the employers in even more hot water. It is the fundamental right of all unionised employees to withdraw labour. The law, quite rightly, protects them in these circumstances.
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Although I don't necessarily disagree with the principal, but why just hire these extra people for a few just days? The strike is only for two days, so these extra temps will only be needed for what, four or five days? Have they all been thoroughly checked and trained for what is, essentially, just a week's work? Or have they been hired for longer, in order to push out the existing postal workers?
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Royal Mail are trying to flex their muscles as much as the workers, rightly or wrongly, are.
One thing about temporary workers, they cost less overall.
They can be hired and fired without much of a whimper, where is the countries sympathy then?
A major factor is Royal mail as any other company, do not have to pay the insurance for those temps, the agency they are hired from covers that angle.
How much training they receive in my experience is irrelevant.
We have had the same posty around here for yonks, and we're forever getting other people's mail!
How hard can it be ro relate a number on an envelope, printed I may add, not written, to the correct letter box?
Valid point on your last paragraph.
Where I work they are making redundant 80+ people from the offices down to the shop floor, so to say, I work in a warehouse.
The excuse given was a turn down in demand, and so the union went in to see management.
It transpires after talks with management, with the union looking through every piece of information the company have, that within a set period of them finishing up 80+ full time permanent workers they have already agreed to start a load of temps to fill those positions.
There is no history of dispute between the workers and the company in this case, it is imo the company using good old maggies workings to full effect.
It is Maggie and her cronies to blame for this environment we have with agencies etc;
In relation to the post office issue, both sides are digging their individual heels in.
Intersting that I heard not half hour ago that if the strike goes ahead TNT wants to put its workers on the streets to post letters.