Thread: [Update] The Royal Mail strike thread
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Old 19-10-2009, 13:19   #263
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Re: [Update] The Royal Mail strike thread
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Originally Posted by arcamalpha2004 View Post
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.
If your employer fills those jobs with temporary/casual workers, it would be illegal and you would have been unfairly dismissed and your employer should, quite rightly, be brought to book.

If TNT do start delivering mail, it would be a sad day for the citizenship of this country. They do not have a universal delivery obligation; they will pick and choose what is most profitable and leave everyone else out in the cold.
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