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Original poster

is my friend ureasonable for starting a royal mail petition personally i dont think so

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lillaura123 · 03/08/2007 21:35

my friend started a petition on the 10 downing street website about Royal Mail
to Stop them Striking all the time.Please sign it here is the link to sign.
petitions.pm.gov.uk/RoyalMailStrikes/

since we have started signing she has suffered from horrible comments from posties etc - come on girls please help and sign up xx

OP posts:
themoon66 · 03/08/2007 21:36

What is the strike about? I understand it is not totally about pay.

Perhaps the strikers are at the end of their tethers.

elasticsortinghandstand · 03/08/2007 21:36

i think they ahve a valid reason for striking

expatinscotland · 03/08/2007 21:36

Huh?

I don't understand what the strike is about.

I wouldn't sign any petition against striking, though.

Nope. Never.

elasticsortinghandstand · 03/08/2007 21:36

lots of mail comes from TNT and they have to deliver it for them!
the are losing extra pay by having to start later in the morning.

2shoes · 03/08/2007 21:37

The postmen don't get paid when they strike so they will be hardly be doing it for fun
so yes yabu

expatinscotland · 03/08/2007 21:39

She started a petition because she's not getting her credit card statement on time?

Tell her to phone up the company themselves.

Why did you put this in AIBU if you want people to sign?

Becuase I'm going to keep bumping it so people WON'T.

RosaLuxembourg · 03/08/2007 21:39

Your friend is being most unreasonable. The right to strike was hard won. I wouldn't fancy living in any country where I didn't have the right to withdraw my labour. They tend not to boast the most liberal of regimes.

Bluestocking · 03/08/2007 21:41

Too right RL. OP, perhaps your friend would like to think about relocating to North Korea.

edam · 03/08/2007 21:41

Royal Mail are crap employers. For instance, they tried to threaten sub-postmasters who were being laid off, saying if they told their customers why their local post office was closing, anything other than the party line, they would lose their equivlent to redundancy money. Swines.

Tbh, you would be being unreasonable anyway, how on earth is a petition to the government going to stop strikes?

themoon66 · 03/08/2007 21:41

Perhaps if you, your friend and all your other friends stood behind the posties and supported them, they would get their issues sorted much quicker.

expatinscotland · 03/08/2007 21:42

Let's keep bumping! The fewer folk who sign, the better .

Original poster
lillaura123 · 03/08/2007 21:42

look the way i see it everyone is allowed there opinion and as i respect all of yours i also do hers - if they take no notice then that is their choice - but if the posties dont like their jobs for whatever reason is it really fair to effect evryone else - eventually people will get fed up of the strikes and just not bother with royal mail - thanks all for opinions

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expatinscotland · 03/08/2007 21:43

K, then why are you putting this in AIBU?

FFS, my husband's job has been directly affected by this strike. So what? His own boss is behind them!

They all make buttons.

mummyto2littleprincess · 03/08/2007 21:43

i think there just stupid keep striking

wannaBe · 03/08/2007 21:44

royal mail are crap employers. My friend's dh is a postee and their office have just made someone redundant and have increased the workloads of the others in the office but for no extra money.

they have a valid reason for striking imo so I won't be signing.

Your friend should do a bit more research before getting wound up about the post she won't be getting.

elasticsortinghandstand · 03/08/2007 21:44

it is not that they do not like their jobs.
their jobs are in jeapardy. they had a miniscule pay rise and are under threat of losing pay, through later starts. european law also made them have a 5 day week, rather than a 6 = more staff but also less pay

sparklygothkat · 03/08/2007 21:44

The strikes are not just about pay, my cousin is a postie and explained it all to me.

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 03/08/2007 21:44

i would stand behind posties who chioose to strike, if they didnt verbally abuse posties who choose to work on that day outside a school, nursery and private nursery at 8.45 in the morning. there is only so much effing and blinding one can take at that time of the morning.

Bluestocking · 03/08/2007 21:45

Perhaps expecting someone who doesn't know the difference between "there" and "their" to have much of a clue about industrial relations is a bit unrealistic.

elasticsortinghandstand · 03/08/2007 21:45

ouch

expatinscotland · 03/08/2007 21:46

, Bluestocking.

LadyVictoriaOfCake · 03/08/2007 21:46

that wasnt called for.

elesbells · 03/08/2007 21:46

thats the beauty of living in a democratic society. they can strike when employers treat them like shit. i wont be signing.

browniedropout · 03/08/2007 21:47

I'm totally with post people (my neighbour Post bicycle man(woman). Tough, early, difficult, dog defending, nutter de-escalating persons should earn decent wages... but what about my totally disinterested dh or pain in the bum dh. see browniedropouty?

expatinscotland · 03/08/2007 21:47

What isn't called for is repeated threads calling for people to screw over Britain's working poor.