To think Royal Mail workers should not be striking

[Hitthehighseastoday]

They’ve already been offered a 9% pay raise and declined. Royal Mail is already making a loss. It’s a national service for the public which is now being severely disrupted by strikes, it’s appalling.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Hitthehighseastoday maybe you should join a Union?

Union is strength

✊

I’m not spineless. But I’m not ruthless. I’m not cold hearted and mean. I do have compassion, even demonstrated this in the work place on multiple occasions.

@Hitthehighseastoday yeah PP just wrote that!! 🙄

Fair enough. The thing is though, the strikes are affecting customers, and if the strikes keep going on then customers will use royal Mail’s competitors instead which will put the members (the unions members) jobs in danger again

No need to be rude

They did. They called off strikes over 2 weeks if I remember right, as RM bosses were promising to come to a settlement of some sort just before a meeting /report to shareholders. (Bit fuzzy on details but gist is correct.) RM then faffed around enough to be able to give a positive-ish "we're making progress" talk, then promptly stopped turning up to meetings and reneged on things they had previously agreed on.

Hence strikes restarting.

Should have quoted:

But the union should call off strike action at the same time while speaking with the company.

The thing is though, the strikes are affecting customers,

that is the whole idea about a strike - withdraw labour

if the new terms and conditions of the job mean you'd be out of a job, what would you have to lose?

Royal Mail haven’t covered themselves in glory here but neither have the union.

@Hitthehighseastoday if the ceo has his way customers are going to be effected anyway! He doesn't care about the customers or he would be meeting us round the table for negotiations and putting an end to these strikes! He wants rid of us all, like p&o so he's digging his heels in.

If he agrees to negotiate then the union would call off the strikes.
Do you know he sits on the workplace app antagonising employees? By posting passive aggressive pictures of his watch on his wrist, outside cwu building? And selfies of him sitting in his car?
What ceo behaves like that!?

You’ve only quoted half my post.

Honestly there is no point discussing anymore with the OP. A case of in one ear out the other going on here.

This is such a serious allegation though which needs to be backed up with evidence unfortunately otherwise it could legally be considered unfounded at best, potentially defamatory at worst. As wrong as that is it’s how the law works

Hitthehighseastoday

I didn't think the rest of your post was really worthwhile repeating

The thing is though as well, Royal Mail haven’t actually broken the law in what they are doing yet.

That’s because you was taking the first part of my post completely out of context

@Hitthehighseastoday go on to the cwu Facebook page and you will have all the evidence you need! He's not trying to hide it! I'm not making anything up! Everyone who is on the workplace app has saw the pictures. I'm sure Simon Thompson is aware people can see it.

Are you in a union? What sector do you work in?

I’ll have a look now, hold on

No @Hitthehighseastoday I'm not in Union!

And which sector do you work in?

And neither have you! With your lack of knowledge are your ludicrous examples of your work hours changing, as you'd been promoted and agreed different hours!

@Hitthehighseastoday financial, what sector do you work in?

I’m not spineless. But I’m not ruthless. I’m not cold hearted and mean. I do have compassion, even demonstrated this in the work place on multiple occasions.
What have any of those qualities have to do with standing up for yourself and your right to fair working conditions.
Can only imagine you have been beaten down by years of this awful Tory government, who won't be happy until we return to a time when us working folk knew our place.
The Royal Mail's USP should be they are an ethical employer and set the gold standard for other delivery companies, not join in race to the bottom.