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.

OP isn’t a small child that’s just been taken into care you know? They are a functioning adult.

I’m leaving now, this threads gone weird, some of us have post to deliver in the morning.

@Mamabear197 #bekind Get a grip! Telling people they should apologise to someone slagging off workers, likely with nefarious intentions, for exercising their legal right to strike! Just because they were in care! Being a care leaver has absolutely naff all to do with anything on this subject. Do you know if any of the other posters here are care leavers? NO you do not. The OP does not have care, compassion or respect for the workers currently striking, they told us they should suck it up, accept the dubious conditions without question and that the staff 'are lacking in credibility' for not being able to afford to live! Is that what a caring compassionate person says?

She’s still a care leaver who may be vulnerable and will almost certainly have had trauma in her childhood that may still be affecting her now.

You are utterly unreasonable in thinking you have any business telling striking workers what they should accept.

Oh yeah bless you OP, the workers should just suck it up! They shouldn't strike!

None of them are care leavers. after all!

But OP is a care leaver, so we must all
agree, @Mamabear197 says we must!

She may have been like that because of her trauma though, it may even not have even meant to have caused such a stir on her part. I don’t agree with her points but I’ve worked with people in care so I understand trauma and how that affects their behaviour as well.

@Mamabear197 oh you must be an expert then. And the only one with any experience of trauma and the care system. Thank you for coming here and lecturing us all on how to be kind. Us nasty meanies that we are!

Stop going on about trauma. You seem determined to make op relive her trauma. Are you trying to trigger op?

✊I'm 100% behind you! I'll be bringing water, food (probably Greg's 😂) when I pass your picket line next Wednesday?

Keep going, stand up for your rights!

Has anyone seen

@Mamabear197 and @Hitthehighseastoday

On the same post within five minutes of each other?

🤔

OP has disappeared, how odd!

You have treated OP appallingly and it’s not on

By striking all that will happen is that Royal Mail’s customers will use their competitors

"You"??

Lots of people on this thread have treated the OP in an appalling way

Yourself included

@Mamabear197 what's your view about the postal workers striking?

That's what this post is about!

Fully support the strikes

@Mamabear197 so how do you feel about the OP? very definite, they shouldn't strike, very emotive, they're getting 9% rise (true bit not true).

Do you think that everyone should assume that all OPs re care leavers and want that taken into consideration, therefore agree with them?

Or do you think that care leavers, have the right to assume that everyone should not treat them with kid gloves and assume they're perfectly able to have a justified view point and argue their case?

Am I a care leaver?

Is anyone else on this thread a care leaver?

Would that be why I keep seeing "staff wanted" signs up and was in a long queue for a toasted sandwich at the station because there was only one member of staff available? In a free market with a labour shortage you need to put wages up and offer attractive conditions to recruit and retain staff.

It's no longer a race to the bottom, those employers who offer the worst conditions will find themselves with no staff and no business. Talking of which, one Transpennine Express depot has lost 60 drivers who have left for better paid jobs on freight work. So workers who are treated poorly by those above them are leaving, with the resulting effect upon the service their former employer offers.

So you're not on your feet all day in all weathers? Perhaps you should walk in their shoes (literally) before saying that they don't deserve fair pay and conditions.

This is what bugs me...posties aren't refusing to modernise! I don't know how many times I need to say it. Posties are willing and able to make changes, modernise, do things differently.

We get the same bollocks spun about the railways by government ministers. Apparently we "refuse to modernise". Of course by "modernise" they mean "work an extra five hours per week for less total pay, and work more nights and weekends without the enhanced rates that compensate for these antisocial hours.

Wow OP and @Mamabear197 have exactly the same bedtime, what are the chances of that?