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i heard anything south of gretna is full of southern nancys whining with london loading
What did you say?
What did you say?
No sorry didn't get that, can you speak English please, damned accent, can't understand a thing, you might aswell be speaking Urdu!
What did you say?
No sorry didn't get that, can you speak English please, damned accent, can't understand a thing, you might aswell be speaking Urdu!
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You what? Pardon? Excuse me? What? No, sorry, didn't get that, say it again, no, say it again, say it again, say it again...................................
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Sick of the bloody strike now. Im waiting for all my mail order porn, as well as my russian bride application pack .
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Strike has ruined a mates stag do. Waiting on our fancy dress which will now be turning up too late. Great.
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Nah on the serious side I missed out on a good job cause of this!. Would I be able to sue for damages? :chin:
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why did you send it via a time guaranteed service? :chin:
i cant believe you didnt know about the upcoming strikes,you would think people didnt post news links
we had the same crap exactly 4 years ago with RM. even when RM staff voted against strikes we still had the london problems. the CWU knew that london was the leverage they needed so they focuses on causing trouble there. people are easily led and the CWU is a famous trouble maker. they act in a very short sighted way, the long term stability of RM should be a priority for CWU, but that is the one thing they damage most. justice would be RM going out of business and their private sector competitors taking over. that fate was ultimately decided when the CWU blocked privatisation.
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no point doing it themselves while they can use RM and its cheaper for them. they take the profit, RM do all the work. it wouldnt happen if RM went private. my next door neighbour is a typical postie, he goes on strike to avoid abuse from the 'extremists' but he doesnt really care about the issues. yet again a minority ruin it for the majority.
I've had no post since last Wednesday, the bad news, I'm waiting for cheques, parcels, job resonses, the good news, I haven't had a bill through my door for a week!
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Postal talks end without agreement
The TUC has hosted talks between CWU and Royal Mail over the last week. Those talks were specifically aimed at reaching a settlement with a view to averting the two 48hour strikes commencing Thursday 4th and Monday 8th October.
Clearly that process has now come to an end without an agreement. Real progress has been made in many areas, but there is agreement in none. The offer includes a pay increase of 6.9% over two years but this is subject to linking unacceptable strings including a reduction in pensions benefits. Royal Mail’s proposals also include flexibility proposals that mean, among other things, that postal workers will not know what job they are doing from one day to the next.
The CWU’s Postal Executive will now meet to consider the position reached through talks. Royal Mail continue to implement change without agreement. The union has already announced more strikes and these will continue. In the strikes over the last three days support among CWU’s 130,000 members has been overwhelming.
Billy Hayes, General Secretary, said “Royal Mail’s claims regarding the numbers of people at work are a poor attempt to detract from the truth that postal workers are rejecting their proposals in overwhelming numbers. They should stop using their efforts to spin and start putting them into reaching an agreement.”
CWU remains available for talks with Royal Mail.
The TUC has hosted talks between CWU and Royal Mail over the last week. Those talks were specifically aimed at reaching a settlement with a view to averting the two 48hour strikes commencing Thursday 4th and Monday 8th October.
Clearly that process has now come to an end without an agreement. Real progress has been made in many areas, but there is agreement in none. The offer includes a pay increase of 6.9% over two years but this is subject to linking unacceptable strings including a reduction in pensions benefits. Royal Mail’s proposals also include flexibility proposals that mean, among other things, that postal workers will not know what job they are doing from one day to the next.
The CWU’s Postal Executive will now meet to consider the position reached through talks. Royal Mail continue to implement change without agreement. The union has already announced more strikes and these will continue. In the strikes over the last three days support among CWU’s 130,000 members has been overwhelming.
Billy Hayes, General Secretary, said “Royal Mail’s claims regarding the numbers of people at work are a poor attempt to detract from the truth that postal workers are rejecting their proposals in overwhelming numbers. They should stop using their efforts to spin and start putting them into reaching an agreement.”
CWU remains available for talks with Royal Mail.
Billy Hayes' response to Gordon Brown.
Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, in response to Gordon Brown’s comments on the postal strikes this morning, said:
“Government money is being squandered by Royal Mail management who seem intent on privatisation. Secretary of state for Business and Enterprise, John Hutton, is the invisible man in this dispute. The Minister’s absence is encouraging the wreckers at the head of the company who have no public service values.”
Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, in response to Gordon Brown’s comments on the postal strikes this morning, said:
“Government money is being squandered by Royal Mail management who seem intent on privatisation. Secretary of state for Business and Enterprise, John Hutton, is the invisible man in this dispute. The Minister’s absence is encouraging the wreckers at the head of the company who have no public service values.”
depends which side of the fence you're on billy boy, imo the CWU are wasting govt money because they have been blocking privatisation for as long as i've been alive.
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anf the irony is the low wages,long hours and conditions are the reason
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I wouldn't really say the wages are that low tbh. At the end of the day its a job anyone physically able can do. You don't need HNC's,HND's a Degree, A-Levels or in most cases GCSE's.
