a day off for me tomorrow

Originally Posted by keithd

I called him a scab anyway, just for fun. y'know.

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

yea SCAB SCAB SCAB!!

So why are you not on the picket line then?

Originally Posted by Steve H

Fair enough, but that could be said about the majority of large employers
in this day and age.
Quite frankly, being able to work at the same job for the same employer for over 18 years is a benefit these days.

it was only about 3 or 4 years ago when i would have said i felt proud working for RM it has been a very good employer in the past but that was when customer service came first not money, the royal mail will be privatized and it will go the way all the other private firms have gone, sadly people in the remote farms and villages wont get a postman they will have to fetch there mail themselves, royal mail deliver to these types of addresses virtually free everyday it may even cost the business to take there mail, this will all stop and only major town and city's will get delivery's to the door because thats where the money is, people take it for granted that you order something off ebay and the postie brings it shortly after. the price of mail is also going to treble in the coming years, the uk has the cheapest mail prices but not for long.

Originally Posted by Steve H

So why are you not on the picket line then?

honest? i'm lazy

Originally Posted by sarah

as i understand it, employer's contributions to a pension fund for employees is part of the benefits for the employee like getting a company car etc. i think lots of people accept getting a crapper salary in return for a decent pension contribution, seems unfair if you put up with the rubbish pay and then get your pension taken away

Small print..... You don't get anything for nothing in this world. Whenever I have the opportunity for a company pension, I negotiate that it goes into a pension of my choice, even if that means taking a little less. That way they find it harder to reclaim.

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a small part of my pension AVC is with Norwich union.

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

One day we'll regret the death of the unions.

In the grand scheme of things, I don't think we will. This isn't the victorian times where health, safety, welfare, exploitation etc laws were unheard of, and where if you quit the job you were doing you had no choice of getting another.

I've read an RMT poster in a London Underground staff room before, basically saying that LU workers have it sweet, but they've gotta keep kicking up a fuss otherwise LU bosses will start trying to compramise their jobs again

It seems to me that Unions are run by people even greedier than the company bosses they vilify, who fight any kind of change or even progress, determined to keep business uncompetative.

Originally Posted by Flamin_Squirrel

In the grand scheme of things, I don't think we will. This isn't the victorian times where health, safety, welfare, exploitation etc laws were unheard of, and where if you quit the job you were doing you had no choice of getting another.

I've read an RMT poster in a London Underground staff room before, basically saying that LU workers have it sweet, but they've gotta keep kicking up a fuss otherwise LU bosses will start trying to compramise their jobs again

It seems to me that Unions are run by people even greedier than the company bosses they vilify, who fight any kind of change or even progress, determined to keep business uncompetative.

Squirrel, That never happened with British Leyland in the late 70's......much.

Postal workers: Lets drag them down, cut their pay, and cut jobs. Why should they be treated any different? While we're at it, lets drag everyone else down - we'll all feel so much better about our own spineless subservience.
Michael Brandon, Taunton

taken from the bbc web site.

I think we all forget that the competition don't want to deliver your personal letter to anyone,they want buisness mail only,

support your mail system and not accept the dutch postal system you could end up with.

mentioning that postie's are unskilled is not from somebody who has ever done it,in the rain or middle of the winter when conditions are not suitable to be driving never mind walking.

I for one support my postie who works hard and is always helpful.
Mark, Bristol

ok so i'm bored and i should be standing outside my work place still bored