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long time no see
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camelot
Barsoom
USA
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 Posted - 09/10/2009 : 04:41:30
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Will anyone notice??? The post is a dying institution...going the way of the telegraph office.
Internet taking over (stop) We will have to inovate to survive (stop) Online transactions replacing ...(end of Message) |
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Dingo
Barsoom
United Kingdom
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Posted - 09/10/2009 : 18:14:12
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| It's a real shame for the workers. My local Seaford "posties" are really helpful and work hard. However Mrs D's car is off road because the insurance certificate that is needed to get a tax disc is........sent 1st class last Monday. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
7257 Posts |
Posted - 13/10/2009 : 11:46:44
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| 22 Oct Thursday first National 2 Day Strike |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
7257 Posts |
Posted - 13/10/2009 : 17:19:04
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quote:
Originally posted by camelot
Will anyone notice??? The post is a dying institution...going the way of the telegraph office.
Internet taking over (stop) We will have to inovate to survive (stop) Online transactions replacing ...(end of Message)
Camelot you are So Wrong
a Small Business can go under
over this Stupid Strike.
The problem is New Labour Fund it
but have not Modernised it fast enough.
£1.5 Billion could be lost on a long strike.
We do not need that at this time.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1219956/National-post-strike-deliver-1-5billion-blow-struggling-economy.html |
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Infinite Poppadum
Discworld
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Posted - 14/10/2009 : 09:58:24
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| I can't see post surviving this strike. People will use e-mail. Other parcel firms will start. |
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camelot
Barsoom
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Posted - 14/10/2009 : 14:33:25
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Originally posted by Dingo
It's a real shame for the workers. My local Seaford "posties" are really helpful and work hard.
Yes, that is one big issue here in the US as well. The US Postal Service is caught between big efficient parcel firms like Fed EX, UPS, etc., and the huge increase in internet use. They are left with low rate "bulk" mail (read junk) and an ever shrinking publication delivery. That's the reality.
What we are losing here is a traditional source of jobs for people without doctorates. Like ATT and BT in the past, the post hires and pays a great many people. |
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Anubis
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Posted - 14/10/2009 : 18:15:37
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Anger amongst the postal workers reaches far beyond Royal Mail and its plans. There is resentment against the New Labour government and a strongly felt suggestion to ‘break the link’ with Gordon Brown and the Labour Party. Unelected business minister and de facto deputy prime minister, Peter Mandelson, pressed for a 30% Royal Mail sell-off, last March, in return for government commitment to fund its £8 billion pension deficit and guaranteeing the survival of the universal postal service.
Faced with widespread opposition throughout the labour movement and Labour backbenchers (and the general public?!), the government backtracked; it clearly remains the aim of the New Labour bureaucrats. Hostility to Labour, the party of government, has grown and grown – wider issues arising on a daily basis. Last month there was a consultative ballot of the CWU’s London membership. A crushing 96% voted in favour of ending affiliation -- the mood is unmistakable.
Rank and filers should be demanding union leaders withdraw their blank-cheque backing for Gordon Brown: finance to Labour should be dependent on the party agreeing to a set of minimum conditions, including a pledge to ditch privatisation once and for all, an end to the current government-backed Royal Mail offensive on jobs and conditions, and protection of hard-earned pensions for all workers. In the meantime support should only be offered to those Labour candidates prepared to accept key union demands.
In actual fact, the CWU leadership’s silence about the dispute is symptomatic of its lack (or even thought) of a campaign strategy. It desperately wants negotiations with Royal Mail to get ‘a deal’ and hopes the large majority of postmen and women for strike action will be a big enough stick. Unfortunately, CWU leaders are not sharing their thinking (with the membership) on what happens afterwards. If they succeed in getting to negotiate, the biggest danger for postal workers is that masses of jobs will be massacred – in pursuit of ‘profitability’.
Royal Mail is intent on sackings without consulting the workers themselves – postie’s objection is not to job losses as such: just that they should be carried out voluntarily, where possible, and then after duly agreed procedures. There is no objection to new technology and ‘modernization’ per se: working hours should be cut and pay and conditions improved as a result of more efficient working methods.
As far as most posties are concerned, their major concerns are not wages, as such, rather their efforts are concentrated on saving jobs; NOT a deal with Royal Mail that involves profitability before the concerns of those carrying out the job. Talk to your local postman -- get his or her point of view -- not that of the Sun editors!
The industry is crying out for rank and file organization; paramount is the need to encourage postal workers to move beyond the limits of trade union demands into the sphere of 'taking control of their own lives' (rather than leave it to union bosses) … into the realm of ‘politics’. In other words, a break with ‘Labourism’ must be the aim, not a break with Labour.
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 14/10/2009 : 18:58:40
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In London today over 12,000 Postal Workers are
on Illegal Strike.
As this National Strike gets closer
they are going to Seal up Post boxes in London Early.
This is Bad News.
Major Companies
are now finding Private Firms to take over their Orders.
This Illegal Strikes
is Criminal.
And the Evil National Strike
could be the Nail in the Coffin. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 20/10/2009 : 10:42:47
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
7257 Posts |
Posted - 21/10/2009 : 17:32:28
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Live on all Media TV and Radio
the Union Blames Outright New Labour for this Strike.
What a time to have 2 full days strike.
It starts in a few hours.
New Labour
has Failed the UK
Utter Fact
And the Union will do even more 2 days strikes
they just confirmed. |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Daveb
Earthsea
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Posted - 22/10/2009 : 21:01:52
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This will finish the Royal Mail as we know it.
Think about another aspect.....there are long term employees with pension rights that the current fund will not cover due to it being plundered by management and government.
If workers are sacked due to breaching their contract do they qualify for a pension? This could be a planned get out to avoid pension and redundancy payments. Cynical, Moi! |
We're all doomed!
Head for the hills before they start heading for you! |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
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Posted - 30/10/2009 : 20:12:37
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Our local posties are pleasant enough folks, there are three who cover this area and all have taken the time to get acquainted with dogs (this matters! a postie scared of dogs is like a window-cleaner scared of heights) and householders. The one chap doesn`t have a rush in him, so we know when he`s on as the post comes quite late, but I`ve passed him sitting on a wall round the corner having a fag break many times.
I`m watching the post at the moment waiting for 2 separate hospital appointments, and getting a bit anxious in case they get delayed in the post.
Yesterday, I`d begun to think the strike might be affecting us here, when stuff dropped through my letterbox (dog knows posties so doesn`t bark to announce them now). There were 2 envelopes, one from Sun Life addressed to my late (3 years) Hubby inviting him to take out life insurance, another informing me that I`ve won `5th Avenue PRECIOUS JEWELLERY. Poor old postie could have taken the day off as far as I was concerned! |
Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski! |
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
7257 Posts |
Posted - 31/10/2009 : 17:11:18
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"Two More Days Of Strikes By Postal Workers
Postal workers are to hold strikes on
Friday November 6 and Monday November 9,
the Communication Workers Union has anounced."
From SkyNews
Evil Gits
a Friday and Monday
and what happens on Saturday/Sunday
bugger all,
a Corrupt Long Weekend Strike. |
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National Postal Strike
