Strike Ballot coming up

[worktotime]

Workotime go back and see done 15 years delivery also done over 5 working machines so I have done most jobs on the post and seen a lot of changes since the eighties and our managers watch us 24 / 7 as they have isotrack which pinpoints us and let's them know if your having a leak .. They now if your on route or somewhere you should not be. You get set times and they are tight but that is life

just one question have you done the new way forward p&l 2 and a half duties btw the 2 of yer , its not a case of being were your suppose to be mate , its a case of a 5 1/2 hour delivery and another 40 mins each everyday lapsing , weve now got some comeing from processing trying delivery as the mail center is closeing , some have lasted a day and said there would take the money and go so that says it all.

[crookes]

The media are state controlled as well so the union won't be able to get a brilliant message across even though they could try harder. Anybody who doesn't think the media is controlled by the government and media barons who support them is naive. We won't win popularity contests with this strike as the media will portray us as greedy and overpaid. However we know the truth and that is all that matters. We are fighting to protect not just our jobs but a great public service. Been following this theme and there are some right soft soapers coming on here. Show you really care about your job and your customers by doing the right thing when the time comes..[ Murdoch controlled by government I don't think so.]

Definitely state controlled hence the demonisng of certain sections of society including quite often unions. Outrage about Moya and the money for her cosy little pad lasted a few hours. Point in case mate! One of the first places she visited when she arrived in the UK? 10 Downing Street!!! Wonder Why?

[Lincox]

Popped in to see David for her £250K handout. Heard that she asked for his week end pad somewhere in Buckinghamshire, but he had already leased it out to a few thousand illegals, and there was no more room at the inn.

[cloherty1976]

Crookes I thought they were her employers . Where else would you go..

[cloherty1976]

Workotime if you done your research my brother on delivery and has a second job so I know what it's like. He copes but I just wanted more time with family as used to do the same so decided to drive the artics for the money and more time at home with kids .

[BingBong]

I'll be voting a fat yes to everything and I def can't afford it. Need to look at the bigger picture not just a few quid in the short term!

[gb93]

Striking will only serve to antagonise our masters.
This could lead them to withdraw our excellent terms & conditions they allow us to enjoy.

[clashcityrocker]

Striking will only serve to antagonise our masters.
This could lead them to withdraw our excellent terms & conditions they allow us to enjoy.

And we never should bite the hand that feeds?

[gb93]

Striking will only serve to antagonise our masters.
This could lead them to withdraw our excellent terms & conditions they allow us to enjoy.

And we never should bite the hand that feeds?

Ah a like minded realist.
Remember "the meek shall inherit the earth".

[bunkerland]

Remember "the meek shall inherit the earth".

Just remind us all what happened to the person who came out with that little gem?

[Sidley]

No one knows, he was an anonymous religious hack.

[clashcityrocker]

Striking will only serve to antagonise our masters.
This could lead them to withdraw our excellent terms & conditions they allow us to enjoy.

And we never should bite the hand that feeds?

Ah a like minded realist.

I put a question mark at the end for a reason.
I certainly wouldn't put myself in the "like-minded realist" camp.

[gb93]

Striking will only serve to antagonise our masters.
This could lead them to withdraw our excellent terms & conditions they allow us to enjoy.

And we never should bite the hand that feeds?

Ah a like minded realist.

I put a question mark at the end for a reason.
I certainly wouldn't put myself in the "like-minded realist" camp.

You will come round colleague.

[fishtank]

“Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.” Eugène Ionesco

Nowhere represents the Theater Of The Absurd better than a good old fashioned Royal Mail farce.

[chrisj]

Is the government or RM really worried about us going on Strike? Or are they just double-bluffing into making fall into a Trap that will not only harm our Union but all other Unions going forwards. (This is the Tory government after all).

Like I said before they have taken the CWU by surprise and almost now back them into a corner... CWU has been quiet - what are they planning to do to stop Privatisation?

Stopping Privatisation or convincing the Public to reject Privatisation is the only way to protect our conditions of work and the best way for some sort of longer-term job security for the FT and/or Permanent staff.

Lastly, I will definitely vote No for a Xmas strike - hurting ordinary folks around Xmas is unfair and has often been counter-productive.

But if the CWU provides me with a good argument (not done so yet) then I might vote Yes. Either way, it is about the majority - one is either in or out!