MoNkEyBoY wrote: Just one question peejay if you chose to cross a picket line how could you work in the same office along side your fellow colleagues and look them in the eye.
Do you allways let others fight for you as what ever we may achieve out of this dispute you will benefit aswell dont you think considering everythink that your actions could be deemed as selfish.
I hope to avoid having to suffer the looks from fellow union strikers, by working in another office. If they want to strike, that's fine by me, I won't hold it against them
I just want to work, not oppose my good friends at the office who are in the union and doing what they think is right. If I wanted to oppose them, I would simply breeze through their picket line and stake my foolish claim on the mail room floor, as if I knew better than them. Well I don't believe that I do know any better than anybody else caught up in this industrial action. So I'll just go about my business on Saturday, if it comes to that, and hope not to be recognised.
I AM a postie, but perhaps just not in the regular mould. I find this strike very frustrating and off-putting. I am angry with both sides, and just wish they would let me get on with the job of delivering mail, as I have been happily doing for the past 17 months, while there is still the demand out there for posties. I didn't join the Royal Mail because I agreed with their terms and conditions of employment, I joined because I wanted to deliver mail. I can see why my actions may be deemed as selfish by some, but I think that selfish is the wrong word. It's more that the challenge of completing my round in the time permitted is enough for me, and motivating myself to achieve this is more than enough for me. Focussed, I think, is a more suitable word, on the job at hand. Single minded, yet not in the fight. Refusing to be distracted by the noise in both ears. Carrying on as if nothing is happening, and hoping not to get caught in the cross-fire. Not in the union. An easy target... help.
