It's called giving a different opinion and people sharing their experiences. It's nothing to do with being a coward so your "all for one and one for all "rallying call falls flat on its face when you start abusing people who are sharing what they are dealing with on a daily basis.fishtank wrote:There's a lot of justifying cowardice and self interest going on in this thread, there's absolutely no need to slag off colleagues or invent "golden pensions" or talk about how a completely unworkable "work to rule" would be so much better.
It's an anonymous forum, if you're too scared to strike or you're more interested in yourself than others just be honest. Nobody knows who you are....well except yourself of course and I'm sure you can handle looking at yourself in the mirror.
Those who believe in the core ethos of the trade union movement, that an injury to one is an injury to all will support the call for strike action no matter what has gone on in the past. The rest will make up excuses in an attempt to convince themselves that they're not really self interested cowards. You're not convincing me and I doubt to be honest that you're really convincing yourselves.
You seem to be totally ignoring how some part timers or lesser timed service posties feel on various issues. Which is unlikely to get them to vote to strike on something which they perceive as unlikely to affect them.
I have thrown out some points for debate here to make more people think about their colleagues. I remember when I started I had some good lads around me who looked after me and treated me as one of their own. Unfortunately a lot of those have left or retired and those that are left are selfish sods who only look out for themselves and do nothing to help new starters and don't care about part timers being made up.
I remember when a full timer was leaving a fellow colleague came and said "you'll be full time in 2 weeks xxxx has handed in his notice." Then the full timers would be on at the manager to make sure I was made up on that date.
Now I work with full timers who just say "you've got no chance of full time anymore mate" but go and ask the managers for early hours for themselves. While part timers are left scrapping around for overtime to try and get near the 39 hour mark. So asking these guys to not do overtime over this pension issue is not going to happen. I guarantee it.
My point is it isn't one for all and a lot of part timers and newer posties feel let down by colleagues who aren't fighting for them on other important issues. So I'm saying it's a good time for everyone to look at each colleague alongside each other and start to treat each other like we used to.
Be honest, how many full timers would go out on strike to get more part time jobs made up to full time? I would but I can say about 80% of the full timers in my office wouldn't. Yet these full timers will want the other guys going out to support them over this.
Calling people cowards etc is keeping your head firmly in the sand to what actually does go on where part timers feel screwed by full timers. You only need to read these pages on a daily basis to see that. It's also not very helpful to start the name calling either is it?
I know the PTers get a shite deal and it doesn't take a lot of effort to just give them a bit of encouragement. 