strikes past and present

doorstep it · Post by **doorstep it** » 26 Sep 2007, 19:27

This is the 1st strikes i have been involved with at the Royal Mail. How does this compare to other strikes in the past?
Seems to me that the management are inept vicious A-holes, were they the same in the past???

DirtyHarry · Post by **DirtyHarry** » 26 Sep 2007, 19:37

This is probably the most important dispute we've ever had. Royal Mail through Leighton & Crozier, not only want to attack our pay, our terms and
conditions of work, our jobs, they want to make sure they reach out into the future and attack us when we've grown old and have retired, by savaging
our pensions.

As to your other question, have managers always been largely arseholes, the simple, shortest answer is YES!

mailman71 · Post by **mailman71** » 26 Sep 2007, 19:53

we were on strike in 71 our fight was with the goverment we were out for 7 weeks, iwas just a youngster then but there was a lot of bitterness as you would expect when there is no pay coming in

Post by **dvbuk55** » 26 Sep 2007, 19:55

Well that was 36 years ago old 'un and it left you with a stutter