The British Public should nevcer be underestimated for their intelligence - they have seen what's happened with every previous privatisation of a public utility - the service is cut to the bone to provide ever greater profits for the shareholders.
They know it will be no different with Royal Mail - they are already seeing it - SDD, later deliveries, PO closures, increasing cost of postage, no Sunday collections, earlier collections, reduced collections, the list just goes on and on.
The public know that the bosses of Royal Mail don't give a s**t about them and that includes small businesses. RM is only interested in the BIG mailers the same as TNT and the rest of them. And all the time they pay this lip service to a USO governed by Postcomm who seem to be on a determined campaign to also destroy Royal Mail which comes as no surprise given their close links to our only shareholder - The Government.
And journalists - most of them are too lazy to even understand what the strike's about, others are told the headline before they even start writing the story and some follow the political tune of their masters. But you know, the public know all about that as well and are capable of seeing through the crap that's written.
The only thing that can win this strike is the solidarity of the CWU - if that fails, then we all fail and so does our once-proud company and the service to the public that it is famous for. It's nice to have public support but at the end of the day Victory lies in our hands not anyone else's
Even the strike breakers and managers know that if the union is destroyed then everyone will be fair game - this company is itching to get rid of MTSF and bring in compulsory redundancy. sad thing is they won't chop the thousands of managers with no jobs involved in fantasy projects or garden leave - naw, as usual, they will make ordinary workers their priority.
AL is walking a tightrope at the moment as the big Xmas mailers will be issuing threats right left and centre and if the pull their business the company is probably a busted flush but then AL will have nothing worthwhile to sell so won't get a share in the equity of the new company he is trying to create from the ashes of Royal Mail after he destroys it.
My heart weeps for him especially as he has given up a day every week to mastermind our future - Ha bloody Ha.
) we had total support from the general public and we had to explain to a lot of them that its not all about pay and when we spent the time explaining our situation to the public we got total support from the public for our cause