Royal Mail Group Plans to Cut 40,000 Jobs, Sunday Times Says

[Danelectro]

Well what you would find if it came to it would probably be a question of leasing the vehicle to the casual until the current fleet ran out, then they would have the chance to purchase or provide their own.

A pal from Perth said Australia Post had put some of the delivery sectors in the outback up for franchise,im sure
thats an option they are looking at for the Highlands and Islands,or collection centres ,bastards

[DirtyHarry]

And the work these 40,000 people currently do, does that disappear with them?

It would be much better, and would put less of a strain on the service, if the number of executives, most on salaries we would need several lifetimes to earn, was cut drastically.

Remember, none of those parasites will deliver your mail, too beneath them.

[3431simon]

He comes owner drivers - I'll have one of those thanks. Self employed all the tax benifets possible VAT registered - bring it on.

[jockstrapp]

Give me f#ckin redundancy then they only have to get rid of 39999

[Danelectro]

He comes owner drivers - I'll have one of those thanks. Self employed all the tax benifets possible VAT registered - bring it on.

Yeah its amazing what the free market can do, a little wave of the franchise wand and work that is currently vastly
overpaid for in an industry that is in perpetual decline can suddenly make you stinking rich. either that
or you could invest in the sub prime mortgage market

[Night Tonic]

Wouldn't matter if you went on strike for six months, the jobs will still go and heard all this drum banging twaddle on here too many times. We're in a recession now and RML is losing a lot of its profitable direct marketing stuff while businesses tighten their belts.

[steven100]

Wouldn't matter if you went on strike for six months, the jobs will still go and heard all this drum banging twaddle on here too many times. We're in a recession now and RML is losing a lot of its profitable direct marketing stuff while businesses tighten their belts.

Recession...No. It ended months ago.

[NON-FLEXIBILE]

40,000 JOB LOSSES OVER 5 YEARS

is that including the 3 year agreement with the CWU to reduce 8,000 jobs a year until 2013. (what agreement was this )
i dont recall seeing this in any LTB"s or Billy and Dave mentioning it ??
:dcfo

[fishtank]

Wouldn't matter if you went on strike for six months, the jobs will still go and heard all this drum banging twaddle on here too many times. We're in a recession now and RML is losing a lot of its profitable direct marketing stuff while businesses tighten their belts.

Businesses are really tightening them belts NT.
Jobs go...the rich get richer and the spineless sit back and accept it because the Sun tells us we are in this together and everyone has to make sacrifices...blah,blah,blah.
Only it's not really like that for everyone is it?

Bosses’ pay rises defy downturn http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/b ... 917170.ece" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
James Ashton
The pay of chief executives has carried on rising despite soaring unemployment and widespread pay freezes for rank-and-file workers.

The average five-year pay package of a FTSE 100 boss is £9.6m, according to research compiled by Patterson Associates, a remuneration adviser. The figure, which is rising annually at 7.9%, or seven times the rate of inflation, includes salary, bonuses and long-term incentives..............

Gullible's Travails Nighty...

[barbario]

The first thing we should do is back our London postmen. Last week i'd said no to helping London posties but we have to look at the long-term picture. Hopefully we'll get short term pain long term gain.

Glad to hear that steven100
I was beginning to despair of some of the posts on this forum.

baldrick have you ever walked out for someone before mate.as i keep sayin and i prob no am borin the sh@@ out of everyone but i dont give a feck.we lost our mail centre and jobs did anyone walk out for us BIG FAT NO.and no am not a manager as some dick said on here.

I work with Baldrick,and i can tell you brother we have walked out plenty of times over the years to help other area's fight their cause.Regarding recent office closures, we can't remember being asked to help others,otherwise i think we would have done.If you want to lay down and be beaten and shifted by Royal Mail then thats down to you pal,but we will fight on regardless.

[norwichchris]

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[Cut Off King]

EVR please

[dvbuk55]

Well that is a point in question, you were never asked to help because the powers that be were perfectly happy for the closures to take place.

[stephen500]

if we don't fight now we never will

They never will. A union requires members to back each other, ours is full of members who care for only them selves. Plus when I started you had to join the union. Now days they can leave or not join at all. Already in my office to paraphrase "why should I fight for London, they didn't do any thing, as a union to prevent other mail centre closures". The working man is stuffed, we are on the drive to the bottom for terms and conditions. The rich will get richer, see banker bonuses, while the rest can have the crumbs.

[gb93]

So is this 40 000 more jobs than the 24 000 agreed in BT2010.
Or 40 000 over 5 years opposed to the agreed 24 000 over 3 years.