Why are we still waiting for a ballot?

[SpacePhoenix]

I hope when they do announce it it will be all over bbc,itv,sky,channel 4,5 , make it a massive announcement not like years gone by a 5 second clip and you miss it. Come on comms lets ramp it up and put the pressure on lets see your best.

RMT grabbing all the headlines at the moment - people not being able to get to work/school/hospital appointments tends
to concentrate peoples minds. We'll (CWU) be well behind the curve and be branded in the main stream right leaning media
as 70's dinosaurs in a dying industry that needs modernising.

The bizarre thing is that the biggest disruption will come from the drivers striking who are mostly represented by ASLEF not RMT.

The biggest disruption will actually come from the Network Railway staff. Without the signallers, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL ANYWHERE can run

[TopperGas]

I hope when they do announce it it will be all over bbc,itv,sky,channel 4,5 , make it a massive announcement not like years gone by a 5 second clip and you miss it. Come on comms lets ramp it up and put the pressure on lets see your best.

RMT grabbing all the headlines at the moment - people not being able to get to work/school/hospital appointments tends
to concentrate peoples minds. We'll (CWU) be well behind the curve and be branded in the main stream right leaning media
as 70's dinosaurs in a dying industry that needs modernising.

If we're not delivering their mail then they won't even realise they've got hospital appointments to attend! Although a strike could be a crafty move by Simon to make even more organisations turn to email etc and then never return to sending letters once any dispute is over.

[exetererica]

.

[Cedar_Room]

The lovely Conservative party have made it very,very tricky to organise & execute a successful strike ballot. Basically there is a strict protocol the CWU have to follow.

Unfortunately,it is not a case of just saying - we don’t agree with you & firing out the papers.

The Tories do not want the working class to have a voice!!

Our union royally f*cked up our last 3 ballots.

It's actually easy to play by the rules.

Nobody else can be blamed

They cocked up the last one,I’ll give you that. The previous two though? What happened?

I genuinely cannot remember

[robking]

The lovely Conservative party have made it very,very tricky to organise & execute a successful strike ballot. Basically there is a strict protocol the CWU have to follow.

Unfortunately,it is not a case of just saying - we don’t agree with you & firing out the papers.

The Tories do not want the working class to have a voice!!

Our union royally f*cked up our last 3 ballots.

It's actually easy to play by the rules.

Nobody else can be blamed

They cocked up the last one,I’ll give you that. The previous two though? What happened?

I genuinely cannot remember

From what I recall of the last three ballots, after the first of these, 2017 I think, there was a majority for industrial action but the union announced dates for one day strikes before a compulsory arbitration period, so a judge decided that action had to be paused, in the meantime there was a change of management and a deal was done.
Two years later in the autumn of 2019 there was another ballot but the union buggered it up by allowing people to fill in their voting forms at work and take pictures of themselves doing it. It's meant to be a secret ballot so that went to court and the ballot was ordered to be re-run properly, by that time Christmas had gone and the appetite for strikes was lost.
When a new ballot was finally held the majority in favour of industrial action was reduced and by then the pandemic was taking hold and it all went by the by.