Thompson wins

[Clairedarep]

Hate to say it but Thompson has achieved everything he set out to do, all changes implemented by EA, he has he union split in two, he appears to have backed them into a corner with the threats of stopping senior reps paid release and stopping subs coming direct out of our wages (both of which are magically now not happening) and before anyone defends this by saying it’s self preservation, the unions role is to protect and fight for its members rights not their personal interests. As hated as he may be, well played mr Thompson, mission accomplished

[postslippete]

That's exactly what it sounds like to me and the issue is royal mail can play that card over and over again.

They should be supporting us so that we are all in it together. Not preserving their status and privileges as reps, divisional, branch or otherwise

[77SAMPOST77]

Hate to say it but Thompson has achieved everything he set out to do, all changes implemented by EA, he has he union split in two, he appears to have backed them into a corner with the threats of stopping senior reps paid release and stopping subs coming direct out of our wages (both of which are magically now not happening) and before anyone defends this by saying it’s self preservation, the unions role is to protect and fight for its members rights not their personal interests. As hated as he may be, well played mr Thompson, mission accomplished

He will be remembered for destroying a well respected company and reducing it to a low paid workforce with no respect for management and no pride in there job anymore ,
A lot of good staff have left and more will be leaving soon ,

They will soon be employing only the useless and the desperate ,
any good people coming into the job will soon leave again once they see how badly staff are treated ,
Expect a very high turnover of staff which itself is costly and makes no business sense .

All in the pursuit of sheer greed for himself and fellow managers , they have no decency , no respect , no sense of fairness .

I would rather be a decent person than have all the money Thompson has .

[Clairedarep]

Hate to say it but Thompson has achieved everything he set out to do, all changes implemented by EA, he has he union split in two, he appears to have backed them into a corner with the threats of stopping senior reps paid release and stopping subs coming direct out of our wages (both of which are magically now not happening) and before anyone defends this by saying it’s self preservation, the unions role is to protect and fight for its members rights not their personal interests. As hated as he may be, well played mr Thompson, mission accomplished

He will be remembered for destroying a well respected company and reducing it to a low paid workforce with no respect for management and no pride in there job anymore ,
A lot of good staff have left and more will be leaving soon ,

They will soon be employing only the useless and the desperate ,
any good people coming into the job will soon leave again once they see how badly staff are treated ,
Expect a very high turnover of staff which itself is costly and makes no business sense .

All in the pursuit of sheer greed for himself and fellow managers , they have no decency , no respect , no sense of fairness .

I would rather be a decent person than have all the money Thompson has .

[chickenwittle]

This all sounds about right to me , this agreement stinks of self preservation.

[FilthyBloke]

Hate to say it but Thompson has achieved everything he set out to do, all changes implemented by EA, he has he union split in two, he appears to have backed them into a corner with the threats of stopping senior reps paid release and stopping subs coming direct out of our wages (both of which are magically now not happening) and before anyone defends this by saying it’s self preservation, the unions role is to protect and fight for its members rights not their personal interests. As hated as he may be, well played mr Thompson, mission accomplished

Yeah and no his job is done it wouldn’t surprise me if he leaves soon or steps down. Both parties will then pretend to build trust back up with a new CEO but nothing will change.

[Clairedarep]

He will be gone soon, I have it on good authority his contract ends in august, as I’ve already said, mission accomplished

[bigal383]

But u will all vote yes like numpties and that will be it

[Burghboy]

Hate to say it but Thompson has achieved everything he set out to do, all changes implemented by EA, he has he union split in two, he appears to have backed them into a corner with the threats of stopping senior reps paid release and stopping subs coming direct out of our wages (both of which are magically now not happening) and before anyone defends this by saying it’s self preservation, the unions role is to protect and fight for its members rights not their personal interests. As hated as he may be, well played mr Thompson, mission accomplished

Although I get your sentiment I don’t agree, Thompson and co set out to get rid of CWU from the workplace. They have not done that YET.

[twoloops]

Royal Mail will never win back good will, quietly quitting is the future & I now walk a lot slower.

[SMS1969]

But u will all vote yes like numpties and that will be it

And the consequences of voting no will be ….

[billie2]

Hate to say it but Thompson has achieved everything he set out to do, all changes implemented by EA, he has he union split in two, he appears to have backed them into a corner with the threats of stopping senior reps paid release and stopping subs coming direct out of our wages (both of which are magically now not happening) and before anyone defends this by saying it’s self preservation, the unions role is to protect and fight for its members rights not their personal interests. As hated as he may be, well played mr Thompson, mission accomplished

He will be remembered for destroying a well respected company and reducing it to a low paid workforce with no respect for management and no pride in there job anymore ,
A lot of good staff have left and more will be leaving soon ,

They will soon be employing only the useless and the desperate ,
any good people coming into the job will soon leave again once they see how badly staff are treated ,
Expect a very high turnover of staff which itself is costly and makes no business sense .

All in the pursuit of sheer greed for himself and fellow managers , they have no decency , no respect , no sense of fairness .

I would rather be a decent person than have all the money Thompson has .

Vote yes or no Royal Mail is now the same as other cheap companies like Aldi,Lidl, Evri, Amazon with a high turn over of staff and easly replaceable, where unmotivated or desperate staff work until they can't take it anymore leave and start again at the next job. Most people don't leave these jobs because of the money but the way they are treated you can only do hard manual labour at unsociable hours for so long. It's like we have gone back to victorian times.

[Splappy_McSplap]

They will soon be employing only the useless and the desperate ,
any good people coming into the job will soon leave again once they see how badly staff are treated ,
Expect a very high turnover of staff which itself is costly and makes no business sense .

All in the pursuit of sheer greed for himself and fellow managers , they have no decency , no respect , no sense of fairness .

I would rather be a decent person than have all the money Thompson has .

Hear hear.

I seriously won't be surprised, a few years from now, to find a Royal Mail Special Delivery sitting soaking wet on my doorstep when I get back from whatever job I am forced to go to.

[mightyowler]

People like Thompson have no conscience, he’s done what the major shareholder explained in the job description and will happily accept his golden handshake with glee.

Whatever becomes of this ballot, you need an overhaul of the senior representatives within CWU.

[cobrakai]

From what I know and have seen of Mr Thompson you give him far too much credit. It’s the unions mass incompetence and inability to capitalise and get us a reward on the pandemic profits combined with Royal Mails incompetence that’s brought this about.

A child could see the covid boom wasn’t going to last to forever.