Breaking news: Postal strike could affect deliveries

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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12.40pm: Hundreds of postal workers at Peterborough's main sorting office in Werrington have walked out over a dispute with management.
Union representatives among the workers outside the Papyrus Road depot say the dispute could last several days and affect deliveries in many parts of Peterborough.

[DGP1]

Maybe they should bring in some managers to cover I forgot, they are all up in Scotland at the moment

[Phantom]

We've got two useless twats getting paid for nothing at my office, they can have them.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

3pm update:
Hundreds of postal workers at Peterborough's main sorting office in Werrington walked out at around 9am on Thursday morning over a dispute with management.

Union representatives among the workers outside the Papyrus Road depot say the dispute could last several days and affect deliveries in many parts of Peterborough - for postal codes PE1 to PE7.

Post going out of Peterborough is not believed to be affected.


3.45pm: Postal workers at Peterborough's main sorting office in Werrington have returned to work after walking out on strike this morning (Thursday).

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[BELIAL]

Good on our Peterborough brothers,line in the sand,no to putting up with management bully boy tactics.
This rebuilding of a working relationship based on mutual respect and understanding doesn't seem to be going too well

[k979aaa]

Good on our Peterborough brothers,line in the sand,no to putting up with management bully boy tactics.
This rebuilding of a working relationship based on mutual respect and understanding doesn't seem to be going too well

Seconded and good on you all for defending that line!.

[24601]

We've got two useless twats getting paid for nothing at my office, they can have them.

We've got 5 in our office !!!

[planx]

Good on you Peterborough.
Now, lets have some action over our damn pay freeze.

[baldrick]

Anyone from Peterborough on here who knows what it's about?
A senior manager from Mount Pleasant was recently transferred there.
He has a reputation for being 'provocative' (among other things).

[EDDIE 666]

Management are ignoring and not recognising the union all over the country!!! Its about time we all did something like this.Lets show royal mail how strong a union we are!!! good luck & stay strong

[Big Daz]

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[pinstripe]

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"Today, a Royal Mail spokesman said: "We are working hard to clear the disruption caused by the unlawful action yesterday.

"Royal Mail is now handling 10 per cent fewer letters than a year ago and there are almost 10 million fewer letters a day being handled than in 2006, so it is essential that Royal Mail continues its drive to modernise and increase efficiency.""

Unlawful...perhaps, illegal...perhaps, JUSTIFIED...ABSOLUTELY.
And if we are 'handling' 10 million items less everyday than 3 years ago, then a 1 day strike in 1 office isn't going to hurt RM is it? Or could they be lying?

[Big Daz]

Over the last five years we have absorbed almost 50 million OPG hours, I had a update from Royal Mail last week on the reduction in OPG hours. The reduction in OPG hours in 2008/2009 was 9,303,745 of which 71,933 came from the PE postcode area and in turn the peterborough mail centre (PMC) provided 37,786 hours.

18,665 OPG hours from PMC were absorbed during 2005/2006

46,780 OPG hours from PMC were absorbed during 2006/2007

125,121 OPG hours from PMC were absorbed during 2007/2008

Such a magnificent effort for such little reward!!!!

:cfo should be ashamed!!!!!

[wranglered]

Big Daz....might have been a bit more effective if the Branch Secretary had not told Processing to keep working...what is it coming to in Eastern Number 5???

[Big Daz]

The branch sec does his best and does what he thinks is right and come the end of the year nominations will be open again and if yourself or other mbr wants to do the branch sec job then they are free to put in for it.

How ever the branch sec is doing a good job at getting my release problems sorted.