It's a YES!

[LouBarlow]

...according to the Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/0 ... royal-mail" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Looks like we will all be out by the end of the month then.

[krussel]

Only expected at the moment ! Come on, come on

[tailfly12]

Happy Days are hear again. Crozier OUT.

[RobertT]

Nothing's confirmed yet!

[LouBarlow]

The Guardian are never wrong......ahem.

[london sub]

Its just speculation, but its the media just wanting something to write about, but i think (hope) it will be a yes!

[stokes11eg]

Should be pleased--but still feel our illustrious union leaders will somehow deflect from this course of action.

[DGP1]

Should be pleased--but still feel our illustrious union leaders will somehow deflect from this course of action.

They'd better not

[krussel]

Should be pleased--but still feel our illustrious union leaders will somehow deflect from this course of action.

They'd better not

Argh gross i am just about to sit down and eat my dinner

[kwikpost]

Should be pleased--but still feel our illustrious union leaders will somehow deflect from this course of action.

if they do then it's the end of the gravy train for them. there's already a lot of anger at our union in london.

[chunk]

If and when we go out,
at no point will i be whooping it up.
I am committed to strike action but view it like a trip to the dentist ( possibly painful but necessary)!
I understand though that a lot of us are impatient for change.

[Lounge Lizard]

"The Communication Workers Union is expected to announce on Thursday that 120,000 of its members at the Royal Mail will back a national strike following months of regional stoppages."
120,000 of its members - so that's 120,000 out of how many of its members at Royal Mail ?
And "expected to announce" - that, without any further explanation, is about as newsworthy as 'the tories are Expected to win the next general election.
And I always thought the Guardian was a quality paper.

[jcjd]

Looks like we will all be out by the end of the month then.

about time the calvery arrived , i was out last week and the week before and the week before that ect... oh and were out again on saturday and again next wednesday if the CWU don't anounce strike dates next week, and we'll keep on striking while theirs still one of us left standing in london WE WLL WIN

[prowler]

No doubt it will be a YES. I'm more interested in how many will not bother to vote, and so will Royal Mail. They will take that as a NO. I'd like to see a 70% return and an 80% YES vote to rubber stamp it. And how long is this government going to take a back seat? Could be difficult times ahead.

[Carnoustie]

"The Communication Workers Union is expected to announce on Thursday that 120,000 of its members at the Royal Mail will back a national strike following months of regional stoppages."
120,000 of its members - so that's 120,000 out of how many of its members at Royal Mail ?
And "expected to announce" - that, without any further explanation, is about as newsworthy as 'the tories are Expected to win the next general election.
And I always thought the Guardian was a quality paper.

Bloody journalists. No hard facts, just (bone) idle speculation. Why don't they just report the facts, when the ballot result comes out in a couple of days time

That 120,000 figure is probably lifted from an outdated TOTAL EMPLOYEES figure from one of their own newspaper's articles from several years ago.

Even when we have achieved an overwhelming Yes vote in the past, there's usually about 40% of members that don't even bother to vote So, even in an 'overwhelming' vote in favour of a strike, the total number of Yes votes would never come to anything like the 120,000 figure they've plucked out of thin air to scare their readers.

Well-researched journalism ? Nah, guesswork that you or me could easily base an article on. For example, the sentence
The union will have to give seven days' notice of any national strikes, raising the threat of action before the end of the month

WOW! I never would have worked out in a million years that 8th October + 7 days = strikes sometime after the middle of the month. No wonder these guys are so highly paid