If royal mail was privatised...

[Howard]

what would that mean to the average joe like me ?
Men/Women with 15yrs+ service,what would it mean to us...... sorry if that appears a silly question but I dont have a clue.

[studmuffin]

You would be wearing a different uniform, possibly tnt, for less money than you earn now

[wolfie citizen smith]

Royal Mail would not be privatised it will be sold, shreaded and thrown into the abyss, All the work that the Royal Mail used to do will be done by TNT (bulk mail collections, sorting and deliveries) UK Mail (bulk mail collections and sorting) TNT, UK Mails, City Link and DPD (small mailling packet collections and deliveries)

[Destroyer]

Rupert Murdoch would be your boss too.

Non Union Company.

[Howard]

Sounds aright hey










GL Men

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Complete loss of seniority based privileges - including extra holidays.

Less chance of a shorter working week.

Less chance of Pay Rises.

No Union representation without a long drawn out dispute.

Owner walker rounds remain a possibility albeit fairly small one at the moment.

[NWpostie]

The jobs are likely to be part time, so when the jobs situation gets better I can see good people leaving and students, immigrants and others in between jobs taking on the work with the same sort of commitment levels and concern, i.e. crap with little motivation, you pay peanuts = you get monkeys.

simples

[fishtank]

Complete loss of seniority based privileges - including extra holidays.

Less chance of a shorter working week.

Less chance of Pay Rises.

No Union representation without a long drawn out dispute.

Owner walker rounds remain a possibility albeit fairly small one at the moment.

And 70% os us will have to move to onthedolechat.com

[cyclemech1]

Rupert Murdoch would be your boss too.

Non Union Company.

Guess who is on the board of Murdochs companies??

One Allan Leighton Esquire! :lfo

Google him and you'll see.

You couldn't make it up, could you.

[smokerjim]

I haven't done more than quickly look though some relevent sections, but as far as I can work out we would be covered under TUPE regs ( 1981 & 2006 ) or equivalent public sector protections. The one dodgy area might be the pension scheme, but everything paid in up to the Transfer of Undertakings would have to be honoured.

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As for a privatisation, the big three parties all want to cash us in, but I believe the Lib Dems have said that they would like to use the John Lewis model ( where employeees automatically become shareholders are actively involved in the running of the company, and they all share in the profits ( between 9 - 20% of annual wage ) - the rest is ploughed back into the business ). Having said that, I can't see any Government letting RM transfer to a trust, not with the amount of snouts crowding the trough ( Mandelson, Brown, Darling, Crozier, Leighton, etc) and scores more hovering around it ( TNT, DHL, UK Mail, etc )

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Complete loss of seniority based privileges - including extra holidays.

Less chance of a shorter working week.

Less chance of Pay Rises.

No Union representation without a long drawn out dispute.

Owner walker rounds remain a possibility albeit fairly small one at the moment.

And 70% os us will have to move to onthedolechat.com

Its ok we will change the title to formerroyalmailchat.co.uk - but it will be subsciption only because me and Postman will probably be at the head of the queue when they hand out the P45.

[DGP1]

Complete loss of seniority based privileges - including extra holidays.

Less chance of a shorter working week.

Less chance of Pay Rises.

No Union representation without a long drawn out dispute.

Owner walker rounds remain a possibility albeit fairly small one at the moment.

And 70% os us will have to move to onthedolechat.com

Its ok we will change the title to formerroyalmailchat.co.uk - but it will be subsciption only because me and Postman will probably be at the head of the queue when they hand out the P45.

I certainly hope that I'll be up there with you