hows this for bull

[evilc]

Current news releases
Royal Mail

Statement - Update On Further Strike Action By The Communication Workers Union
26/07/2007


Royal Mail said today that payroll figures show that 80 per cent of our people are working as normal. Collections and deliveries are taking place as usual throughout the UK.

12 mail centres - the large sites where mail is processed before being sent to delivery offices - are working normally throughout today, including sites in Belfast, Southend, Liverpool, Carlisle, Peterborough, Glasgow, Hull, Aberdeen, Gloucester, Portsmouth, Crewe and Gatwick. Large numbers of colleagues have also reported to work at the remaining 59 centres and are working alongside management volunteers. No mail centres are expected to be closed.

The action this week is not on a national basis but involves strikes at different Royal Mail sites at different times.

A spokesman for Royal Mail said:" We are grateful to everyone who has chosen to work as normal and to get the mail to our customers as quickly as possible in spite of the Communication Workers Union call for industrial action."

The union’s publicly stated aim of causing maximum damage to Royal Mail, and therefore its customers, is completely at odds with its claim to support the postal service. Strike action will inevitably drive customers away from Royal Mail to rival operators and to the internet.

Royal Mail is already losing business because its costs and therefore its prices are too high and our business customers are choosing to go elsewhere. The facts remain the same:

[evilc]

12 mail centres - the large sites where mail is processed before being sent to delivery offices - are working normally throughout today, including sites in Belfast, Southend, Liverpool, Carlisle, Peterborough, Glasgow, Hull, Aberdeen, Gloucester, Portsmouth, Crewe and Gatwick. Large numbers of colleagues have also reported to work at the remaining 59 centres and are working alongside management volunteers. No mail centres are expected to be closed.

All these mail centres are not due to strike until fri, as for the remaining mc's they did not start i/a until the night shift, they must like making themselves look stupid.

[DGP1]

12 mail centres - the large sites where mail is processed before being sent to delivery offices - are working normally throughout today, including sites in Belfast, Southend, Liverpool, Carlisle, Peterborough, Glasgow, Hull, Aberdeen, Gloucester, Portsmouth, Crewe and Gatwick. Large numbers of colleagues have also reported to work at the remaining 59 centres and are working alongside management volunteers. No mail centres are expected to be closed.

RM work on the principle that if you tell a lie often enough then people will believe it to be true.

[Zorro]

Royal Mail said today that payroll figures show that 80 per cent of our people are working as normal.

I`m just glad that myself and our MC is in the 20% that didnt work during the strikes.

[stephen500]

Mail centres striking on different days are doing so because they have deliverys within their office, so they will strike on delivery strike days.

[stephen500]

As for Mail centres working, how do you define working?
Say an office has 5 workers working normally out of say 500 and then has some managers working....they would probally say that the office is working normally.

[ROCKY]

rm facts and figures might as well read enid blighton or the sun for all the reality involved

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Should not this bit

Large numbers of colleagues

be read as

numbers of Large colleagues (aka Managers)

[blackadder]

i hate being lied at

[frankie]

we have 30 staff in our office and out of that total, the same 3 strike breakers have crossed the picket line. Therefore I would say our office is not working normally. Boss asked my mate this morning, how many pickets would be on the gate tomorrow, she told him it was nothing to do with him .... sneaky, snidey tosser! How I despise managers.