OuchBroxi51 wrote:TrueBlueTerrier wrote: Just my own opinion but slagging of the Union without explanation is like having a chat about football in the Pub and some drunk shouting "Rooney's a Thug" - He may be right but what does it have to do with Yoevil against Huddersfield this weekend.
What does Yeovil against Huddersfield to do with football either
Well just as long as it won't cause too much disruption in your office, I expect they will decide to roll it out nationally.DaveF14 wrote:Monday to Friday should happen.
Job losses?
We have a smallish office of 4 rotations. Going to a Monday to Friday would been obviously losing the 4 day off floaters. 2 close to retirement. 1 wanting a buy down. Fairly high turnover of staff. The 4 wouldn't be out of work long. Or reduced hours until an opening comes up.
madmartin wrote:but royal mail dont want a 5 day week mail operation and the union have said they dont either,they said the members dont want it. Just shows you what the union actually knows about what its members want. They say having a 5 day operation will cause job losses but we're having job losses now and it will only get worse.
Where did the figure 16,000 job loses come from? seems alarmist to meclashcityrocker wrote:Mon - Fri will lead to about 16 000 job losses.
The loss of those subs would probably be enough to finish off the CWU as an independant trade union as well.
For all of you who think your DO would be better without a rep.....be careful what you wish for.
But maybe thats because iam forced to work EVERY saturday? Job loses and redundencies are inevitable when we are privatised so why not drop a day that most people would rather not work instead of just adding delivery points and d2ds till the posties all die of exhaustion?! Complete non-deliveries on saturdays are obviously out of the question but what about a premium service? That way some satudays would be available to the OT freaks and people without anything better to do and the new owners of Royal mail can line their pockets without stealing it from us! The customers probably wouldnt even notice i still get remarks about the 2nd delivery of the day and how long ago was that scrapped?!Again seems alarmist, that saturday mail still has to be sorted and posted plus all the d2ds so although iam sure there would be staff reductions it wouldnt be that high!it would give them the opertunity to reduce staff to 1 in 6
It's not about being alarmist. Logically, working just 5 days would eradicate the need for rota men. Nobody would have a day off. Hence, 1 in 6 of the present staff - i.e. the guys who work a rota duty (and I know for a fact that this is around about 1 in 6 of the staff in our office, including drivers) - would be deemed surplus to requirements. Obviously, it cannot be generalised in such a way, and we don't know over who the guillotine would fall. But a 16.66% reduction in the work MAY logically lead to a 16.66% reduction in staff.George door to dawes wrote:Where did the figure 16,000 job loses come from? seems alarmist to meclashcityrocker wrote:Mon - Fri will lead to about 16 000 job losses.
The loss of those subs would probably be enough to finish off the CWU as an independant trade union as well.
For all of you who think your DO would be better without a rep.....be careful what you wish for.
Personally it think monday-friday wouldnt be so bad!
Again seems alarmist, that saturday mail still has to be sorted and posted plus all the d2ds so although iam sure there would be staff reductions it wouldnt be that high!it would give them the opertunity to reduce staff to 1 in 6
Fully agree with Clash.clashcityrocker wrote:If I was a moderator...........
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Come on Mods stop these threadsgb93 wrote:Fully agree with Clash.clashcityrocker wrote:If I was a moderator...........
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Can these moronic threads be killed at birth.
Postman Ah well not much chance I take it 