http://www.strongerunions.org/2010/11/0 ... ives-atos/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I agree , you will get professional compo claimers , and old soldiers working their ticket ; everyone knows who they are but they are in the minority , and to insinuate on very vague grounds that everyone is at it is offensive - it's a place of work - not prison or the army - though you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise with RM's poor culture !; with another union , a rep called " Seagull Dawson " for obvious reasons used to find holes and fall in them , £500 ( a lot of money then
) & six weeks off , jobs a good 'un . There was people who'd accidents " at work " when everyone knew they'd had them earlier when they were drunk . There was also staff that got assaulted or their workplaces robbed a bit too often , playing the system for compo too .
RM has them too , people having falls , the tailgate / ramps not lifted up properly on wagons and let's say , some people were not exactly too upset . I've seen people do the old banger shunt and " whiplash injuries " motoring accidents " routine , or conveniently get knocked off their bikes - however RM has the highest rate for musco - skeletal injuries in the country .
Simpson and Miller were getting £4 Million in compo money for the union - whether RM liked it or not ...The CWU were doing their job , RM were threatened with investigation by the Health & Safety Executive , so the goalposts got moved , accidents became " incidents " , a senior insurance claims assessor said he'd never heard such absolute b***ocks in his life ; everything was the posties " fault " , if he / she got bitten by Fido ...it was because he / she didn't have a HV vest on
; if someone claimed for certified back injuries , managers would close ranks with incredible memory recall and swear blind that the postie lifted the bag up wrong to teach the postie a lesson to not make trouble for RM . The managers giving lectures on being more careful usually had very colourful sick records themselves ...with some amazing " coincidences " too i.e. " flu " when moving house ....p*** poor management , poor motivational / leadership and people skills ...there has to be good will ...if you don't have that ...you'll naturally get the screw 'em for every penny minority . To add " credibility " RM now use the cowboy quacks ATOS Origin to fire their bullets . Many of their doctors have been struck off / had drink problems / been " retired " / have poor english / badly trained or untrained anyway .
It depends if you tolerate necessary evils or not ...that's human nature ....if you go holier / purer than thou and assume the moral high ground ...you should expect to be contradicted / challenged . As for " morality " the obscene bonuses for RM's Exec / Senior Management giving the orders to don't give ATOS and the " little bonus fiddles " for their subordinates need to be looked into .
Some very interesting reading about ATOS in the Sunday Mail today-----
