'The Facts': Royal Mail's big lie to postal workers
Post bosses are pumping out propaganda in an effort to stop a pay revolt. But it's based on lies.
In its "The Facts" leaflet issued to all staff this week, it says, "It is misleading to compare the pay of postmen and postwomen with average national pay which is skewed by the wages of lawyers, surgeons, footballers and directors".
It goes on to quote a small selection of workers who seem to earn about the same as postal workers. The implication is clear – postal workers aren't badly off.
It's certainly true that fat cats like Royal Mail bosses Allan Leighton and Adam Crozier do raise the average. But this doesn't alter the fact that postal workers are still appallingly paid.
The government's official 2006 annual survey of hours and earnings for full time workers uses a median figure – the wage of the middle person in an income distribution with as many people paid more than them and as many paid less – to get a figure for average earnings.
This is not skewed by the high wages of a few. The median figure (in 2006 remember) was £447.10 a week. For postal workers the median basic pay now is £323.
Furthermore the same survey found that just 25 percent of full time workers in 2006 (men and women) were paid less than £316.30 a week. That almost exactly equates to £323 today.
So 75 percent of earners get more than postal workers. This is the reality of low pay – and management wants to make it worse.
"The Facts" goes on to say, "We are losing business because our costs are high – including our wages – which are 25 percent more than our competitors."
This is Royal Mail's real agenda – to cut pay by a quarter. It has to be met by a strike.
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Propaganda on it's way.
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POSTMAN
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I still aint seen this,anyone?
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Got mine today will scan and post if I can
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See my other post 'letter to staff',i think this one is leaflet or summin.TrueBlueTerrier wrote:Got mine today will scan and post if I can
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Your right and no did not get leaflet. Off to the pointless footy game now.
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