Union meeting on the street

[IcanthelpthewayIam]

ffs get over it lets all work to rule

a work to rule is unofficial industrial action and if a union rep is advocating it, that means that RM can take that union to court over it, it could very possibly even get an injunction against the strike because of it

can i just ask how not doing overtime and not working your day off is deemed wrong?

its not wrong but a union rep asking to do it in an organised fashion like this would be considered industrial action, and unofficial at that, thats the problem

[Stella102]

why on earth aren't offices already working to rule? no wonder we are in such a bad state.

[daveyeff]

We had a Union meeting this morning out on the street the RM would not allow us to use the canteen or the building in that fact and it had to be done in our own time how petty of them? Anyway the long shot is that the rep asked members not to work their days off the week of the coming strike and don't do overtime. He was a bit annoyed that half the members would not come out to the meeting because they decided it was bagging up time. Can't win...

rep should be careful there, he basically just asked them to work to rule without holding a ballot, could be seen as unofficial industrial action by the cwu

Maybe, but that "the rep asked members not to work their days off the week of the coming strike" might have been because members had been asked by the DOM if they wanted to swap their scheduled day off for Monday the strike day. and that does happen.

why would they do that? that means they would have to pay you. unless its to make the strike look like its got less support

[IcanthelpthewayIam]

We had a Union meeting this morning out on the street the RM would not allow us to use the canteen or the building in that fact and it had to be done in our own time how petty of them? Anyway the long shot is that the rep asked members not to work their days off the week of the coming strike and don't do overtime. He was a bit annoyed that half the members would not come out to the meeting because they decided it was bagging up time. Can't win...

rep should be careful there, he basically just asked them to work to rule without holding a ballot, could be seen as unofficial industrial action by the cwu

Maybe, but that "the rep asked members not to work their days off the week of the coming strike" might have been because members had been asked by the DOM if they wanted to swap their scheduled day off for Monday the strike day. and that does happen.

why would they do that? that means they would have to pay you. unless its to make the strike look like its got less support

if postie was due to be off on the wednesday and also on strike on the monday he would have two absences that week, by shifting his day off to the strike day it means he only has 1 day away from work and DOM has an extra postie to help with work later in the week.