Working your day off during the strike period

takeyourbreak · Post by **takeyourbreak** » 10 Oct 2007, 17:13

How many people on here have been working their day off during this strike period? I was hoping the union was going to encourage folk not to do it during this time. Ok I have been told that you are Â£8 better off if you do it. So what!! Its defeating the purpose of the strike. We are helping them out when really we should be leaving them to suffer. If every postie took their day off the offices would be in meltdown as it is us posties who bail them out all the time....

cheers....

Beforenineoclockgoodone · Post by **Beforenineoclockgoodone** » 10 Oct 2007, 17:16

Then again how many have gone over today even though they had to take mail just to their time, but mis calculated but delivered an extra 30 mins worth for nowt?

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 10 Oct 2007, 17:17

Its a difficult one though. First I'll state I do not work my days off but I can see 2 good reasons for people to do it.

1. Its harder for the waiverers to claim they cant afford to strike if they work their normal amount of hours.

2. Its more expensive for Royal Mail as I think they pay you OT for it.

If it keeps the waiverers from crossing the picket line on the actual days of the strike I dont have a problem withit, and I certainly dont have a problem if its more expensive for Royal Mail it helps to show how much goodwill they have thrown away.

takeyourbreak · Post by **takeyourbreak** » 10 Oct 2007, 17:20

good call trueblue see where you are coming from mate....

cheers...

pickaname · Post by **pickaname** » 10 Oct 2007, 17:24

Its called 'flexibility' (ahem)

How many other companies would have people volunteer to work their day off...if this stopped RM wouldnt cope and would crumble to bits.

Post by **Chrissie** » 10 Oct 2007, 17:29

Talking about working days off, I have heard a rumour that posties in the ladywood area of Birmingham worked on sunday delivering mail. Anyone else heard anything.

Beforenineoclockgoodone · Post by **Beforenineoclockgoodone** » 10 Oct 2007, 17:32

Royal Mail turn a blind eye to us doing our job properly, not by us doing it wrong by cutting corners, but if we actually did it the Royal Mail way, then nothing would ever get done, the only way it gets done now is because we all use a little common sense on our own deliveries to get the job done quicker & convenient for us. JOB & FINISH!

jackdaw · Post by **jackdaw** » 11 Oct 2007, 10:15

It was always my opinion that we should've started this dispute with a work to rule and an overtime ban. This would have shown Royal Mail just how much goodwill they get from us and would have proved that we needed more not less postmen. But we have dug our own graves and now need to strike as well but I honestly believe we have to WTR and ban overtime as well to force home our point.

Post by **mailjock** » 11 Oct 2007, 10:24

There are arguments both ways as to whether this should be done or not.

Personally I believe that the more support we have for the rolling programme the better as that is the way we are going to win this strike by slowly choking the network. Only when the network collapses will this management have meaningful negotiations.

We all took a hard hit with the first four days and quite honestly if people get the opportunity to make up a rolling days strike pay by working their day off then that's fine by me as we achieve our objective with no loss of pay and possibly only delay tthe inevitable network collapse by a week.

But people working extra o/t beyond taking them back to their basic hours to clear backlogs then I think that is stupidity and should never be acceptable.

padraig1965 · Post by **padraig1965** » 11 Oct 2007, 10:30

I have never worked it not going to start now as for overtime they can shove it.

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