SEWBC Rochester

tyfc · Post by **tyfc** » 11 Oct 2007, 20:21

We went out 16.30 on unofficial action after one of our drivers refused to go through the unofficial strike at east london, our management refused to pay him for the whole afternoon and were to suspend him if he refused to do it today. So last night we all walked out, over 100 on the gate all day today unfortunately a handful of staff got in but no lorrys went to customer collections (bulk mailers) and only a handfull of lorries which were driven by Maidstone And Tonbridge Managers got out after they called the police and had us removed from their path. Today they offered us new terms and conditions to return to work we told them to shove em, talks continue tomorrow.

doorstep it · Post by **doorstep it** » 11 Oct 2007, 20:25

Good luck to you all and stand strong with dignity.

DirtyHarry · Post by **DirtyHarry** » 11 Oct 2007, 20:39

Yes, I second that. Good luck to you and all your colleagues, tyfc.

Wild Rover · Post by **Wild Rover** » 11 Oct 2007, 20:47

I'm with you all the way in the unofficial action. I really am. Provocation is a s**t thing, which nobody should go through while at work.

However, why's it just now London and Liverpool out on unofficial IA? Why nobody else?

smokerjim · Post by **smokerjim** » 11 Oct 2007, 20:48

Sorry dumbass question, but WTF SEWBC?

Sounds like I might need to review my opinion on Rocchester RM staff

tyfc · Post by **tyfc** » 11 Oct 2007, 20:54

Hi we are the south east walk bundling centre we do all the door 2 door for the south east area including all london also we have a large Bulk mailing customer base throughout kent which we collect from. which we consolidate work for processing at Northern Home counties dc we have approx 80 driving duties and over 100 indoor duties hope this helps

Wild Cat · Post by **Wild Cat** » 11 Oct 2007, 20:57

Hopefully that will keep the door to doors at bay for a little longer.

I sure miss em

Post by **Carnoustie** » 11 Oct 2007, 21:50

Hi tyfc. Any drivers from NHCDC get sent there to pick up work ? And was their pay stopped for not crossing the picket line ?

smokerjim · Post by **smokerjim** » 11 Oct 2007, 22:46

tyfc wrote:Hi we are the south east walk bundling centre we do all the door 2 door for the south east area including all london also we have a large Bulk mailing customer base throughout kent which we collect from. which we consolidate work for processing at Northern Home counties dc we have approx 80 driving duties and over 100 indoor duties hope this helps

Cheers for that - I had noticed "Rochester" on the D2D labels, but had no idea where in Rochester....obviously you have nothing to do with the DO ( or the sc*bs that are there )....congrats to you all for standing up to the screws, but they don't like making it easy for themselves, do they?

BTW, any chance of dropping a match in the warehouse in a couple of weeks?

stamper · Post by **stamper** » 12 Oct 2007, 00:19

we are out in liverpool may the action snowball

Pokemon Postmon · Post by **Pokemon Postmon** » 12 Oct 2007, 04:30

doorstep it wrote:Good luck to you all and stand strong with dignity.

Ditto that!

tyfc · Post by **tyfc** » 12 Oct 2007, 06:28

We only had 1 Northern Home Counties artic turn up about 1500 but she listened to what we had to say turned around in our yard and went back to NHC, she needed to go to the toilet but the management wouldnt let her use the toilet inside so she had to go over to the sports centre opposite and she went in there. I believe she still got paid, I dont they want NHCDC to get involved in this u/i/a for the problems it would cause on the network.......

Our door2door operation has been stopped for 3 weeks normally we have a constant supply of artics coming in and going out all of our racking is empty this was done in readiness for the official strikes we are doing as the fines for undelivered d2d are very high so they kissed goodbye to Â£8 million pounds worth of work apparently.

We have nothing to do with Rochester DO thank god all our Rochester DO work goes to Maidstone DO they move it over to Rochester DO like someone said they are healing wounds

Our customer base gives us approx 800 Rsc a day we have 4 Artics go to PRDC (1ST class), the rest goes to NHC (2nd, 3rd) we have been segging the 3rd class for NHC all the time we had no d2d to send out, just to keep our staff here working,

:cfo :lfo

stubaby · Post by **stubaby** » 12 Oct 2007, 08:50

From what i heard 2 NHDC drivers were suspended yesterday and they were about to walk last night.
Not sure what has happened will try and find out

chewawa · Post by **chewawa** » 12 Oct 2007, 17:10

why............liverpool & london(sw1 to Sw20) only

robmacca · Post by **robmacca** » 12 Oct 2007, 17:18

tyfc wrote: Today they offered us new terms and conditions to return to work we told them to shove em, talks continue tomorrow.

What would they be changing?

Sounds like a sneaky plan by RM to bring in changes.

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