MRM.COM : Your terms and conditions

[GRS]

I all you don' think it will be that severe. Long possibly like Southern Rail which has been going on for a year but that is usually for 1 or 2 days at a time and after the first few times seemed to lose it's impact.Anyone who thinks we are going to be out for months on end is going to be disappointed as there is no way people will sustain it in today's modern economic climate. Any sign of a long and constant strike and it will collapse immediately. When was the last time this country saw a strike that just went on and on every day for weeks let alone months. As others have said on various posts surely a complete overtime ban and doing the job properly is the way to go. Everyone will earn and RM will fail massively every day causing them a rather large headache as the service will grind to a halt.

[postslippete]

Have the company actually wondered why staff in this company go on sick??

You see its quite alright bringing in all sorts of top tier managers to try and change things around in Royal Mail, for example, introduce Indoor Work Plans, move managers around different offices, lapse deliveries etc etc BUT all it ever does is create more pressure for the posties. Delivery spans have increased massively since I started, and that might have been back in the good old days when we finished at breakfast time and there were few rival couriers; but now the opposite has happened, and the duties/workloads are such now that most of us are actually struggling to finish on time. The indoor work plans has led to a lot of management bullying as they try and get everyone in the section doing everything; and the outdoor work is sheer punishment on the body and feet. Just last week, a relatively new postwoman broke down and cried next to me, because she didn't know where she was going to be or who she was going to be with from one week to the next. Management couldn't give a s*it. Well, its what the business wants isn't it? was their reply. We ain't got no one to cover that duty and we are already taking some loops off other posties on their duties was the bossman's reply.

Did the company actually learn anything from the results of recent employee survey, you know the one which said that fewer employees now (was it 31%) feel involved in decision making? Have the company actually consulted any of us about what we think about the sick policy? No, they just keep banging on about how good their terms and cons are as compared to the 'gig' economy. That is not the way to go. Im sure I read somewhere recently that Royal Mail's annual profits jumped 25% due to a better than expected growth in parcels. However, is all the profit that we make due to parcels? I think not. The OVERALL figures may show a reduced volume in letters delivered by Royal Mail, but actually there are fewer posties and bigger outdoor deliveries. I kid you not, Royal Mail only ever trot out the mantra that 'letter volumes are falling' because what they are really after are fewer posties doing bigger outdoor deliveries. In other words, bigger and bigger profits for them. So as a shareholder we may benefit once we cash in, and then what? Will we be on bonuses like the managers?

I noticed that Royal Mail have mentioned strike action at least 3 times. Are the bigwigs at Royal Mail worried about strikes or something? And a breakdown in Industrial relations means that they can't afford to pay what exactly?? Everyone knows that if we strike, we don't get paid. And if we go back to work and Royal Mail suddenly state that they can't anybody sick pay for the first three days, which is not agreed, then we go on strike again!! Postmen and women are not militant people but Royal Mail are going about their business in entirely the wrong way. Instead of making the company a great place to work by improving our working conditions - they are almost threatening us that we need to change or face the consequences. And the consequences of a business that has just made a 25% jump in its annual profits? Commercial suicide??