Look it may not be the best deal in the world it’s a job that pays the best wages best pension best holidays and the end of the day technology will always win
OMG you sound like you write for the courier. All of what you said is totally wrong, best wages? best pension? best holidays? Who are you comparing that with? I presume other posties around the world. If so then that is clearly not true.
Best wages? We have reasonable wages compared to many who are in the gutter & overtime rates are very poor. Best pension? The pension is in limbo with a questionable future. Best holidays? After twenty years in service we work our way up to 30 days a year. Now they give it to us in hours it can potentially be less than 30 days. Also we are lucky to get the time off in the year we would like to have. There are so many problems with this job but for some reason I still enjoy it. I would never ever recommend it as a job opportunity to anyone else though.
Regarding dispute negotiations we have always been kept in the dark. Posties have always bent over and accepted the bribe........ I mean pay increase. We have always been shafted with changes that never work and always make the job harder to complete & less enjoyable. The RM and the CWU are two sides of the same scratched & corroded copper coin.
The views I express here are mine alone and do not represent the views of Royal Mail Group.
It's in the Guardian, so as with the Mail, Express etc, a large pinch of salt required.
It's nothing to do with The Guardian , it's a report by The Resolution Foundation and has appeared in all the financials over the last few days but you knew that didn't you.
The veracity of the original report you can question but since The Guardian is basically just pasting it onto their site you've kind of missed your target again.
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It's nothing to do with The Guardian , it's a report by The Resolution Foundation and has appeared in all the financials over the last few days but you knew that didn't you.
I never suggested the Guardian compiled the report, but like any paper they pick and choose what to print according to their intended readership. Merely because it's been reprinted in the Guardian doesn't give it added veracity, it merely means the editor liked the underlying theme of the report. But you knew that too, didn't you?
he veracity of the original report you can question but since The Guardian is basically just pasting it onto their site you've kind of missed your target again.
I'm starting to think you've got it bad with these continuous ad hominem attacks of yours.
I never suggested the Guardian compiled the report, but like any paper they pick and choose what to print according to their intended readership.
As I've already stated which you choose to ignore the report has been regurgitated in all the financials over the last couple of days so the question is what kind of news report would not have brought out the witty and scathing if rather pointless "large pinch of salt" response?
Wouldn't you rather have a far more interesting debate on the actual topic in hand, the fact that whether you believe this report or not inflation is obviously far higher than the union expected or expected us to believe it would be?
Even you must sometimes tire of your own acerbic little off topic witticisms.
To be fair Inflation was about 1% in April 2021. Clearly it has run away since.
It's a shame the 1% pay rise needs to last us until next April though.
To be honest anyone with half a brain knew that once lockdown started easing prices would start skyrocketing.
It was a poorer deal than it even looked at the time and unfortunately because it's expected to be a short term spike by the time we get round to negotiating next year's deal it will have dropped significantly but the damage will have been done.
To be fair Inflation was about 1% in April 2021. Clearly it has run away since.
It's a shame the 1% pay rise needs to last us until next April though.
To be honest anyone with half a brain knew that once lockdown started easing prices would start skyrocketing.
It was a poorer deal than it even looked at the time and unfortunately because it's expected to be a short term spike by the time we get round to negotiating next year's deal it will have dropped significantly but the damage will have been done.
I agree, the business however will argue they are giving us the shorter week though which is a rate increase in itself. They won’t mention you will have to fit the same workload into less hours and the tactics managers will use to achieve this. I don’t agree that inflation will be a short term spike, there is a price to pay for all the money central banks have made magical appear. Part of the price is inflation.
Next years negotiation will be interesting but I guess Terry and co will have fallen out again by then and we will be back to being fed lines about how we are losing money.
To be fair Inflation was about 1% in April 2021. Clearly it has run away since.
It's a shame the 1% pay rise needs to last us until next April though.
To be honest anyone with half a brain knew that once lockdown started easing prices would start skyrocketing.
It was a poorer deal than it even looked at the time and unfortunately because it's expected to be a short term spike by the time we get round to negotiating next year's deal it will have dropped significantly but the damage will have been done.
I agree, the business however will argue they are giving us the shorter week though which is a rate increase in itself. They won’t mention you will have to fit the same workload into less hours and the tactics managers will use to achieve this. I don’t agree that inflation will be a short term spike, there is a price to pay for all the money central banks have made magical appear. Part of the price is inflation.
Next years negotiation will be interesting but I guess Terry and co will have fallen out again by then and we will be back to being fed lines about how we are losing money.
I like your optimism about next years pay deal being negotiated next year. More like late 2023 with the shoddy way this union does things.
