Managers to receive £1000 for strike busting

[Acca Dacca]

It doesnt specifically say they cannot refuse to deliver mail and/or packets

Surely it must do or have they messed that up as well

Nope, just says attendance

[TheTrolleyMan]

£1000 each !!!! Weird though as the company’s losing 1 million pounds a day !

[postieblueshirt]

£1000 each !!!! Weird though as the company’s losing 1 million pounds a day !

Ah f@ck it!!! What's another few thousand here n there nobody will notice....

[CharlesG]

Great PR for trying to hold off biggest strike Royal Mail has seen in over a decade.
Timing is very interesting here, as 31st October is dates they want all emergency table top revisions completed by.
COM at our DO has failed with everything, but will get a bonus payment. This is rewarding failure and is actually unbelievable on so many levels.
Asking my COM to lend me £50 tomorrow

[world class male]

be funny if cwu-hq called off the strikes until they pay them all a grand then announce new dates

[Acca Dacca]

What stands out for me is Unite CMA saying 'from a company reportedly losing £1M a day'

This makes me think the rumour that the CMA/Unite union negotiators left the room ashen faced after seeing the financials is not true - you would imagine the wording would be different if that had been the case

[postieblueshirt]

What stands out for me is Unite CMA saying 'from a company reportedly losing £1M a day'

This makes me think the rumour that the CMA/Unite union negotiators left the room ashen faced after seeing the financials is not true - you would imagine the wording would be different if that had been the case

So are we ever going to find out why there strike didn't go ahead what's the big secret??

[TopperGas]

Thanks, just assumed all managers would be attending work on our strikes days anyway, so what a monumental waste of funds that could hae gone towards resolving our pay claim. Well in Si

Surely if they didn't attend then they wouldn't get paid and so lose more than £1,000 anyway over the 4 strike dates presently set? This seems some kind of costly publicity stunt by Simon, not sure what he's hoping to gain by losing the total trust of 100,000(?) non managerial staff?

[daveyeff]

it has to be said it looks like he is deliberately goading the union and its members. but why? surely he MUST know its a red flag to a bull. he's either lost the plot or has an underhanded plan. reps are on a national zoom call tomorrow at 6pm.

[daveyeff]

going to be a nasty one this i think.

[GRS]

Bizarre - surely they have to attend work anyway as they don't have a mandate to strike. If they didn't want to voluntarily cross the picket line then they could have been suspended anyway. Makes me wonder if there was some talk of them not crossing picket lines en masse and RM got wind of it. They couldn't suspend all managers so came up with this bonus to head off any action.

[Woody Guthrie]

it has to be said it looks like he is deliberately goading the union and its members. but why? surely he MUST know its a red flag to a bull. he's either lost the plot or has an underhanded plan. reps are on a national zoom call tomorrow at 6pm.

I genuinely think having studied his language and behaviour and his previous employment history that the guy suffers from narcissistic personality disorder.

It's not that uncommon in senior management, narcissists are usually high achievers due to a combination of hyper-competitiveness and a complete lack of empathy. They believe they are infallible.

[daveyeff]

Quite possible or even probable. Has he dealt with a unionised company before though? Or has he never dealt with unions?

[Mr Rush]

Makes me wonder if there was some talk of them not crossing picket lines en masse and RM got wind of it. They couldn't suspend all managers so came up with this bonus to head off any action.

It's possible that management, in the face of their quasi-union folding faster than Superman on laundry day, were thinking of taking unofficial industrial action. If true, that would be far more damning than the fact they voted to strike at all.

[norris9]

Stop starting early for this company and these managers!

Stop working for free through your breaks for this company and these managers!

Stop going over your time for this company and these managers!

They do not help you! Why are you helping them? They have left you with 2 days mail each week for the past year or so.

They rub their hands together and high five each other when you go out on your round after working through your break.

Make them cry as we all leave post in the frame.

Let them deal with all that excess mail.