Our national postal service - the last of the dinosaurs

[Ernie Shoe]

"right now RM has a pool of good reliable delivery staff that are more then willing to do a day's work for a day's pay. if you don't fight it's going to be flooded with people being paid minimum wage taking out the work while the few left stay in and sort nothing but walk's. you can bet doller's to dounut's once that happen's work will start turning up dumped all over the place."

You're bang on there I think mate!!

The public need to know that is also what we're fighting against!

[DGP1]

Our national postal service - the last of the dinosaurs

Dinosaurs where on this planet for 160million years and only died off because of massive changes in the enviroment (maybe helped along with an asteriod impact) whilst humans have only been around for 200,000 years (at most) so who was the more successful and TBH rightwing nut jobs have been infecting the gene pool for only a couple of thousand years so they have no right to abuse dinosaurs.



PS. I'm using normal scientific theories and not Duane Gishs' wild ideas about the age of the planet and intelligent design.

[green lantern]

I haven't seen "job & finish" since leaving Mount Pleasant 10 years ago. Maybe it still goes on in old offices but not in any of the new offices I have worked ever since. Staying till after your finish time is also unimaginable in my experience. We clock out five minutes early and nobody, that is NOBODY is asked to stay after their finish time, not even beyond five minutes before finish time. People who are talking about "job & finish" are as full of s**t as the ones who are talking about staying 20, 30 minutes after their duty time. Unimaginable in my experience. We had a good job but everything is spoiled by prima donnas who moan about everything and don't care about the job. It was nice seeing a former union bully taken out of his cushy job in RVP the other day to tray up pre-sorted flats. This is the shape of the things to come. People sitting in their nice 'signed duties' doing fook all 'waiting for work' getting paid same or even more (specially former PHGs like me) while other people sweating their nuts in different work areas getting paid less (usually juniors stuck in s**t duties). Where is the decency in all this. Some work areas are absolutely back-breaking while others have comfy chairs and flat screen tft monitors! People from the comfy areas should help the bods in shitty jobs. I feel disgusted by even looking at this state of affairs. We should help each other. This is called flexibility. The argument in defense of this heartlessness goes on like this" We were once juniors and did shitty duties, now it is their turn. Let them get on with it." When will this vicious circle of selfishness end? We come to work, help each other, get the job done showing mutual co-operation and respect. That is not going to happen. We are senior, we are 'ard, we play by the rules and agreements. Let everybody else rot in hell. To hell with the job and our junior colleagues. Where is compassion and decency in that? I am not a junior but I feel disgusted. I have been in all those cushy jobs that the so-called seniors are doing now. To be honest at that time I did not think about the unfortunate sods tipping packets or pushing yorks all night. All of a sudden I left it all and came 'on the floor' to work with new people. Even they don't like helping others. This is in the culture of this organisation. I trayed up sorted flats all night last night. I would have refused outright 4 or 5 years ago. We must remember, we work for an organisation which needs everybody's joined and concerted effort to be propelled forward. Division and petty selfishness would never help an organisation go forward. Work as a team, safeguard your hard-won rights, don't abuse them because if wee keep on abusing our rights, we would loose them sooner than later.

[green lantern]

'Please read the letter that he wrote' to misquote Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's song on Raising Sand, I'm talking about Radio, that posting has more truth in it than a stack of Bibles! (other books with true stuff in them are available)

[BELIAL]

Oh be fair ,I thought he made one or two good points

[green lantern]

Oh be fair ,I thought he made one or two good points

[norbert]

'Please read the letter that he wrote' to quote Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's song on Raising Sand, I'm talking about Radio, that posting has more truth in it than a stack of Bibles!

that is a very telling & factual account of many MC / APC's from what I've seen in Distribution - many of them were very badly run for years , long before :lfo & :cfo - that's not to say I condone how RM is run in any way or suggest that RM have the " solutions " .

They have been very fractionalized , greedy and soulless places often thriving on their own corruption . Why do you think the CWU narrowly lost the vote in 2003 ? , RM were absolutely spoiling for a fight i.e. people like McCarthy saying " we don't intend to de-recognize the union " . London & Glasgow saved the union back then - Deja Vue ?

As a AG I voted YES for IA in 2003 as it was imperative that you stood up to :lfo - the problem was that you could be on the picket line with processing staff that hated your guts as they thought they should have all the docket stitched up between them , they wanted the hours but not the work and /or thought that they were entitled to a cushy number .