County posties defying strike

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 07 Oct 2007, 10:33

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/yorknew ... strike.php

POSTAL strikes may have York in their grip but postmen elsewhere in North Yorkshire have been defying the industrial action against Royal Mail.

York postal workers - who have been striking since noon on Thursday - were engaged in the nationwide industrial action until noon today.

But the news for Royal Mail customers has been cheerier in Kirkbymoorside, where postmen at the town's sorting office have been ignoring the strike.

Dave Bojas, 54, a postman in Kirkbymoorside, who has been delivering mail during the industrial action, said: "I am working as normal because I think Royal Mail's pay offer of 2.5 per cent is reasonable. It seems daft to me that the postmen on strike have chosen to lose Â£60 to Â£70 a day instead."

During the strikes there have been limited mail collections and deliveries in York, which is bracing itself for further strikes on Monday, when workers are set to walk out at 3am until 3am on Wednesday.

Communication Workers' Union chiefs today said only a resolution to the dispute between it and Royal Mail would halt the strike action, as talks between the two continued.

aul Clays, the York-based regional secretary of the union, said: "About 97-98 per cent of Royal Mail staff have been striking in York. I'm very pleased with how it's been going - happy that our members have decided that they can't accept the draconian measures that the business is trying to impose on us."

Mr Clays said that between ten and 30 workers have been picketing in York, the number of them depending on the time of day.

"Obviously it's absolutely devastating that the mail in York doesn't move," he added.

Graham Skelton, who runs a small farm that grows worms for composting and fishing, in Acklam, east of York, said that the postal strike had "ground the business to a complete halt".

"We are not able to supply any order placed on eBay and have had to offer refunds - we use Royal Mail for all our parcels but now because of the strike we have no income," he said.

But Royal Mail said that official payroll figures showed that the support for the strike among CWU members was weakening, with 50 per cent more people working than in previous national strike days.

The company said: "Attendance at sites across the country varied hugely with up to 90 per cent of our people working as nor-mal in some offices. We expect this level to rise over the next few days."

Stormproof · Post by **Stormproof** » 07 Oct 2007, 10:38

Dave Bojas, 54, a postman in Kirkbymoorside, who has been delivering mail during the industrial action, said: "I am working as normal because I think Royal Mail's pay offer of 2.5 per cent is reasonable. It seems daft to me that the postmen on strike have chosen to lose Â£60 to Â£70 a day instead."

He obviously did'nt read the proposals letter CWU sent out...................fecking idiot, he probably goes in at 3 and runs round like a headless chicken

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 07 Oct 2007, 10:41

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:The company said: "Attendance at sites across the country varied hugely with up to 90 per cent of our people working as nor-mal in some offices. We expect this level to rise over the next few days."

So 90% of 'his people' worked? Thank goodness I'm not one of his people, and neither are the rest of the 100% of us with minds of our own and who possess a backbone.

Post by **stephen500** » 07 Oct 2007, 10:53

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/yorknew ... strike.php
But Royal Mail said that official payroll figures showed that the support for the strike among CWU members was weakening, with 50 per cent more people working than in previous national strike days.
."

So if two workers crossed the line they now have three!

cylob66 · Post by **cylob66** » 07 Oct 2007, 11:01

So 90% of his people worked, according to their website there are only twelve postman so not really a land slide victory for Royal Mail, we have 250 and only 9 went in same as before not reporting that though are they.http://www.kirkbymoorside.com/Public%20 ... Office.htm

col456xyz · Post by **col456xyz** » 07 Oct 2007, 11:06

I work in stockton on tees , one of the largest del.. offices in the country.
we had 27 go in on fri & 25 on sat

axeman · Post by **axeman** » 07 Oct 2007, 11:41

it's called agresive accounting

astrobatz · Post by **astrobatz** » 07 Oct 2007, 11:56

Dave Bojas, 54, a postman in Kirkbymoorside, who has been delivering mail during the industrial action, said: "I am working as normal because I think Royal Mail's pay offer of 2.5 per cent is reasonable. It seems daft to me that the postmen on strike have chosen to lose Â£60 to Â£70 a day instead."

Absolute FOOL!
Bet he's the first to go crying to the CWU when his pension is gone.

maximus · Post by **maximus** » 07 Oct 2007, 12:06

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andy2007 · Post by **andy2007** » 07 Oct 2007, 18:37

I thought that "creative accounting" (or fiddling the figures) was illegal.

We had a manager a couple of years ago, who did something similar, to make it look like we had the most efficient RDC in the Country. When RM found out what he was up to, he was sacked and arrested.

Why hasn't that happened to :lfo and :cfo ?
Oh yes. It's because they think, that they are above the Law!

kopite74 · Post by **kopite74** » 07 Oct 2007, 18:49

col456xyz wrote:I work in stockton on tees , one of the largest del.. offices in the country.
we had 27 go in on fri & 25 on sat

its dickheads like them that will ruin our strike action, because that pleb leighton and his sidekick dozier will love actions like this

Wild Cat · Post by **Wild Cat** » 07 Oct 2007, 19:01

It appears to be the rural sub offices with only 10-20 workers that are ignoring the strike.

We have a sub office attached to our office which had full attendance nearly.

It is probably because they feel less intimidation from only a handful of workers and that no one will notice.

When they go to close these offices down I will not bat an eyelid as they deserve everything they get.

ROCKY · Post by **ROCKY** » 07 Oct 2007, 19:06

we have a couple of those type in our area and their attitude is we are small so we will work and get paid whilst you loose money and get us what we want i dont like to swear on this site but i hope the backstabbing f***ers get a long slow and painfull death

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 07 Oct 2007, 19:09

Wild Cat wrote:It appears to be the rural sub offices with only 10-20 workers that are ignoring the strike.

We have a sub office attached to our office which had full attendance nearly.

It is probably because they feel less intimidation from only a handful of workers and that no one will notice.

When they go to close these offices down I will not bat an eyelid as they deserve everything they get.

These SPDOs and Satellite offices will be targets soon as AL and AC think Bigger is better like MCs. They will close small offices as they are more expensive to run per head than a large office of 200 +, after all those 2 are not really worried about efficiency and service just the almighty Â£

Post by **piranha** » 08 Oct 2007, 08:03

maximus wrote:Remember in official payroll figures they will count people on holiday,sick and restdays!
So that is why their figures will be up!

Good point, it was my day off last friday and a lot of others
would have had long w/ends and days off....more creative
figures from RM what a surprise

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