I have taken the view all along that Royal Mail have set out their most extreme ultimate aims and expected to have these watered down to get a lot of their real aims through.
But our union by a combination of being out flanked and its own incomptence appears to be handing most of the extreme measures to Royal Mail on a plate.
1st) We say to RM have a period of calm and we will talk to you.
So RM uses the time to prepare for the next action and our people think that a deal is on the way.
2nd) We set a strike for four days in order to get RM back to the position it was at during the last strikes. That postiton and hard work is undermined by legal incompetance that fails to ensure that we serve notice propally.
3rd) The Pec are not on hand to talk over the weekend and therefore talks will probally go on into tuesday.
This means that one, the membership are disorientated and spilts may begin to occur in the ranks.
It also means that if the pec turn down the agreement then those who are due to go out on Thursday are unsure of their postion.
Also the cwu has to give another 7 days notice and that takes us into next week, allowing RM to clear some of the backlog and instead of a significant backlog building up it actually reduces.
This really smacks of incompetence!
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Patience is being tried!
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Whilst I would urge colleagues to hold their nerve, I have to say that the sooner we can purge the top deck of our union of New Labour loyalists like
Billy Hayes, the better it'll be for all of us.
We must also, confront and destroy the anti-union legislation, shamefully allowed to fester on the statute books by a so-called Labour government, a
government that has no qualms whatsoever in betraying those very people it was founded to protect. This totally irrational fear of so-called "Wildcat"
action is, quite frankly, ridiculous. Without a shadow of a doubt, the "unofficial" action taken by our gallant colleagues in South West/South East London,
East London, Liverpool, Glasgow, and elsewhere, helped to ensure that the idiot, Crozier's, mind was concentrated on the negotiations, and not on
outdated managerial grandstanding as has previously been the case.
With "Wildcat" action, management enter into the realm of the unknown, unlike "Official" action, there seems to be no end in sight to "Wildcat" strikes, and
is very hard for management to predict, much less prevent.
A strike, is a strike, is a strike. If the workforce feel they've little alternative except to withdraw their labour, then so be it, that they should be shackled
by antiquated , reactionary, repressive laws, introduced on to the statute book by a harridan whose loathing of the working class could scarce be disguised,
is surely well past it's sell-by date.
DEFY THESE LAWS, DEFY THESE PARASITES WHO HIDE BEHIND THEM, STAND SHOULDER TO SHOULDER IN SOLIDARITY WITH OUR COLLEAGUES.
Billy Hayes, the better it'll be for all of us.
We must also, confront and destroy the anti-union legislation, shamefully allowed to fester on the statute books by a so-called Labour government, a
government that has no qualms whatsoever in betraying those very people it was founded to protect. This totally irrational fear of so-called "Wildcat"
action is, quite frankly, ridiculous. Without a shadow of a doubt, the "unofficial" action taken by our gallant colleagues in South West/South East London,
East London, Liverpool, Glasgow, and elsewhere, helped to ensure that the idiot, Crozier's, mind was concentrated on the negotiations, and not on
outdated managerial grandstanding as has previously been the case.
With "Wildcat" action, management enter into the realm of the unknown, unlike "Official" action, there seems to be no end in sight to "Wildcat" strikes, and
is very hard for management to predict, much less prevent.
A strike, is a strike, is a strike. If the workforce feel they've little alternative except to withdraw their labour, then so be it, that they should be shackled
by antiquated , reactionary, repressive laws, introduced on to the statute book by a harridan whose loathing of the working class could scarce be disguised,
is surely well past it's sell-by date.
DEFY THESE LAWS, DEFY THESE PARASITES WHO HIDE BEHIND THEM, STAND SHOULDER TO SHOULDER IN SOLIDARITY WITH OUR COLLEAGUES.