Comments on: RM strike dates announced

By: Typical Citizen

Typical Citizen — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:11:34 +0000

I didn’t so much mind the postal workers striking when Royal Mail was publicly owned. Costs were kept to a minimum.. being a postie was a respectable profession.

I think that now costs have more than doubled and fat executives are creaming huge salaries and expense bills from the profits, it rankles somewhat to see a privately owned monopoly not brought to account by the government for not heading off this strike.

And I don’t care how much of a union man you are, you don’t give up a weeks pay unless you’re extremely unhappy with the current situation.

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By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:55:13 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see how many workers actually do strike. Anyone with half a brain cell can see the union is on a suicide mission that will do nothing but destroy both RM and their workers jobs.

I wonder if the union bosses will give up four days pay to show solidarity with their workers? some how I think not.

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 22:21:34 +0000

Oh deep joy!
My aim over the next few months will be to erradicate light items that have to be sent by Royal Mail and switch even more to courier based deliveries. It’s beyond a joke, in fact the only joke is the union bosses who are living in cloud cuckoo land!

By: Gill

Gill — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:57:38 +0000

What a nightmare