RM posted £872m operating profit for 2021-22 period, at least the fat cats at the top didn’t get a bonus this year.
ballots sent out, but not received yet.
Great. Good luck to them.
My kitchen window is often open, especially during summer. Came down a few days ago and saw a package on the windowsill, inside the kitchen! Figured out the postie had opened it, plopped the package down, and shut it as much as he could.
This is the same guy who when I opened the door with my dog, shut the door for me after as my hands were full.
They have a tough, often unrewarding job. We don’t think about them, nor the Royal Mail, but try sending something in literally any other country on earth and it’s a nightmare. I’ve done it in the US, France, and the Netherlands and the process is no where near as smooth. They deserve their pay.
Good for them. Hope they get better wages after the past 2 years. Pay in this country is horribly low for so many folk who work so hard.
Having just spoken to my local postie they want to increase their hours from 37 hours to 40 with a 2% pay rise then another 1.5% after a year.
> “At the same time as the CEO and board have decided to impose a ~~2% pay increase~~ **7% Pay Cut** on workers, they’re getting bonuses in the region of £140,000. “By any level of fairness, this is completely unacceptable”
There. Fixed it. A 2% pay change when inflation is a pay cut of about 7%. So it is not a pay rise. It is a pay fall. Reporters used to fact check that sort of thing.
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So as more and more workers from different sectors go on strike, surely this makes it harder and harder for the government and the media to blame the workers. I’d rather not have horribly delayed post and fucked up travel arrangements but if this is what it takes for them to start listening to us all then I support it.
Oh no, how will I get my junk mail, bills and trade magazines I don’t read…
I think this was all inevitable. After the utter discontempt shown towards “Essential Workers” after the pandemic, it’s no wonder they’re all voting to strike. They carried this country on their backs and got nothing but spat on as a reward. More power to them I say.
It’s gonna be fun watching the government try to demonise postal workers. I don’t know anyone with a bad word to say about their Royal Mail postie. It’s the private couriers people struggle with.
How would you like to vote?
Yes
Yessss
Fuck yeah
All of the above
I hope they manage to get their ballot papers, if they go on strike, who will deliver them?
So we’ve had rail strikes, tube strikes, royal mail strikes, barrister strikes, possible teacher and NHS strikes… am I missing any?
I rarely watch GMB but I woke up an hour early this morning so had a green tea on the couch watching morning TV which is rare. Public support for strikes had risen 7% in the past week, the more that get involved the less it will seem greedy and more like what it is.
**Working full-time for more than poverty wages.**
Apparently they expect up to 80% of the ballot papers to arrive.
*But imagine how bad it would be under Labour*
The Tory faithful
Yep, get your pay rises, before the top people of Royal Mail gives them selves a pay rise, and then there’s not enough to give to the foot soldiers or Royal Mail.
Is there any users on here who either grew up or lived through the 1970’s?
Because if so, it must be a real treat for you getting to live through that whole decade again, what with the constant strikes happening all the time now, inflation being massive and all the economic hardships that entails, and just the general sense that everything kind of sucks. It must be a wonderfully nostalgic treat for you to relive that decade all over again.
Sadly, I was born two decades too late to enjoy the 70’s, but that won’t stop me from buying a pair of flares and partying it up with you!
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Hope they get it.
They have been essential over the past few years.
RM posted £872m operating profit for 2021-22 period, at least the fat cats at the top didn’t get a bonus this year.
ballots sent out, but not received yet.
Great. Good luck to them.
My kitchen window is often open, especially during summer. Came down a few days ago and saw a package on the windowsill, inside the kitchen! Figured out the postie had opened it, plopped the package down, and shut it as much as he could.
This is the same guy who when I opened the door with my dog, shut the door for me after as my hands were full.
They have a tough, often unrewarding job. We don’t think about them, nor the Royal Mail, but try sending something in literally any other country on earth and it’s a nightmare. I’ve done it in the US, France, and the Netherlands and the process is no where near as smooth. They deserve their pay.
Good for them. Hope they get better wages after the past 2 years. Pay in this country is horribly low for so many folk who work so hard.
Having just spoken to my local postie they want to increase their hours from 37 hours to 40 with a 2% pay rise then another 1.5% after a year.
> “At the same time as the CEO and board have decided to impose a ~~2% pay increase~~ **7% Pay Cut** on workers, they’re getting bonuses in the region of £140,000. “By any level of fairness, this is completely unacceptable”
There. Fixed it. A 2% pay change when inflation is a pay cut of about 7%. So it is not a pay rise. It is a pay fall. Reporters used to fact check that sort of thing.
[deleted]
So as more and more workers from different sectors go on strike, surely this makes it harder and harder for the government and the media to blame the workers. I’d rather not have horribly delayed post and fucked up travel arrangements but if this is what it takes for them to start listening to us all then I support it.
Oh no, how will I get my junk mail, bills and trade magazines I don’t read…
I think this was all inevitable. After the utter discontempt shown towards “Essential Workers” after the pandemic, it’s no wonder they’re all voting to strike. They carried this country on their backs and got nothing but spat on as a reward. More power to them I say.
It’s gonna be fun watching the government try to demonise postal workers. I don’t know anyone with a bad word to say about their Royal Mail postie. It’s the private couriers people struggle with.
How would you like to vote?
Yes
Yessss
Fuck yeah
All of the above
I hope they manage to get their ballot papers, if they go on strike, who will deliver them?
So we’ve had rail strikes, tube strikes, royal mail strikes, barrister strikes, possible teacher and NHS strikes… am I missing any?
I rarely watch GMB but I woke up an hour early this morning so had a green tea on the couch watching morning TV which is rare. Public support for strikes had risen 7% in the past week, the more that get involved the less it will seem greedy and more like what it is.
**Working full-time for more than poverty wages.**
Apparently they expect up to 80% of the ballot papers to arrive.
*But imagine how bad it would be under Labour*
The Tory faithful
Yep, get your pay rises, before the top people of Royal Mail gives them selves a pay rise, and then there’s not enough to give to the foot soldiers or Royal Mail.
Is there any users on here who either grew up or lived through the 1970’s?
Because if so, it must be a real treat for you getting to live through that whole decade again, what with the constant strikes happening all the time now, inflation being massive and all the economic hardships that entails, and just the general sense that everything kind of sucks. It must be a wonderfully nostalgic treat for you to relive that decade all over again.
Sadly, I was born two decades too late to enjoy the 70’s, but that won’t stop me from buying a pair of flares and partying it up with you!