>The union representing Royal Mail workers is set to renew calls for strike action, calling the company’s latest pay offer “unacceptable”.
>Royal Mail Group said it had put forward a deal, which included a pay rise worth 7% of a worker’s salary over two years, and a 2% lump sum this year.
>However, Royal Mail said the offer was subject to agreeing to changes with Sunday working and start times.
edit: it seems the offer does not apply to fleet workers or parcelforce workers.
So not even matching Inflation for this year spread across 2 years and a bonus worth around 500 quid based on posties average pay.
Yeah no wonder it got fucked off.
I give them a quick beep every time I drive past their picket line.
It’s the only power us working class have, before violence.
I found this surprising as I was under the impression that the Royal Mail have been on strike for the past 14 months.
Can see them losing loads of business which will ultimately impact the workers anyway. So many businesses will switch to other delivery providers and then stay with them, especially as loads now offer the convenience of lockers. With bills etc now being paperless I’d guess the amount of letters being delivered falls year on year also
Members keep complaining that their ballot papers aren’t getting delivered on time
Speaking to someone working for Parcelforce, he hasn’t participated in some of the strike days because he’s losing £127 each time he does it. He said it’s getting to the point where he feels like he can’t strike anymore because the pay raise will not cover the amount he’s lost from striking.
Not only that, but he’s said the strikes had made little to no difference the way it’s been done because parcel force have a vast amount of agency workers to fill the gap, making the strikes relatively pointless, there’s no lost revenue or incentive to increase the wages.
Although if he’s getting £127 a day, maybe I’m not in the right job, I’d take a £13k pay rise.
It’s an insulting offer, consisting of
– 2% they already imposed
– 3.5% from when the deal is agreed, so not even backdated
– 1.5% next year
– a lump sum that is less than a weeks wage
All when inflation is in double digits and predicted to stay there, so at minimum would be a 13% pay cut.
And in return they want the CWU and employees to agree to vast changes that make working conditions much worse.
Oh and to top it all off they’ve decided that all new recruits to the business will get recruited on significantly worse contracts as of the 31st October – less pay for more hours, including Sunday working for no extra pay.
You honestly couldn’t do more as a CEO to piss off an already militant and pissed off workforce.
financial warfare. They know you can’t afford to care, or to fight.
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They print, we rent.
They have hundreds of billions hoarded in bank accounts. Literal cancer of society, soaking up millions of hours of human labor and saving it for their own desires.
While I’d love a decent pay rise, it’s more about the massive changes to the way we work that I’m not happy with (different start times, Sunday working etc).
It’s a childcare issue for me and many of the other posties. Finish at 2pm, go pick up child etc. it’s simply not going to work if the job I’ve been in for 10years changes that drastically.
I understand the rail strikes in as much as these people’s jobs are not transferable so there’s an argument that they have spent their careers learning a very niche set of skills they would not be able to apply elsewhere and need unions to protect them. With Royal Mail, your skills are transferable (I think?) and so while I believe everyone should be paid fairly, if you are not happy with your pay and conditions do you not vote with your feet and leave? Like, I have a job that also has a transferable skill, when I’m unhappy I leave my job and get another job, up-skilling as necessary. What’s the difference here, as Royal Mail is a private company now isn’t it? Not trying to start an argument I’m genuinely curious I’ve been OOTL on this one.
All this is going off but everyone seems oblivious that Grant Shapps has given the go ahead to Czech Daniel Kretinsky’ for a possible takeover attempt of Royal Mail.
With heavy hints that they are minded to change the Royal Mail six day a week obligation into five. Which will definitely lead to job cuts….
I know it’s selfish but Royal Mail stole a package of mine this week and now I’m losing all sympathy for these strikes.
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>The union representing Royal Mail workers is set to renew calls for strike action, calling the company’s latest pay offer “unacceptable”.
>Royal Mail Group said it had put forward a deal, which included a pay rise worth 7% of a worker’s salary over two years, and a 2% lump sum this year.
>However, Royal Mail said the offer was subject to agreeing to changes with Sunday working and start times.
edit: it seems the offer does not apply to fleet workers or parcelforce workers.
So not even matching Inflation for this year spread across 2 years and a bonus worth around 500 quid based on posties average pay.
Yeah no wonder it got fucked off.
I give them a quick beep every time I drive past their picket line.
It’s the only power us working class have, before violence.
I found this surprising as I was under the impression that the Royal Mail have been on strike for the past 14 months.
Can see them losing loads of business which will ultimately impact the workers anyway. So many businesses will switch to other delivery providers and then stay with them, especially as loads now offer the convenience of lockers. With bills etc now being paperless I’d guess the amount of letters being delivered falls year on year also
Members keep complaining that their ballot papers aren’t getting delivered on time
Speaking to someone working for Parcelforce, he hasn’t participated in some of the strike days because he’s losing £127 each time he does it. He said it’s getting to the point where he feels like he can’t strike anymore because the pay raise will not cover the amount he’s lost from striking.
Not only that, but he’s said the strikes had made little to no difference the way it’s been done because parcel force have a vast amount of agency workers to fill the gap, making the strikes relatively pointless, there’s no lost revenue or incentive to increase the wages.
Although if he’s getting £127 a day, maybe I’m not in the right job, I’d take a £13k pay rise.
It’s an insulting offer, consisting of
– 2% they already imposed
– 3.5% from when the deal is agreed, so not even backdated
– 1.5% next year
– a lump sum that is less than a weeks wage
All when inflation is in double digits and predicted to stay there, so at minimum would be a 13% pay cut.
And in return they want the CWU and employees to agree to vast changes that make working conditions much worse.
Oh and to top it all off they’ve decided that all new recruits to the business will get recruited on significantly worse contracts as of the 31st October – less pay for more hours, including Sunday working for no extra pay.
You honestly couldn’t do more as a CEO to piss off an already militant and pissed off workforce.
financial warfare. They know you can’t afford to care, or to fight.
​
They print, we rent.
They have hundreds of billions hoarded in bank accounts. Literal cancer of society, soaking up millions of hours of human labor and saving it for their own desires.
While I’d love a decent pay rise, it’s more about the massive changes to the way we work that I’m not happy with (different start times, Sunday working etc).
It’s a childcare issue for me and many of the other posties. Finish at 2pm, go pick up child etc. it’s simply not going to work if the job I’ve been in for 10years changes that drastically.
I understand the rail strikes in as much as these people’s jobs are not transferable so there’s an argument that they have spent their careers learning a very niche set of skills they would not be able to apply elsewhere and need unions to protect them. With Royal Mail, your skills are transferable (I think?) and so while I believe everyone should be paid fairly, if you are not happy with your pay and conditions do you not vote with your feet and leave? Like, I have a job that also has a transferable skill, when I’m unhappy I leave my job and get another job, up-skilling as necessary. What’s the difference here, as Royal Mail is a private company now isn’t it? Not trying to start an argument I’m genuinely curious I’ve been OOTL on this one.
All this is going off but everyone seems oblivious that Grant Shapps has given the go ahead to Czech Daniel Kretinsky’ for a possible takeover attempt of Royal Mail.
With heavy hints that they are minded to change the Royal Mail six day a week obligation into five. Which will definitely lead to job cuts….
I know it’s selfish but Royal Mail stole a package of mine this week and now I’m losing all sympathy for these strikes.