The head of the union representing postal workers has said they will strike “for as long as it takes” as they try to reach an agreement.
Dave Ward, General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union, told Sky News there have been some “positive discussions” but further reassurances are needed to settle the dispute.
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I have family members who work for the Royal Mail and have worked for them. They get very well for what they do. This is pure greed. Nothing else.
The new work force is arriving daily at Dover
The agency staff recruited to do the work are costing twice as much and doing a quarter of the work that an employee does.
That’s the Simon Thompson way, shareholders should send the guy packing before they loose the value of their investment completely.
the postal workers mean Royal Mail only?
Who needs the Royal Mail these days? for most people letters are a thing of the past email is much easier, the one time of the year when people use mail is Christmas to send cards then they go on strike, as for packages there are lots of better companies for delivering packages not least Amazon who can supply just about anything. These Union guys remind of the car industry years ago most of it is gone now as they looked backwards not forwards.
Get yourself a long Xmas holiday by striking on the 23 & 24 and leave everyone waiting for their Xmas cards, well done chaps that is the way to get public sympathy. Obviously paid too much, for when I was a postie the 12 hour days of "Xmas pressure" was well needed as were the tips from the public!
Just a load of greedy people using their union strength to grab more than the rest of us. The Post Office is too big, a monolith of huge proportions. Staff have become lazy through lack of control, as happened in all previously state run organisations. Steel, Coal, Education, Transport, BBC were all inflicted with the same malaise. Even after privatization it was the same staff with the same attitudes that spoiled the industries. Now we see greed rearing its ugly head again in those industries with staff numbers large enough to put pressure on an already stretched economy. How strange that these industries are the ones that are, or once were, nationalized. The answer is simple.
Supporting the workers!
Stay strong!
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no they will not as if this carries on people will just move on and use another service then they will have no job to go back too
who paid for the hats .. i bet us the tax payer
Who cares royal mail is completely useless who needs letters we have emails and all the other companies delivering parcels are much better and more reliable don't like the pay work somewhere else
Scummy greedy tossers.
I try not to ever use rm it’s no reliable.
Simon Thompson is a bell end who is running Royal Mail into the ground, The sooner he goes the better and then the future of this 506 years !!! old public service will be a lot brighter
Ransome again
Good on the posties 100% behind them
If they don’t get a result over the festive period, I’d say that’s just about the end for Royal Mail. Any more strikes over the next 11 months would be futile.
Go on, strike yourselves out of a job! There’s plenty of other companies now in competition with Royal Mail. They’ll be loving it! Ha ha ha! 😆
Carry on
Folk will turn to private delivery firms
It's the end of Royal Mail
It's a private business sadly, and with the way we communicate changing rapidly , how many send letters and cards anymore , then royal mail needs to change ,yes postman and women deserve a rise ,but the business needs to change to survive
We now live in a failed society run by fools
Funny thing all these postal workers will be down the Kermit after Christmas as companies move to more reliable courier services.
we don't need royal mail, give everyone an official governement email address.
Good, less crap for my blue bin.
Talk about strike yourself out of a job lol.
Simon numpty Dumpty bogus clown Thompson is full of puuu puuu
What are the salaries of these union secretaries?
posties have been offered a deal and turned it down , It may not be what they were hoping for but they ain’t getting any better. Posties get good pay compared to alot of other people. , STRIKING TODAY. JOB CENTRE TOMORROW.
The sad thing is, the GPO isn't a good service. I use other companies now, as the GPO has lost my parcels and letters time and again. It need's to be entirely overhauled.
And of course, the current situation in UK, got nothing to do with brexit…
Where will it stop? Now thousands of businesses will want better pay and conditions for a few grinches in royal mail etc…
General Britons are waiting when corrupt Sunak government gonna collapse to join ex PMs club ….it seems Britons non -stop-uprising train soon starts…..a wind of change unclear to where it goes…
So I won't get my bills? 🙈😁
We have plenty of courier companies in UK, some of them excellent but no one seems to want to to take on letters. As a pensioner I am sick of striking workers in the middle of a recession just looking out for themselves, meaning prices to us, who are already suffering.
Since its privatisation the service has diminished with less deliveries. Obviously, it isn't working how it should do.
Final nail in the coffin for Royal Mail. Strikes have helped the public realise that they just dont need them. Much cheaper, more efficient parcel couriers, and emails replace snail mail.
I have a question about this because I'm not very well informed so please don't jump on me, I want to understand the viewpoint. Surely inflation is rising and things are getting more expensive for everyone-I can't go on strike to ask for money from my boss. Where is the government supposed to find the money to give these pay rises now? Shouldn't we all just be trying to slow down and take it easy over the next year or so as we pull out of this recession and let the economy recover? Surely for the postal industry to succeed etc, things are going to become more automated, the Royal Mail will obviously hire less and the industry will shrink? I don't really understand this but I'm commenting because I want to understand it and I want to listen to the scenario and not be ignorant.
Only joking
Govt have agreed to their terms letter is in the post 🤣🤣🤣
Who actually posts letters these day? Is is still 1984?
Absolutely, if they can afford to borrow for war in ukraine they most definitely can afford to borrow for wage increase for postal workers and nurses.
They’ll just sell RM off to Amazon or something, and get a load of Eastern Europeans to do it for a load less