On the first day of strikes, Kay Burley is joined by Royal Mail’s CEO Simon Thompson, who promised customers that the postal service is doing everything possible to “protect Christmas”.
He went on to blame union leaders for destroying the festive season, potentially following up his claims in future debates to come.
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RIP Royal Mail.
Broken model
Football answer is rubbish, not allowed
No time roster for matches, no flags, no talking, 1920's management
This little weasel is not going to last much longer. Power to the posties.
Get rid of all CEOs, they can’t organise a piss up in breweries
Did he say he pays 18% more than the industry norm… is he accusing other companies of paying less than minimum wage?
Yeah yeah baloney will not meet and face cwu leader on camera as knows he will be destroyed. Rip the business apart bleed all the resources and run with the money, just racketeering.
What a slimeball. He needs sacking immediately
Herpes simplex simon.
Maybe the postie need to stop the strikes and start working to rule, at least that way they will some money for Christmas
Why is he lying about the pay increase which is so easy to verify? How £500 ONE OFF payment can be qualified as a pay rise?? And it is not even guaranteed – it is subject to revision.. It is the manipulation of data and facts. I am sure that he is lying about the other matters as well..
Pay a fair wage and stop giving money to shareholders that already have enough money and stop lieing about the figuresm this guy truly is the Grinch
I can’t wait for the day that this lying, incompetent, bully to be held to account. He is totally unfit to hold any position of authority. People like him are entirely what is wrong with this country.
I think the Robert maxwell boat is waiting for the royalmail board no life jackets included
Tosser
Give this man a pay rise!
What a surprise, he's lying again! This is what us Royal Mail workers are dealing with on a daily basis. The man is a liar and a coward.
Mr Thompson, give them your bonus.
Oh dear funny everybody slagging off the CEO but I feel for the postman being used as a tool by the unions the understanding that Joe Public ain’t going to receive or post item due to the strike over the festive period will use other delivery firms this taking even more trade and revenue and by the time they finish what they lost in strike action and the thousands made redundant due to the fact people have started using anyone but Royal Mail the so called union bosses trying to bring down a government who also like the CEO on massive wages won’t give a hoot about the postie. Same will be with the train drivers and the nurses will end up being hated when people can’t get treatment. But the union bosses will be doing ok by it all. It’s a very worrying time for everyone oh except the union bosses.
For a company to be losing £1.2 million a day I dint think the shareholders would accept that as a business 🤔🤣 also the people they payed off to retire or voluntary redundancy is another why they'd be losing money which was there choice. I heard yesterday that McDonald's are going to be paying £12.50 an hour to there staff which is what normal postie is on.
haha look at him!!!! omgddd just as bad as his vile behaviour. evil!!!
Guy is a joke , it’s he’s fault and talks rubbish
CEO doesn't care about Christmas. He couldn't even answer a simple question. He needs to go asap!
if that isn't a admission to deliberately sabotaging the USO, I dont know what is
"Protect Christmas" and "Destroy Christmas"
This is the typical emotive language used by those in power to divide the public.
Don't trust the powerful, always stick up for the little guy.
Need this man to do a interview with the CWU on TV so he can be exposed for the lies that hide in the small print of his new non negotiable pay offer thats not worth the paper its written on
Stop trying to pull the rug from under your workers and families
Simon out!!!
Sky News aren't blameless here. The perfect piece for their socials would of been Thomson versus Ward which I'm sure they pushed for but the RM team clearly would of pulled out of that so we're left with half arsed challenged sound bites from what the company exec PR 'team' would allow on MSM. Any whiteboard reflection evidence on this one?
this is like Scrooge telling people he absolutely love xmas
If Royal Mail are losing £1.2 million a day the CEO should be losing their job!!
Criminal networks in the Royal Mail??????????
What utter drivel.
Well Kay made him look silly.
I think it’s time the Royal Mail disappeared, they have a monopoly on letter delivery which is an absolute joke given the competition rules that are in place for other industries, not fit for purpose anymore.