Thousands of Royal Mail postal workers are striking with further walkouts scheduled in December.
Sandy Best says she’s striking “to save the Royal Mail” after trade union CWU claimed the programme of modernisation the company is seeking would turn it into a “gig economy-style parcel courier, reliant on casual labour”.
Small business owner Sam Smith says he understands postal workers are striking to “protect what they think is important to them” but the disruption has forced him to find other methods of getting products to customers on time.
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Fully behind Royal Mail staff. It’s time we stopped fat cat salaries for select few and also put an end to shareholder greed at the expense of workers and stand firmly on the side of British workers who have been mugged year on year to serve a rich minority. Wealth in the UK is dangerously concentrated in the hands of few privileged.
Sack them all and replace with agency workers.
How dare these peasants want more?
Take the word royal off the company, there is nothing royal what this company is trying to do
The status quo is not going to remain afternoon deliveries for most and premium rates for morning deliveries
Whole country wants to strike
This is the idea of post-Brexit Britain for the Tories, the sweatshop of Europe here we come.
Is this being made worse by the ending of free movement? There used to be a larger supply of labour, now there's a more limited supply and many of the labourers are of older age. What happens when they get the pay rise they seek? I'm guessing prices will go up. Usually it's either low growth or inflation, but we've got both.
This postie absolutely destroyed this news anchor with her ridiculous questions. Very well prepared, respect.
The customers arnt going anywhere yet but if this carries on it may leave a gap in the market for another company to take its place.
She's brilliant. Everything she said was true. For me it's not about the money? It's about our terms and conditions. Sack Simon Thompson and replace him with Sandy. 👍🏻🇬🇧
Stand with all striking workers.
Crap
I gotta say…..Royal Mail was the worst company I ever worked for……discriminated and racially abused by a manager since day one……I only stayed for 3 years…..the management is beyond atrocious….they are destroying people's lifes.👍
Instead of being selfish (Sam smith) support workers and take your frustration out on millionaires and billionaires that pay no tax and their friends in government
Post person is for life not just for Christmas – support your postie – all year round we deliver your mail – no matter what the weather – all we ask for is fair pay and terms and conditions our peers fought for .
Sam's only concern is his profit. Simple…
Support the strike!
Strike by all means but not at xmas time where it hurts the public to much
WOW, Sky News needs to be ashamed platforming the selfish inconsiderates, look at this weasel with his box delivery bollox, when people are litteraly working for nothing !?! "Oh ma box deliveries" Absolute W#%ker. The News arse-wiper then suggests the take they the no conditions deal !? WOW !?
…are the Conservatives being cruel…?
I am indebted with union. I am steadfast Trade Union Member for 27 years of continious service.Thompson is nothing but an imposter. He is the cause of all those problems .I emplore all members of The United Kingdom General Public .Please don't be easily influenced by what the news or what ROYAL MAIL says !
25 Years at Royal Mail , what Simon Thompson is doing to the company is disgusting, he must go . Royal Mail is a 500 year old British institution , it must not be destroyed it’s still a public service. Corporate greed must end now . Save our Royal Mail.
I think they’ve planned for Royal Mail to end and go online or couriers , they collected profits then said losing 1 million a day so if so they’ve set it up to fail – why ? To convert to online and get rid of our Royal Mail
Nothing else seems to be going any other way to normal good pay and conditions
God bless everyone who’s built our GREAT COUNTRY AS IT IS and does everyday and Thankyou
👍🏼☀️
Well I have stopped ordering now on eBay because they use Royal Mail a lot and the delivery service is lousy
It’s almost as if Royal mail shouldn’t have been privatised….
I thought its wasn't Royal Mail any more ?
The art of DIVIDE AND CONQUER, is the oldest tactic in the history of the human race practiced by all political ideologies yet it still seems to work particularly well between people who think they are of a higher social and economic standing than the class who they perceive to be below them in these areas. In reality they are being appeased. and told what to think instead of thinking what the writing on the wall actually says. the torys have done this so much since they've been in power , Now its dividing the party , some now think they are conservatives and others now think they are tory. this tory practice of divide and conquer that they have bombarded the working class with for decades , is now going full circle and hitting there own ranks.
Sunak says banning strikes,. How is he gunna do that? The have already striked
Tell Johnson and truss to help deliver with there hard hats on,. He helped with Ukraine war,. So he should help out here and her
Together we stand, divided we fall. Solidarity to all and victory to the CWU.
General sausage immediately
I feel for the customer.im a postie.im confident we could be the best courier in uk.IF WE WERE ALLOWED TO BE..we have an infrastructure even bigger and better than the likes of amazon prime but we are mismanaged beyond belief.
HI,ALL. THE UK, PUBLIC SUPPORT THE UNIONS ,( SO FUC& THIS GOVERNMENT THE PUBLIC ARE SET FOR REVOLUTION NOW ??)
Still sort by hand in London
Viva Royal Mail….🥊
Why do DPD or Amazon Prime workers never have this issue? Because they are not lazy!
Guy with the beard..
A typically selfish, tory voting, as long as i'm all right jack, little englander.
Solidarity with all the striking workers! ✊️
Don't blame the workers.
Our PM is just changing the law to help out investment banks. But he cannot support all the striking workers who are living on minimum wage. It's pathetic. Leadership in the UK once again is just catering for the elites.
So how much will the price of a 1st Class stamp go up this time in order to pay for any wage increases?
Royal Mail is obsolete. It is a private company that cannot operate in the modern world.
Owner drivers also worked gallantly through the pandemic.
Royal Mail made a profit during the pandemic delivering and collecting test stuff. Some of this profit was distributed as dividends to share holders which included lots of Royal Mail employees who got shares at a discount. A lot was invested in infrastructure. The Royal Mail is now making a loss because it is loosing against commercial competition. The CWU and the unskilled postal workers now want the the service to be nationalized again and postal workers to earn £20 an hour whilst other distribution workers, many self employed, earn a fraction of that.
The government must not use tax payer money to support a private enterprise business. If the workers want more money then they need to earn it rather than sitting back and arguing about 'tradition'
The whole point is, ( these strikes would not be taking place.) , other than impossible terms and conditions, that simon thompson is trying to impose, so fault lays at simon thompsons door. ……