Royal Mail Pay and Future of the Company 14th May 2007

[yorkie]

CHEERS TOMMO MATE .....

TO ANYONE WHO DITHERING ON WHICH WAY TO VOTE THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY IF YOU WANT A FUTURE IN R/M.

THAT IS A BIG MASSIVE X IN THE YES BOX.

TRUST ME AS SOME PEOPLE ARE ALREADY EXPERIENCING EXECUTIVE ACTION THIS THEY ARE PLANNING TO DO

IN EVERY OFFICE . DONT BE FOOLRD THINKING THAT YOU OR YOUR OFFICE WONT BE AFFECTED.

WE NEED A MASSIVE YES VOTE ..............................

[johno47]

I dont see eye to eye with Fozzie a lot of the time as many of you have seen by the banter that we have between us from time to time, but i agree hes entitled to his opinion and i respect anybody for that, but that doesnt mean im going to go easy on you Fozzie... UNITY IS STRENGTH.

[ROCKY]

oy fozzie
when our top boys leave/retire/get better offer/see sense
are you going for one of their jobs
you could be our trojan horse

[F0zziebear]

Gents,

Appreciate the support, and take the apologt with the grace in which it was written.

One day I will ride in on my trojan horse and save the world

Until then I am sipping PIMMS whilst the weather is still good

F0zz

KEEPING EYES & EARS open for gossip

[L Tommo]

STRING HIM UP BY HIS FOZZIE BITS!!!

FECKING PIMS OCLOCK!!!!

U GOTTA LARF AT HIS OPENESS AND CHEEK AINT YA!!!

DAM U FOZZIE


LMAO!!!!


OUT

ITS A JOLLY HOLIDAY WITH FOZZIE, FOZZIE MAKES YA FEEL SOOOO GRAND!!!

[phantomshare]

What happened to thr ballot papers? have been rallying the troops since monday telling them how important it is to vote yes, would love to see them land tomorrow while it's still fresh in their minds, would see it as an error in timing if they didn't arrive before the bank holiday weekend..

Support your union and vote YES and give them the power to negotiate.

[L Tommo]

BIG X IN A YES BOX Thanks very much Big AL ....

ALL THE DIRTY TRICKS IN THE WORLD WONT MAKE IT ANY BETTER AND HIDE THE FACT
U LIE LIKE A CHEAP SUIT AND ARE AS USEFUL AS A ASHTRAY ON A MOTOBIKE!!!

FECK OFF N TAKE YA lil ad WITH YA!!!

OUT


YES............................................................................................................................

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Got it and a new fourm up as well http://www.royalmailchat.co.uk/forum/vi ... highlight= called DID I VOTE FIRST or something.

[dinho1]

got mine at half 9 . posted by 11 with a big YES vote

[Andy Bentley]

From the Socialist weekly paper of the Socialist Party


By Gary Clark, sub area rep, Scotland No.2 branch Communication Workers' Union (CWU)

POSTAL WORKERS up and down the country are voting in the most important industrial action ballot in the history of Royal Mail.
Royal Mail's latest "full and final" pay offer is in fact a pay cut and an onslaught on our terms and conditions. It must be fought with all the might of the CWU nationally.

Royal Mail's propaganda machine has gone into overdrive. Not a day goes by without postal workers receiving a letter to their home address or a brief by their management team.
At the same time management have refused CWU reps the right to address their members or even hand out leaflets, including in the meal breaks.

Inflation for April, when the rise was due, was at 4.8% so the offer of 2.5% is really a 2.3% cut. At the same time they say we are 25% over-paid and under-worked by 40%! Tell that to postal workers who walk the streets with overweight bags, day in, day out.

But of course this is because they compare us to non-unionised workers like at TNT and UK Mail. They want us to go down to their terms. But we are in the bottom 25% of earners in the country.

Then they go on to say their managers are leading by example. The top 500 have taken a wage freeze this year. That is quite easy if you count your wages in the £100,000s, or if you are the chief executive Adam Crozier who earned £1,038,000 last year. This would take a postal worker over 60 years to earn.

But this is not just a pay cut, it is an out-and-out attack on our terms and conditions and on the right for the union to negotiate on our behalf. They want postal workers to take on extra workload by increasing the leaflets that we deliver from three to five without any extra pay, despite them making an extra £41 million out of this.

They want to close mail centres at the weekends, resulting in job losses. And they want us to be "totally flexible" - in other words, do anything they want us to do.
In the summer they want five workers to do the work of six but they can't explain how.
And they expect us to cover sick absence within our own duty time. It's clear that management are preparing for a battle.

So must the union - first by getting a massive 'yes' vote.

Above-inflation pay rise with no strings
Shorter working week now
No changes to our pension scheme
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Postal workers in Burslem and Stoke have their say

"A decent pay increase for us is vital. But this ballot is about even more than that. It's about our whole future as postal workers." - a Stoke postal worker

"We've had enough of the dictats of Royal Mail bosses. Now is the time to build for a big 'yes' vote for strike action!"
Leighton and Crozier are taking the piss. We have to vote 'yes' in this ballot." - From postal workers in the Burslem depot

The ballot ends on 7 June, with the result announced on the same day.

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[yorkie]

DUN AND DUSTE BIG X IN THE YES BOX

LETS SHOW UNITY AND POSTIES UP AND DOWN THE COUNTRY STAND TOGETHER

VOTE YES..