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Strike action by CWU members working in Crown Post Offices has been solidly supported today, Easter Saturday, with most offices remaining closed all day. Over 2,000 CWU members took part in strike action. Picket lines and demonstrations sprang up across the country, from Plymouth to London, Camarthen to Leeds, Redcar, Kirkby, Hastings and Margate, Aberdeen and Glasgow, to name but a few. See the day in pictures below.
In Stockwell (above with Billy Hayes and Dave Ward centre) - where the Crown office is facing closure meaning customers would have to travel by bus or tube to Brixton for the next nearest Crown Post
Office - CWU leaders joined striking Post Office workers. Ola Ao, a counter clerk at Stockwell said: "I've worked here ten years. They're a great bunch here, hard-working. And we deserve a fair pay rise and to save our post office." And a local passer-by, Leroy Meggie, explained the importance of Stockwell office, saying: "I've lived here over 40 years and I need my local Post Office. I use this place about three times a week. I support the protest."
Andy Furey, CWU national official, said the action had been solidly supported across the country. "Our members have sent a strong message to Post Office management today by solidly supporting strike action against closures, job losses, and pay. Strike action was solidly supported in Scotland and across the UK.
"We hope the Post Office listens to the concerns of their staff. They can avoid further disruption by agreeing to negotiations to resolve this dispute.
"It's ironic that the Post Office has been trying to say 100 offices remained open today when by their own plans they want to lose 76 Crown offices. That's 20% of the network and would hit communities badly. We won't let these go without a fight and ask again for the Post Office to meet us to resolve this. We're confident there is a way forward but this has to be by negotiation."
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Huge support for Easter Saturday Post Office strike action
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Huge support for Easter Saturday Post Office strike action
I Wrote-During Covid-Which is still relevant now
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
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The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
It's good to get these types of threads, the ridiculous my manager said bollox, so we can reassure ourselves that while the world is falling apart, Royal Mail managers are still being the low-life C***S they have always been.
My BFF Clash
The daily grind of having to argue your case with an intellectual pigmy of a line manager is physically and emotionally draining.
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Re: Huge support for Easter Saturday Post Office strike acti
Posting on facebook ......Message for Senior Management in the Post office ......Saturdays strike action was not knee-jerk, it was action that the CWU and its members were forced to take as a last resort. We had no option but to make a heartfelt and passionate statement that sent a clear message that we are not going to pay for your mistakes.
Contrary to your press releases, it is not the union nor its members that are the ones being unrealistic. It was you that signed up to an arbitrary and unworkable timeline and now you expect the workers on the front-line to pay for it with pay cuts and job losses.
Your unimaginative cost cutting policies has resulted in this fiasco and instead of recognising that you need to invest in the people that service our most important asset..the CUSTOMER (remember them?), you have treated them with dismissive contempt.
Your strategy so far has not worked so what do you do? You do the same again only more of it!? More cuts, more targets, more managers., more finger in the air policies. Don't you think that you may be missing something?
You say you want the Post Office to be more community focused and yet you have no conscience about the consequences to the high street of closing or franchising Crown offices. You say you want us to take ownership of the PO and yet you try to whip it out from under us. You say that you want to win our hearts and minds and yet you fail to recognise our dedication, loyalty and commitment.
How about making a more realistic deal and we will make a commitment to you..invest in your workforce by making a sensible and realistic consolidated pay offer, change your strategy by having a system in place that supports the frontline as opposed to works against it or hits us with a big stick, leave our offices alone so that we are not distracted by having to fight for our jobs and help us be proactive in the community by giving us the tools to focus on the needs of our local customer base.
Work with us to make a Post Office we can be proud of. You know it makes sense!
Contrary to your press releases, it is not the union nor its members that are the ones being unrealistic. It was you that signed up to an arbitrary and unworkable timeline and now you expect the workers on the front-line to pay for it with pay cuts and job losses.
Your unimaginative cost cutting policies has resulted in this fiasco and instead of recognising that you need to invest in the people that service our most important asset..the CUSTOMER (remember them?), you have treated them with dismissive contempt.
Your strategy so far has not worked so what do you do? You do the same again only more of it!? More cuts, more targets, more managers., more finger in the air policies. Don't you think that you may be missing something?
You say you want the Post Office to be more community focused and yet you have no conscience about the consequences to the high street of closing or franchising Crown offices. You say you want us to take ownership of the PO and yet you try to whip it out from under us. You say that you want to win our hearts and minds and yet you fail to recognise our dedication, loyalty and commitment.
How about making a more realistic deal and we will make a commitment to you..invest in your workforce by making a sensible and realistic consolidated pay offer, change your strategy by having a system in place that supports the frontline as opposed to works against it or hits us with a big stick, leave our offices alone so that we are not distracted by having to fight for our jobs and help us be proactive in the community by giving us the tools to focus on the needs of our local customer base.
Work with us to make a Post Office we can be proud of. You know it makes sense!