Workers threaten 'long and bitter' strike to save their gold

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 04 Mar 2008, 14:40

Postal workers threaten 'long and bitter' strike to save their gold-plated pensions

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1770

Postal workers threatened a long and bitter strike yesterday over changes to their pensions.

Unions are furious at Royal Mail's plans for an overhaul of one of the country's largest and most generous pension schemes.

The threat comes just a few months after one of the biggest strikes to hit the service in years.

The company's proposals will affect some 190,000 existing workers, as well as new recruits.

If implemented, they will mark a watershed for the public sector, which has jealously guarded its final salary pensions as similar schemes disappeared rapidly from the private sector.

Under the plan, Royal Mail's final salary scheme will close from April 1.

Existing workers will be switched into a less lucrative scheme, based on "career average earnings" rather than final salary.

In a further blow, they will have to work until 65 to get their full pension, compared to 60 at the moment. Workers' contributions of six per cent will not be raised.

The biggest losers will be new recruits, who will have to wait a year to join the company pension.

To make matters worse, they will get a "defined contribution" plan, which offers less security than the current scheme.

Royal Mail insists it has no choice because of a Â£5billion black hole in its fund, one of the biggest in Britain.

It says it is costing the firm about Â£850million a year, one of the largest pensions bills faced by any employer.

The Unite union, which represents around 10,000 Royal Mail managers, accused the company of "asking for too much too soon". It is recommending members reject Royal Mail's proposals.

Jon Millidge, a Royal Mail director, said the company was trying to give "the best possible pension plan it can afford".

Post by **TrueBlueTerrier** » 04 Mar 2008, 14:42

Gold Plated Pension - WTF

- OK RM Chat attack dogs

- please put them right - I have

IWW Fellow Worker · Post by **IWW Fellow Worker** » 04 Mar 2008, 15:14

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:The Unite union, which represents around 10,000 Royal Mail managers, accused the company of "asking for too much too soon". It is recommending members reject Royal Mail's proposals.

Here we go! The CMA storming the Winter Palace, red flags aloft and revolution in the air! Fat chance!

DirtyHarry · Post by **DirtyHarry** » 04 Mar 2008, 19:56

Right, I've added my two penneth worth on that Tory rag's site.
Gold-plated pensions, trust that rag to attack the wrong group of people.

doveston · Post by **doveston** » 04 Mar 2008, 21:58

you see the picture they have used? a striking postie with a can of cider.the cwu HAVE to get a fuÂ£%ing decent publicist NOW.
i said this all through the last strikes and they never did

the public believe thats all we do and we skip around our deliverys.
no win situation until the cwu get thier arse into gear.

L Tommo · Post by **L Tommo** » 04 Mar 2008, 22:17

doveston wrote:you see the picture they have used? a striking postie with a can of cider.the cwu HAVE to get a fuÂ£%ing decent publicist NOW.
i said this all through the last strikes and they never did

the public believe thats all we do and we skip around our deliverys.
no win situation until the cwu get thier arse into gear.

shite... Aint me with the cider is it????

I better get a look in...?

WAIT A BIT.....

doveston · Post by **doveston** » 04 Mar 2008, 22:23

wasn't me with the cider ,i prefare lager,but the fact is the public percive us as that picture.

L Tommo · Post by **L Tommo** » 04 Mar 2008, 22:28

Na aint me... DONT READ THAT SHITE PAPER AND DONT DRINK Blackthorn cider...

Notice the postie was reading the same rag???

At least it wernt the sun....

OUT

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 04 Mar 2008, 22:39

It was nice to read the comments saying 'We have lost or final salary scheme so we demand everybody loses theirs' or my favourite ones are the 'Iwish someone would set up a rival company' (of course forgetting that for the past 2 years everybody CAN but won't because there's no money in it) or the ones saying 'Sack them all and give the jobs to those who want to work' (who will leave after a few hours because they can't do the job and there is no money or security in it or who steal everything they get)

Post by **plodsie** » 04 Mar 2008, 22:45

No, I love the one "sack them all and give it to people who can do a honest day's work"....

Surely a DM reader not advocating the use of some of the 40million immigrants who arrived here last week, to work for peanuts to deliver the mail that they don't need or use, at night?

People who haven't a clue should keep their mouths shut.

DGP1 · Post by **DGP1** » 04 Mar 2008, 22:51

plodsie wrote:No, I love the one "sack them all and give it to people who can do a honest day's work".... Surely a DM reader not advocating the use of some of the 40million immigrants who arrived here last week, to work for peanuts to deliver the mail that they don't need or use, at night?

People who haven't a clue should keep their mouths shut.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_p5rjX7gMWo Daily Mail readers?

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