daveyeff wrote:they'll win their injunction on breach of mail integrity.
Perhaps, simply obtaining a delay is the intended action from this injunction.
I wonder how long these things usually take to come to a conclusion. It may well be that the legal wrangling pushes back any potential strike to after Xmas, and even if Royal Mail lose, the delay would almost completely nullify it's effectiveness.
There has never been a better time to cripple RM with a simple (if unofficial) work to rule than right now
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They will be reliant on us doing huge amounts of overtime in the next 7 weeks to deal with election material AND Christmas pressure, we will cause just as much disruption by simply declining their request for us to go over our time and we wouldn't lose any money through strike action.
Rumple wrote:This is just another clear sign of what a horrible, nasty, sneaky company we work for. I hope the CWU haven't blown this again though. RM have form for running rings round our Union.
Whos going to stop there union payments if we lose the court battle?
wacko74 wrote:There has never been a better time to cripple RM with a simple (if unofficial) work to rule than right now
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They will be reliant on us doing huge amounts of overtime in the next 7 weeks to deal with election material AND Christmas pressure, we will cause just as much disruption by simply declining their request for us to go over our time and we wouldn't lose any money through strike action.
There have been a couple of mentions of the term 'work to rule' in this post which all of us should avoid using like the plague. RM really dislike this term and will use it against us. By all means follow all the rules from RM & the union - indeed you should do this anyway - but do not attach that terminology to what you are doing and categorically deny any connection between your actions and those three words.
I really hope & pray that RM do not succeed and that usage of social media to rub RMs noses in the **** has backfired on us monumentally. Union reps should really know that using social media in reference to RM can be problematic. If we don't get the opportunity to strike in the lead up to Xmas we will have lost all our leverage and in the medium to long term our jobs are destroyed.
The views I express here are mine alone and do not represent the views of Royal Mail Group.
leolion855 wrote:Just face it guys, we've lost, so its time to either come to terms with what RM are offering or start looking for alternative income.
We haven't lost yet if RMs ploy to stop or delay industrial action fails but it is a bit of a cock up on the part of those people who made a big deal of voting en masse on social media. RM are craftier than a cartload of monkeys but not necessarily as intelligent so we have to be careful what we do.
The views I express here are mine alone and do not represent the views of Royal Mail Group.
How ironic that as we approach the 11th of November (a day to remember OUR fallen heroes who were fighting for OUR democracy) Royal Mail go running to the courts with some bullshit technicality to void the result of a democratic vote.
They should hang their heads in shame and I just hope that the courts see this for what it is.
Are there any videos of actual opening their own mail in a delivery office??? Who's to say the voting paper wasn't brought in to work the following day?
stoneybroke wrote:How ironic that as we approach the 11th of November (a day to remember OUR fallen heroes who were fighting for OUR democracy) Royal Mail go running to the courts with some bullshit technicality to void the result of a democratic vote.
They should hang their heads in shame and I just hope that the courts see this for what it is.
It is those who broke the laws regarding trade union ballots and then posted evidence of them doing so on social media who should hang their heads in shame. Their sabotage may have cost us all the opportunity of fighting to keep this as a decent job.
Either we hear soon that the union has expelled them all or else I give up my membership. Working alongside these idiots in the future would be far worse than working alongside strikebreakers.
Do you honestly think that any of those people who you mention had the slightest inkling that what they were doing could derail the IA process? Turning on each other will not help, neither will rolling over.
"A third of the world's farmland is now useless due to soil degradation, yet we still keep producing mouths to feed. And what's you answer to that? Energy saving lightbulbs?"
My form was handed to me by the union rep as soon as I walked into work, I asked him to put it back in the frame and I would look at it when I got home,10 minutes later the postman delivering my road brought it back to me to fill out, I was definitely put under pressure to fill it out in the office, I'm happy I didn't now
As the CWU were expecting the legal challenge, this development would not have come as a surprise. I can understand those who have conceded defeat already but it does not change the overwhelming result which won support for strike action.