The vote is in : 75.8% yes

[sixfoottwo]

Fu***** rigged!

[Duesouth]

I know a lot of young folk (new starts especially) didn't bother to vote. Some of them didn't even know what they were voting for

[thefox]

The extremists got it wrong, bigly!

Extremists...get a grip.

[glynnlondon]

Maybe 1/3 of the work force were so disillusioned they chucked it in the bin.
I know myself and a few others did.
It is what it is but good luck engaging everyone on a national level moving forward

[Jefferson Starfish]

The extremists got it wrong, bigly!

pot, kettle, black.

[ebbzie]

Sent message to HR , stop payments to cwu as of today. Cant support us why should we pay them

[Woody Guthrie]

One third of the workforce couldn’t be bothered or didn’t get a paper (not that many I expect).
Unbelievable really.

Or found neither option particularly appetising?

[nuisance]

Really?

75% of people supported a deal that was worse than the first one which we were almost all up for striking over?

I am proud to be different and shall embrace that fact that people just f-ing baffle me.

[worktotime]

Time to leave the union.

just emailed them to cancel , i might as well save myself £14 a month and fight my own corner like i always have done , cwu all talk and no action

[sixfoottwo]

So f***** glad i never put my name to that, shocking.

[Woody Guthrie]

What it does show for not the first time is that the loudest voices are not always the voice of the majority.

This is one of the most difficult things a union has to deal with from office level right through to national level.

The silent majority are often silent because they cannot be heard over the noise made by the minority.

[jahbalon]

Common Sense Prevailed

God Bless the CWU and Davie Ward and Terry Pullinger

[Chitchat]

Maybe 1/3 of the work force were so disillusioned they chucked it in the bin.
I know myself and a few others did.
It is what it is but good luck engaging everyone on a national level moving forward

I didn't vote. I couldn't bring myself to vote yes to this deal. But I also couldn't vote no. Simply because I had no faith that this union could negotiate a better deal. (They clearly had given up) They would have probably gotten us an even worse deal. After we have lost even more money striking.

[Shadedpostie]

Cool, at this point couldn't of given a s**t whatever happens to this company. You have a union that fumbled the bag majorly, a dumbass board of dipshits that somehow turned a £750 million profit into the sorry state it's in now, and also thick as pig s**t posties that continue to come into work for f**k all, rush around like headless chicken and then moan about more being put on them. Be taking the money and getting the hell outta this circus.

[postslippete]

I must admit that its a bit surprising that we have gone from a 97% mandate for strike action to a 75% yes vote for this deal just 6 months later.


The CWU leadership have performed quite a turnaround. But then you look at most the comments on the live YT video and you can't help but think otherwise?

Anyway, it is what it is. We live to fight another day.