Mirror:UNIONS ACCUSE ROYAL MAIL OF DIRTY TRICKS

[NEWS]

STRIKING post workers yesterday accused Royal Mail of dirty tricks by using taxis and private cars to deliver letters.

The Communication Workers Union claimed management resorted to "desperate" measures in the face of "overwhelming" support for the walkout, which crippled services.

Union officials said the vast majority of their 130,000 members backed the pay strike, losing around £60 each.
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But the company claimed support was "patchy", with up to 60 per cent of staff working in some areas.

Pickets outside Royal Mail's Mount Pleasant centre in London claimed managers were bundling mail into taxis and courier vans in an effort to deliver priority post.

CWU leader Billy Hayes said: "They are going to desperate lengths to try to get some deliveries out.

"It seems they would rather fork out for taxis and courier firms than pay our members what they deserve."

But a Royal Mail spokesman denied the union's claim.

The union is expected to set more strike dates when it meets next Tuesday, unless management improves a 2.5 per cent pay offer.

Mr Hayes said: "The company has been in denial about the workforce rejecting the pay offer.

"They are now in denial about the overwhelming support of postal workers taking strike action.

"It is time for them to get real and start negotiating."

Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier said: "The union don't seem to realise how damaging the strike is to us and our customers.

"The simple fact is our rivals pay their people 25 per cent less and they're 40 per cent more efficient.

"These challenges won't go away and the longer we put off change the greater the threat to Royal Mail."

The company said workers stood to collect an £800 cash dividend on top of the 2.5per cent rise if the business hit its targets this year.

But CWU deputy leader Dave Ward accused management of trying to drive down wages by 25 per cent.

[POSTMAN]

In the paper version there was a pic of a manager loading up a white van with bags.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Crozier ought to buy a new record the ones he's got at the moment keeps getting stuck.

[DirtyHarry]

In the paper version there was a pic of a manager loading up a white van with bags.

LOL. Our managers are so unintentionally funny, they really ought to be on the telly. I suppose if it weren't for copyright laws,
they could call themselves Goons !

:lfo :cfo :lfo :cfo :lfo :cfo

[Homer]

Royal mail will throw money at anything if they think they are losing face, when Burslem was out at christmas they threw loads of money at our office in an attempt to break us, they paid managers from all over the country to come to our office some they paid overnight accomadation for, they were paying £900 a day for food and drink for casual and managers, they hired loads of vans, we have 110 staff at our office and most days over christmas they had an extra 150 casuals plus managers delivering, the b***ards have got money they just dont want to give it us.

[vigilante]

crozier is like a f*****g dense robot that keeps spitting out the same ole s**t.
must be on overload. will have to be careful he will blow his one brain cell!!

:cfo

[cybergrinder]

in our office we have approx 105 staff and only 2 went in. Plus there was five managers in. I bet they where bored stiff with noboby to pick on!!!!!!

[vigilante]

perhaps they had a game of hide and seek the asshole

[cybergrinder]