LABOUR SHOWING THE TRUE COLOURS AGAIN (BLUE)

[TrueBlueTerrier]

This is not really a news item so posted in Blue Shirts:

http://www.labourhome.org/story/2007/8/1/165117/4646

The CWU are wrong to escalate industrial action with the Royal Mail

The CWU's campaign of strike action at the Royal Mail is not helping but harming its members in the long run.

Solidarity with Trade Unions and their campaigns is the bread and butter of being part of the Labour party. Nevertheless, I find myself increasingly frustrated with the CWU over their industrial action at the Royal Mail.

I have two main reasons for this:

1. The CWU need to realise that an open postal market means that for old monopolies, the only way is down; Royal Mail is not going to increase its market share in the face of competitive pressure. As a result, it will become increasingly difficult for the company to sustain the workforce and working practices of old as business moves from the old monopoly to new entrants. In addition, the impact of electronic communication on old postal business models is profound.

2. Given the Royal Mail's future business relies predominantly on its ability to meet customer expectations today, the strike action organised by the CWU will not alleviate but compound the problem it is trying to solve. The Royal Mail makes its money through business customers and these businesses need certainty in postal delivery. The current rounds of industrial action will force more companies to reconsider their postal arrangements, and it is more than likely that Royal Mail will lose business at a result of this strike action.

However, far from strengthening the CWUs position, loss of business will weaken them. As the Royal Mail continues to lose business, there will be ever increasing pressure on their management to make 'efficiency' savings - and this will probably mean redundancies. A weaker financial position will also almost certainly make it harder for the CWU to argue for inflation busting pay rises for its members in future.

And, at the end of the day, the CWU must realise that as the strikes continue, and people and business fail to get their post delivered on time, that support for their industrial action will wane. As will the prospect of them ever actually receiving anything other than bad news from the Royal Mail management.

Both sides in this dispute need to very quickly knock their heads together and sort this out, for their own sakes

[Spartacus]

New Labour=Old Tories.

F*ck 'em we'll do it without them.

[rhino49]

........quote"In addition, the impact of electronic communication on old postal business models is profound."

In actual fact, email has replaced a lot of telephone calls that people haven't got the nerve to make and face to face conversations they would rather not have, and consists mainly of intranet systems within businesses that we wouldn't have handled anyhow along with countless adverts for penis enhancement and viagra mainly aimed at our managers.

Email has also created an additional communication phenomenon that is in addition to normal mailing systems by encouraging people to communicate who were unable or unwilling to use letters to transfer information in the first place.

At the end of the day it hasn't and I doubt ever will replace the amount of physical mail it is credited with. Email needs to be far more secure and have more permanent server status than it has before the public generally will adopt it as a preferred medium, and as the businesses that are more likely to move over are already using our competitors instead of us - who gives a damn !

[ROCKY]

the fax was invented=we all would loose our jobs
e mail came along=we would all loose our jobs
internet/broadband=we would all loose our jobs
tnt etc came along=we would all loose our jobs
maybe its just me or is there a patern here

[somerset]

You forgot Crozier came along = we would all loose our jobs :cfo

[IWW Fellow Worker]

New Labour=Old Tories.

F*ck 'em we'll do it without them.

And they can do without our cash!

Come on Billy Hayes! Stop being a bloody idiot. They're laughing at you! Break the link now!

[johno47]

Couldnt agree moree IWW Fellow Worker, they are just f***ing leeches, the union could have used that money towards helping us while were on strike.
In amazes me that the real problems within RM have been caused by the goverment, that stabbed hard working people in the back and sold us down the river, the very people that made a financial contribution towards them winning their seats in goverment, i hate the Conservatives, i mean really hate them, but at least you knew that they wanted to privatise us, these sneaky b***ards have done it through the back door, i thought when they came to power that we would at last have a bit of security, fat chance...UNITY IS STRENGTH.

[mdtomuk]

And, at the end of the day, the CWU must realise that as the strikes continue, and people and business fail to get their post delivered on time, that support for their industrial action will wane. As will the prospect of them ever actually receiving anything other than bad news from the Royal Mail management.

Both sides in this dispute need to very quickly knock their heads together and sort this out, for their own sakes


JUST SHOWS HOW OUT OF TOUCH THIS PERSON IS - THE PUBLIC ARE TOTALLY BEHIND US, MY AVERAGE MIDDLE CLASS JOES AND JOSEPHINES TELL ME SO. THEY ARE SUDDENLY REALISING HOW IT WILL IMPACT UPON THEM IF ALLAN W*NK WINS.
AND AS FOR BOTH SIDES OF DISPUTE KNOCKING HEADS TOGETHER - WELL THAT IS B*LL*X AND DOESN'T REQUIRE COMMENT!

:cfo :lfo

[bexhil palace]

Over 1000 signatures today in support alone.
yep the public are deserting us in droves.