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jimm
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Agency Work

Post by jimm »

Hi all, I've just signed up to ask a question.
An agency has offered me some work in a sorting office on Thursday.
I've just noticed this coincides with the strikes, so I was just wondering are some places not on strike or are they asking me to scab?
If they are then I'll not be going.

Cheers
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Stockport
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Post by Stockport »

Hi mate
Sounds like an attempt to get people to scab.
If you want to send details to whatnextsteps @yahoo.com which is connected to an agency workers campaign that would be appreciated.

Has anyone else heard news of this going?
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ROCKY
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Post by ROCKY »

jimm it sounds like you would have a line to pass,hello and welcome to the site
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jimm
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Post by jimm »

Thanks for the replies, I gave you the wrong details though.

They want me to work this Saturday coming up (6th) and next Thursday (the 11th) both early shifts.
Are these during strikes?
I assume there would be no problem with working on non strike days?
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Post by baldrick »

Saturday is a strike day.
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jimm
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Post by jimm »

Thanks, I actually had a call this morning and the Saturday shift has been cancelled because of the strikes.
I'm not sure if they never new of the strikes when they offered me it or if they have just found out it's illegal to cover strikers.

Good luck all with the action.
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ROCKY
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Post by ROCKY »

cheers jimm,keep posting if you can it is interesting to get the views of an outsider looking in
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TomHodder
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Post by TomHodder »

hi!
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ROCKY
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Post by ROCKY »

tomhodder hello and welcome
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Post by IWW Fellow Worker »

It's just been on the Radio Merseyside phone-in that agency workers have all been warned that they will get finished up if they refuse to cross the CWU picket line in Liverpool. This is because of those Polish comrades who would not work during the last strike. According to the caller, the CWU in Liverpool produced leaflets in Polish explaining the situation. The agency workers support the industrial action, but the agency and RM have issued this threat against them. The phone-in host Roger Phillips said he will pass this on to the news section to follow the story up.
The Industrial Workers of the World. The union whose members never scab!

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jimm
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Post by jimm »

With the strikes coming to an end (for this week), how do royal mail workers feel about agency workers in general?

As I have said before I would never cross a line and work during the strikes but do you have any issues if they were to work on non strike days as I think I may be offered some work on Thursday.
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