Royal Mail strike: 'Chaos on the cards' as ballot for strike action announced

[TrueBlueTerrier]

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/pe ... ed-3716601

Letter and delivery parcel “chaos” is on the cards, a union has warned, after they announced they will ballot for strike action from next week.

Trade union Unite will be ballotting 2,400 managers for strike action and industrial action short of a strike between June 6 and June 29 over plans to remove 542 frontline delivery managers alongside a redeployment programme to bring in “worsening” terms and conditions.

The union said the Royal Mail had already cut 450 jobs.

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Our members are the backbone of the Royal Mail, holding the service together while the shareholders seize the profits.

“Royal Mail is awash with cash. There is no need whatsoever for these cuts, or this ill-thought out redeployment programme.

“Unite will oppose these plans every step of the way. Our Royal Mail members are guaranteed Unite’s 100 per cent support in any industrial action they take to get the company off this ruinous path.”

Unite claims that the job cuts are driven by shareholder greed, despite the service returning a record £416 million in profits only months ago – up by 20.9 per cent.

The union also fears that the business is threatening the universal service obligation whereby it must deliver to every household in the UK six days per week.

[2yearpostie]

There wont be any chaos, the pposties will just sort and deliver as normal.

[SpacePhoenix]

It'll be a little ironic when the managers have to conduct code any postie that doesn't cross their picket lines

[Woody Guthrie]

It'll be a little ironic when the managers have to conduct code any postie that doesn't cross their picket lines

In the very unlikely event of their ever being a managers strike there wouldn't be a picket line to cross.

[bigal383]

These lads do t do anything let them cut there jobs and save the money waste of time having them

[clashcityrocker]

Has Sharon Graham ever been in a delivery office?
The backbone of the business? How can you be the backbone of anything if you are a spineless (enter your favourite expletive here)

[Woody Guthrie]

Bawbag

[wazer]

Let's hope they do ,and watch RM run more efficient.They won't go on strike to many arse lickers.

[CharlesG]

Office would run so smoothly without the managers IF they went on strike.
But who do i tell that ive got no time for lapsing??

[priority102]

We had numerous days when we had NO manager, for whatever reason, only the locker person "in charge" but the work all got delivered. No one monitoring yellow dot stops etc, it just shows that if you leave the foot soldiers alone without interference the job will get done!

[billycat]

The two managers in the office i work are hoping royal mail have another round of cuts as they are desperate to leave, they were both relocated to different offices last week.

[SpacePhoenix]

We had numerous days when we had NO manager, for whatever reason, only the locker person "in charge" but the work all got delivered. No one monitoring yellow dot stops etc, it just shows that if you leave the foot soldiers alone without interference the job will get done!

I doubt that a human is involved with monitoring the yellow dots. More likely a computer will be monitoring the data and flagging the relevant ones up to the relevant managers

[Woody Guthrie]

The PDA data is not live tracked by anyone or anything, it would take a huge amount of expensive computing power and would be mostly useless.

The data is simply stored and called upon where an issue is flagged up.

[SpacePhoenix]

The PDA data is not live tracked by anyone or anything, it would take a huge amount of expensive computing power and would be mostly useless.

The data is simply stored and called upon where an issue is flagged up.

Can easily be processed overnight. Ever heard of cloud computing?

[claretandblue]

We had numerous days when we had NO manager, for whatever reason, only the locker person "in charge" but the work all got delivered. No one monitoring yellow dot stops etc, it just shows that if you leave the foot soldiers alone without interference the job will get done!

I doubt that a human is involved with monitoring the yellow dots. More likely a computer will be monitoring the data and flagging the relevant ones up to the relevant managers

Oh yes there is, what do you think Lino's do after we've gone out when they've finished shopping and playing pool ?