Now let's finish the job

[gspot01]

also heard another idea was to set a time on the thursday say 5am and basically whatever your start time is for 24hrs after that, that is when your personal 24hr strike starts. This would mean crippling them over a longer period of time but everyone only doin 24hrs.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

also heard another idea was to set a time on the thursday say 5am and basically whatever your start time is for 24hrs after that, that is when your personal 24hr strike starts. This would mean crippling them over a longer period of time but everyone only doin 24hrs.

Rumours at are place say that next Thursday is the next one and onlt a one dayer. Mind you that started with a manger so could be wrong.

[frankie]

check out todays Daily Mirror pge 4, TBT, looks like rolling strike action is planned.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

check out todays Daily Mirror pge 4, TBT, looks like rolling strike action is planned.

MASS POST WALKOUTS

By Clinton Manning, Business Editor 17/07/2007

UNION leaders will raise the stakes today in the bitter postal dispute by announcing a series of crippling strikes.

Leaders of the Communication Workers Union will sanction several further walkouts by up to 130,000 staff starting next week.

They are also planning "guerilla tactics" with parts of the business striking on different days. The action will be planned to cause maximum disruption as both sides dig in for a lengthy battle.

A source said: "There's a feeling it is time to turn up the heat.

"This will be a programme of action and a clear escalation of the dispute.

"There is a feeling management aren't interested in negotiating and are digging their heels in.

"If that's the case, we want to make it clear they have a fight on their hands."

The action is likely to see a walkout by workers in sorting offices followed a couple of days later by a strike by delivery staff. Collections would then be halted the next day.

The CWU has claimed huge support for the two 24-hour pay strikes called so far.

And they say management have deepened resentment by hiring casual staff to clear the backlog caused by last week's 24-hour stoppage.

The Mirror has learned they are being paid around £5.50 an hour compared with £12 an hour posties earn when working overtime.

Tempers frayed further when the Mirror revealed Royal Mail managers were pocketing up to £40million in bonuses at the height of the dispute. One union source described it as a "red rag to a bull".

Royal Mail insists it can't afford to raise its 2.5 per cent wage offer - worth about £8 a week before tax - as it is losing big chunks of business to rivals.

The union is demanding twice that, saying inflation was 4.8 per cent on April 1 when the wage deal should have been settled.