Post strike dates announced

[efq]

It has been confirmed postal workers will stage two nationwide strikes next week in a bitter row over pay, jobs and working conditions.
About 42,000 mail centre staff and drivers will walk out on October 22 for 24 hours, followed by another 24-hour stoppage on Friday 23 by 78,000 delivery and collection staff.
The industrial action is set to cripple mail deliveries and could cost the UK economy hundreds of millions of pounds.
The Communication Workers Union says it has made a "genuine offer" to avert a national strike.
Union bosses accuse the Royal Mail of rejecting it without proper consideration.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20091015/tuk-post-strike-dates-announced-dba1618.html

[clarissa !!]

i hate strikes so much :{

[PaulMacC]

I was a bit worried my headphones wouldn't come due to this but they came today.

[clarissa !!]

I was a bit worried my headphones wouldn't come due to this but they came today.
you and those blooming headphones haha

yeah i hate strikes cause i like to recieve the things i order in the post (just to keep this on topic)

[Jordy]

Damn the unions. Their demands are completely unreasonable considering Royal Mail is making losses and desperately needs to modernise, and need I say we're still in a recession. Not only can the workers not really afford to strike, they're pretty lucky to be in a job while the rest of the UK suffers redundancies, lack of jobs and pay freezes.

The government should sell off Royal Mail and then auction off Postcodes, then the competing mail delivery services can bid to deliver the mail in certain regions. Earns a bit of money for the government and stops everyone being affected by strikes.

[Ardemax]

saw 6 is coming out on the 23rd lol.. dno why that has anything to do with it

but im annoyed at these strikes, stop asking and begin taking what you have

[Mathew]

My view on this is the same as one with the waste collectors. If they don't like their pay, just get rid? There are thousands of people with no jobs who would love to get some money, who would happily take their jobs.. then there are some who are bringing the whole country to a stand-still so they can get a few extra pounds.

Crazy.

[-:Undertaker:-]

If you all think we have too many strikes as it it now, just wait until the Conservatives gain power - the Unions loathe everything the Conservatives stand for and will not hesitate in striking all the time to undermine the incoming government.

[Seatherny]

Isn't the strike mainly regarding job cuts and not for an increased salary?

[Sammeth.]

Gutted for them when they have to go back to work on the 24th and have double the amount of work to do.

[AgnesIO]

Yes but there is a huge downside..

Windows 7 comes out on the 22nd too! Could cause some delays >:{

[Ardemax]

do they try to get everyone to hate them

[-:Undertaker:-]

do they try to get everyone to hate them

The Unions have always been for themselves and not their members or the country. In the 1970s' and in the 1980s' (although they failed during that decade) they controlled the government which was littered with socialists in its ranks, the Union leaders often had meetings with James Callaghan (the then Labour Prime Minister) and basically told him what to do, hence why that government was eventually thrown out with a vote of no confidence.

The Conservative government in the 1980s then limited Union power and brought the country back to a strong economy, but it does seem that yet again, the out-going Labour government is straddled with debts and at the hands of the Unions again (the Unions fund the Labour party).

[Ardemax]

well peter mandleson will have to privatise it sooner or later

it's fate

[Meree.]

They keep saying there's a postal strike, but it seems to be working fine most of the time.

[efq]

What do you do if your in-charge of the jobs?

You dont wanna work? Right your fired, I got hundreds of thousands of people willing to take this job in a second.

So they are easily replaceable.

[Oleh]

forza 3 comes out on that day :( it will be the 2nd time this month i have recieved something a week late from play

[Fifteen]

Really hope the postal strike doesn't delay my phone coming :(