So how many of you are screwed because of Royal Mail staff taking ANOTHER "strike"?

[Soulsurfer]

Originally Posted by Revvin

Postal workers need to get out into the real world not that union led little world you live in which has led you into this mess. Anyone who reads the news will have read of the work practices going on in sorting offices up and down the country where staff who complete their tasks and have nothing to do will sit around idle and refuse to help other departments or if they do they expect overtime for it while they are still working their actual contracted hours! thats just one of many so called 'spanish practices' that has brought the Royal Mail to near collapse. I'd be happy to choose my own postal provider just as I do with my electricity or gas and let the Royal Mail compete on service. This is 2009 not 1970, open your eyes and see your union chiefs living the good life off your backs while their actions slowly help destroy the mail service.

So I'm expected to work over my contracted hours without pay am I just because my managers tell me I have to? Also due to staff shortages not only do we have to complete our own delivery round, we are also expected to do part of another round aswell. All this without pay if we exceed our contracted hours (which happens very often). I do live in the real world and I see first hand what goes on within Royal mail, not just what the media tells me. My eyes are open thank you, I see and know what I know from being a Royal mail employee. Your right though, screw the union, we should work for free because we are told to. Thank you for opening my eyes.