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

[redtiger02]

Move to America, we'll take anybody.

[Soulsurfer]

Revvin, I can assure you that many of my colleagues in my office including myself have been expected to work over our hours without pay. As a result of this one of our managers is being taken to a tribunal. Why would I come back to you with some fed union line? I haven't mentioned anything said by the union, in fact for the record I'm not even in the union. I have simply stated MY experiences of working for Royal Mail. I'm not bleeding my heart out to you, I'm telling it as it is from my eyes and experience. Even if we had agreed to the new routes, we would still be expected to cover other rounds too as we are short staffed and they refuse to take on more people.

I work part time 22.5 hours a week for them and my job is to turn up, bag up and deliver the mail. I'm given 4.5 hours per day to do this. Trouble is like so many of the other part timers, we turn up and the round hasn't even been prepped. We are then expected to sort the mail and redirections before doing our actual job. This means there is no way we are going to finish unless going well over our hours, which they moan about and say we can't claim it as overtime. I can rarely afford to work over my hours as it is let alone for free as I would then be late for my 2nd job.

As I recall I don't believe I accused you or anybody of posting stories from the media.

Back on topic though, 'No' my order wasn't screwed up because of the strike I chose to buy it in store instead.

[Revvin]

There are employment laws against employers doing that but sadly there are no laws against the practices the union's demand and thats expecting to be paid overtime when simply asked to help another department whilst actually working normal contracted hours and it did go on regularly. When the management tried to change that you guys went on strike..again. That seems to be the only course of action you guys know and its no wonder the public lose sympathy for your cause. I've lost no end of mail and so its no surprise to me that the international company my partner works for no longer uses the Royal Mail but opts for a private courier because of the ammount of important mail going missing. As fo the comment about the media, you passed this comment: "I see first hand what goes on within Royal mail, not just what the media tells me"

But to also stay on topic no my IL-2 was not held up by the mail strike because I sensibly opted to buy it locally for a few pounds more but my copy of Supercar Challenge which was suppossed to arrive Friday finally turned up today.

[Soulsurfer]

Originally Posted by Revvin

As fo the comment about the media, you passed this comment: "I see first hand what goes on within Royal mail, not just what the media tells me"

Indeed I did, but there is no accusation there now is there

[Revvin]

Originally Posted by Soulsurfer

Indeed I did, but there is no accusation there now is there

Nice try but too late for you to back pedal, you quoted my post where I referenced people reading the news about the so called 'spanish practices' then went on to say "I see first hand what goes on within Royal mail, not just what the media tells me" Its quite clear what you were implying

Good luck with the tribunal though if its true what the managers were trying to do, as I said you have employment laws on your side to fight that and no real need to strike every time the wind changes.