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@ JBT.
You're right. I should. I have called out others about this.
The fact that Mr Thompson said there would be no further discussions on pay, leads me to this fact. Unless of course he was lying. So, IMO.
And i will keep the overtime going. Right up to the 26th. After that i will be working a 5 day week.
I can't actually remember when the dividend is paid. But don't forget it can be pulled up to the day before.
Now. That would be disastrous.

@ JBT.
I said 4 figures, you said a grand. I might've meant 2 grand.
But posties like a bonus. I, on the other hand prefer consolidation into my pay packet.
That's why i would've voted no. And i would've tried to explain to my workmates why.
Going back to the CWU's original request for in line with inflation. I may have accepted 4.5%, no strings.
That would then lead us to serious discussions about the pathway to change agreement. Not executive action.
But Thompson ain't for turning. On pay or changes.
I do hope i'm wrong though. This overtime is wearing me out.

@ JBT.
It's just a word. But it obviously upsets some people.
And regarding agency staff. I speak as i find. I agree that they are not all useless. But i do think that some may be creative with what they do.
Not a good position for RMG. Especially if it's a prolonged strike.
The overtime is a means to an end. Nothing more. But i'll accept your thanks.
Do you realise that i and the majority of other posties work 5 days out of 6?
I've also heard from one of my manager friends that RMG have had two contracts pulled, because of the possible IA.
I don't take any pleasure out of that, but maybe Mr Thompson should sit up and take notice.

@ telso.
Someone's getting humpy. Visiting the ACP board. There was another poster who did just that. You only make yourself look foolish. But carry on.
Of course you could do the job. Everyone can do it. But within your time. Nah!! Try it.

Well done, with your university, evening classes, extra jobs etc.

But you're are still here, liaising with a drunk, and getting the hump.
I not sure what should "sink in". Maybe i should have gone to university. Then i could understand the elite.

@ wolvesposty.
I wonder if Thompson will turn up for the face to face meeting?
I would p**s my pants if he didn't.
I haven't seen if he's accepted this invitation.
I should ask someone to check workplace. He spends more time on there than in the office.

@ Anger.
When i say the CWU, i of course mean that it would have been put to the members, and probably accepted. I couldn't give you an actual figure for the "bonus" but generally 4 figures does it.
Negotiations on pay started in February. So, six months ago.
I've already said that Thompson had no intention of giving us anything else. If you remember, it was nothing initially.
He'd given all the money away to shareholders and managers.
Pathetic!

@ Merlwood.
"""Do not think the union is acting on your behalf. The top guys will still earn their £100K+ a year. You will get some form of rise I am sure, but not what the union is pushing for, and you will still be down for loss of earnings while on strike."""

We know their salaries. They negotiate for over 100,000 members.
We've already had a pay rise. Forced on us by executive action..
The union are pushing for an in line with inflation pay rise. At the time of request it was 5.5%. It's now 9%. The CWU would have accepted less, or even a one off bonus with the 2%.
Loss of earnings? I have built up a £700 strike fund, with two weeks still to go. That's about 8 days already paid for by RMG. While i think that the strike for pay may be resolved in a short period, the other strike will not. And i'll be saving my pennies courtesy of RMG overtime.

@ telso.
Thanks for reminding everyone that the postie role is unskilled.
I'd like to see you try it for a few weeks. In all sorts of weather.
While you are obviously superior to us mere posties, you still wouldn't be able to do the job.
(This is the point when you claim to have been a postie, as many do).

And while we are on the strike thread. One of the agency staff lost his van yesterday. Had to phone a manager who was at home, and he had to go out and help him find it. I think the poor bloke only had 8 items to deliver. These are the people that RMG are using for the strike days. And the scabs, of course.

@ JBT.
""""Of course why wouldn't they when the job was much easier. earlier finishes, unlimited overtime, covering ghost shifts, job and finish etc etc I was in amongst it and that is facts.""""
Surely, if this still goes on, then the COM's are at fault? All the data is at hand to "see" what posties are doing.
Despite their very generous pay rises since their new roles, and for the next two years already guaranteed, they still cannot manage.
A very sad indictment of where the company is heading.

@ wolvesposty.
Thank you for that.
As an employee you clearly see where this is headed.
You're not alone. A lot of non-union staff have now joined up in my office. This includes "those people" who are now fully on board.
I still hope for a resolution on pay, firstly. And then it may pave the way for t's & c's.

@ Anger.
I pay the CWU to be a negotiating tool for me with RMG.
They could never act in a single persons interest. Unless of course it was a personal issue.
Read the pathway to change agreement.
There are a million things that RMG want. Negotiations with the CWU and then proposals put forward by the union, with a recommendation to accept. They will be satisfied that a best deal has been agreed. Not in this case.
Within that agreement was a stipulation that NO EXECUTIVE ACTION would be undertaken.
Now let me think. Has that agreement been broken within a year, and if so, by who?
The CWU are definitely acting in my best interest. If they said that these ludicrous proposals by Thompson and his cronies should be accepted, i'd be out of the union.
What you mean to say is the CWU is not acting in your best interests, financially. And nor is Thompson.
I decide whether or not i go on strike.

The government will soon be taking back RMG if these strikes go ahead. Funded by you, the taxpayer. How much do you think you'll get per share then?

@ Anger.
In that case you should probably follow up with IMO.
IMO.
In case you didn't know, i am the union. And all my workmates. We decide whether or not to go on strike. Not the people who we pay, to speak on our behalf. They put forward proposals that RMG have or haven't made (in this case), and we decide.

I would not be comfortable holding any shares at this time. Having said that, if Thompson backtracks on his pathetic stance, then the share price will go up.
But he won't, and the price will drop further.
I wonder if after the first day of action, he will assess the amount of "those people" at work, you know the ones, and make a statement prior to the weekend.

@ Anger.
We agree on something.

But i don't remember the CWU saying anything like that.

@ DerekR.
The changes to t's &c's are to do with arrivals in mail centres and then delivery offices.
I haven't seen it mentioned about same day delivery, but later arrivals into our network to connect the following day.
RMG actually mean parcels, which is fine. Letters mean nothing. The arrival of letters make absolutely no difference to RMG's way of thinking. They have to pretend they care about the public, but i work in delivery, and the failure is shocking.
To support their green intentions, letters will arrive later, as will these LAT's that i've mentioned.
They are trying to force the later start times through, to satisfy OFCOM and the public, that your mail will be delivered the following day. Not in my office.
So it doesn't matter when your unmeasured mail gets delivered. The items that "matter" will get delivered by the localised hubs. But in the process, you'll have 100,000 posties on strike.
Pointless.

@ wolvesposty.
"""the other 3.5% is not achievable""".
Unless you live by the RMG code of: If you wear a white collar, you'll get your bonus regardless.

It's called flogging yourselves to death, only to be told that you've missed the set targets.

@ Anger.
If you read my post in context with Maximas's efforts, you'd understand.
If you think that the reason i'm striking is to affect shareholders, you really have no grasp of how we think.

I'll say it again. The pay rise is derisory. 400 million paid to shareholders plus more to come, through dividends and buybacks. Management paid bonuses for NOT achieving targets, including Thompson.
I'll tell you about the COM's pay rises, shall i?
38K last year.
43K this year after role was changed.
46K next year.
49K the following year.

I got that from a manager who has just left the company. And you wonder why i'm going on strike?
And RMG are employing more managers after paying VR to hundreds, thousands?

Yeah. I'm striking because i want to p**s of investors? I suppose my shareholding workmates are as well.

@ Anger.
What do you think would've happened if the CWU had asked for 4.5%?
Rejected!!
Why didn't the RMG negotiators offer "something" in line with inflation?
Because the poxy percentage they forced on us, was already set in stone.
Thompson and his advisors, probably thought that dropping that money into our wages and paying us the backdated amount, would appease everyone.
WRONG!!!!
You do not understand the total disgust every single postie in my office has for him. And that includes the shareholders.

@ Maximas.
Are you suggesting that the CWU shouldn't request further pay rises?
The majority of the recent ones have been multi-year agreements. I would still be on £80 a week if my union didn't negotiate pay rises.
At least your stall has been set out. Anti CWU, anti striker, in fact anti everything if it affects your investment. I get it.
But i am just the kind of person to affect your investment. And i'm not alone.

@ Anger.
""""The business is playing hardball, they always do…..it’s up to the reps to put forward viable options to the business in the interests of the workers. Making one suggestion (which wasn’t even a figure) is pretty poor union representation in my opinion."""

And turning it down is great management, right?

Heigh Ho
Heigh Ho
it's off to strike we go

@ Redceo.
If RMG had agreed to an in line with inflation rise, a percentage would have been set. I have never seen a projected inflation request. So, i think you're posting nonsense.
The management aren't that stupid!
Oh! Hang on a minute.
They didn't agree, CPI is 9% and the real workers are about to go on strike. And the company is about to lose a lot of money.
Maybe, just maybe, they are.