Posted in CWU, Capitalism, Royal Mail, tagged Adam Crozier, Boardroom Salaries, Hypocrisy, Double Standards, Executive Pay on November 1, 2007 | No Comments »
Adam Crozier has recently received his perfomance related bonus of £469′000 on top of his £629′000 basic pay not to mention his £158′000 pension and benefits.
I won’t even go into the fact that this man is earning a basic wage that is 39 times greater than his staff, but the very fact that he is [...]
Posted in CWU, Postal Strike, Unionism on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
The CWU have decided to ratify an agreement between the management and executive which will see a 6.9% increase in basic pay over 18 months with an increased involvement of the CWU in all structural change.
It would seem that the strikes have had some positive effect for the staff, although it can’t be termed as [...]
Posted in Apathy, CWU, Capitilism, Disillusion, Frustration, Labour, Marxism, Political, Postal Strike, Postcomm, Privatisation, Royal Mail, Society, Unionism, rant on October 9, 2007 | 11 Comments »
“What do you think this is? A liberal democracy or something, you posties are forgetting one vital thing, you’re freedom is not an option and you don’t get to choose your own working conditions you should plug away at the job until you retire and don’t get a pension, you do as we say when we say [...]
Posted in CWU, NUS, Postal Strike, Royal Mail, Unionism on October 5, 2007 | No Comments »
The 48 hour strike goes on; though my post arrived at 6.30am today; guess someone didn’t want to join in, I can hardly blame them, I didn’t for the majority of the strikes either, its difficult to walk out on your job knowing that you are losing pay and there is something ingrained which tells [...]
Posted in CWU, Postal Strike, Public Services, Royal Mail, Unionism on September 21, 2007 | No Comments »
The talks between Royal Mail and the CWU broke down over a week ago and though an extended period of calm was agreed it was clear that the Union would be announcing a new program of strikes unless there was a radical shift in attitude by the management.
Royal Mail has forged ahead with the implementation [...]
Posted in CWU, Postal Strike, Public Services, Royal Mail on August 9, 2007 | No Comments »
All Postal Strikes have been suspended following a joint meeting between Allan Leighton, Adam Crozier, Billy Hayes and Dave Ward.
The agreement will last until the 4th of September, the period of time between now and then will include.
- that both parties commit to talks on all the issues between them, hosted and facilitated by the [...]
Posted in CWU, Industry, Postal Strike, Public Services, Royal Mail, Unionism on July 19, 2007 | No Comments »
having now determined which side of this I’m going to come down on I thought maybe I should continue with the inside commentary.
The CWU has escalated strike action with a rolling programme of strikes that will last a full two weeks, the strikes will be called for different elements of the company at different times [...]
Posted in CWU, Personal, Postal Strike, Royal Mail on July 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I have reached my final decision on the strike issue and here it is.
I’ll work through them.
Having now worked through a strike and supported a strike I know what I feel comfortable with and I know what I owe to my office, the personal situation has to take precedence over the idealogical situation here
My apologies [...]
Posted in CWU, Industry, Marxism, Media, Public Services, Royal Mail, Society, Unionism on July 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Yesterdays strike was supported by around 95% of the Royal Mail workforce, those are figures from the CWU, I’d like to get some less vested figures but it would seem that none are available, in fact over the past few days neither the Times nor the Independent has even given it a mention.
I have looked [...]
