this is not really about money, since Thompson took over he has ignored letters, we used to clear our depot of all mail every day. Now no one cares and that's come from the top, as line managers just say concentrate on parcels. 1,000's of letters dont leave our depot every day. NHS 1st class it just doesn't matter to him. Think logically we already have the capability to deliver to every house in the UK. Given that advantage surely Thompson can incorporate parcel deliveries without making 10,000 people redundant. We have been short staffed in our depot for as long as I can remember. It's just really poor management, and the Tories wanting to crush Unions.
Strange in our office we are told to yes prioritise tracked and parcels but also covid kits and hospital letters they have been coming in with the special deliveries.
You don't provoke a strike this close Christmas if you have any intention of keeping the Royal mail in its present form. In my opinion Simon Thompson as been brought in to asset strip this fine institution and leave it broken
He breaks everything he touches. As a taxpayer look into the track n trace he made a mess of. 400 million it was gknna cost after he imtervened it ballloned too over 2.4 billion and your paying for his incompetance.
It's the drive to get everything done online. Like it or not, but we are being pushed into a digital society. Time to start asking those vital questions.
The Royal Mail is not the Royal Mail of the past. It's a private company, sold off by the Tories. They should have been made to rebrand so not to lean on the loyalties of their customers. People think Royal mail... 'proudly British'. Sadly no longer the case, sold off just like the railways, just like steel.
@@andrewpiaf630 don’t really see a problem with going home if the job is done. Doubt that would be the case these days. Either way, they’re getting screwed NOW. No excuses for these companies treating working classes like shit.
@@andrewpiaf630 not many got job and knock thats a lie. A few did but a lot of staff work upto an hr before there shift starts for free. And also work through a paid break daily too because of pressure too do work that cant be done.
I use to work for Royal Mail for ten years and I can fully understand why they're striking.....heavy walks, no breaks ,hostile management etc. Some things never change when you work for RM.
@@Wr5379-g2y I will try to elaborate, most of the postal workers are striking, standing around crying and whinging rather than doing their job. If it is that bad get another job, its not like its hard to replace a post person.
This it the result of ruthless private ownership. The company is failing to meet it's commitments. Nor should it be called "Royal" anymore, it's not a nation asset now, it's private.
I noticed Thompson has went into hiding in the last couple of weeks. Just go Thompson and take the rest of the board with you leave Royal mail to the people who can run the company in the correct way.
Once a brand gets tainted everyone drops it like a hot potato and Simon Thompson's brand is severely tainted, even if an acceptable deal is reached he has zero credibility amongst the majority of the work force. He might as well depart on that golden parachute at this point
Can i just say well done for dedicating your time into creating this video and giving an insight into the current situations within the RM & CWU. It’s a subb from me, happy to support your film making venture keep it up 👏🏼
According to a recent survey, Royal Mail is on a self destruction course with its Carbon Neutral policy regarding electric vehicles. It was estimated that a very few years after they have replaced all their vehicles with electric, losses will be far far more than profits.
I worked for Royal Mail for 43 yrs now retired . The managment dont care about the staff . They want casual , new contract staff , agency staff who wont question anything that is asked of them to do . The chair man only wants to get get a low paid workforce in place so that when the other 51 % of Royal Mail is sold in 2023 he will get a nice bonus before he leaves . And dont forget when they put Royal Mail up for grabs years ago the banks in the city were pre warned about the price of the shares etc , so the general public were never going to be owning any piece of shares . it was a deal cut between government and the city . The postman should torch all of their mail centres a week before the shares go on the market and get their own revenge
Of course, if Royal Mail were no longer around-say-I guess post and all that would be delivered by one of these other companies if that indeed were so. Not that I am saying that it would ever be so, but guessing what the alternatives might be I wonder?
I did it in the 70s ( not the best of time) . Awfully cold and snow filled days leading up to Christmas. Difficult to keep the bottom cold f the heavy bag from getting soaked and no easy shift. I think everybody can see that it is no longer the same postal service. The clues are everywhere: loss of post offices , lack of uniforms (replaced by hiking gear) , damaged and dirty vehicles and the proliferation of other courier/delivery services. Only the postage stamps and the retention of the monarch’s head remain largely untouched. The choice of special, collectors, series remain , but much is changed. Whether you agree with privatization or not, it is strange that the unions behave as if this is the government’s problem and worse that the solution is to oversee the Coronation of King Keir. If it can happen then , it can happen now, but what will actually change/ improve.
And the dogs whilst putting the letters in letter box and approaching gate and property,. Nightmare that, I put leaflets in letter box,bthe dog inside had my fingers for his dinner🤔
@@roberttalbot6397 Sorry to hear about the dogs you encountered. Just to cheer us up a little , my two labradors love postmen. One dog particularly used to accompany him to the door every day, tail wagging like mad. What was strange to me was they did not receive treats (labrador's reason for living), at the end of it all. They just loved the postmen!
Is the Royal Mail under threat? Yes. One stupid idea that was put to the workers is they but their round and run it themselve. As someone else pointed out , the highly praised CEOs are paid to make sure it can be sold off to the lowest bidder.
Royal Mail has gone right down hill which is probably why fewer and fewer people use them now. Some of the competition aren't any better. Still waiting for a parcel that Evri delivered to the wrong address on friday. Their "varified" GPS location isn't even in the right street.
I heard of the new NET Zero of van being changed to EV Van's looking to be costing from 15k to 21k a year on average to run these vans compared to the current petrol vans that average cost 5,5k a year. Nationalising would mean cost in tax payers....could the public afford to run it as the NHS needs thr money.....it would be a fight between nationilised places who gets what....its REALLY hard to say fully without knowing the whole facts
EV vans in the long run save money as to fully charge an electric vehicle costs around £15-£20 and you get about 200 miles for that, for the same milage a petrol van would cost you £50. if it were to be nationalised again it wouldn't be run like a business it would be run more like a service, therefore it wouldn't be forced to make a profit maybe just break even so the prices would go down for everyone
@@EthanVickersFilms ruclips.net/video/m2L9dm85Zm0/видео.html From what this guy was talking about the ev Van's etc About the charging I'm not 100% sure because a business pays higher rates of electricity than a residential...aka a resident may pay between 33p to 45p per kWh but a business pays from something like 70p per kWh or more depending on what DNO they are in
i can only apologise about that, because we're students we only have access to limited kit and at that time i was mostly using my gear, i would've liked to mic'd them up individually but due to reasons outside my control most of the equipment was checked out to visiting school's
All I can say is you could’ve waited till after Christmas now I’m still waiting for November and December‘s parcels to come through. Thanks to you lot I might be lost in the post now what I might put him in their pocket 👎
Hi, sorry about the music but that wasn't added in the edit that was happening during the interview and because we're students we don't have access to alot of kit. ideally i would have liked each person to have their own mic so you wouldn't be able to hear the music as much but due to reasons outside my control we couldn't get more microphones.
Things are that bad that I got paranoid about a parcel being delivered late that I paid priority shipping. Hurry up and get back to work your killing me
i say to any post people if you keep attacking us the temp workers you will lose support from us and we back what you are doing the fault belongs with the tory Goverment and not with the work agencys i say this to you if you go on sick or go on holiday where your boss turn to it us the temp workers to back you and your company that you love.
@@iAM_B4TM4N , shocks Batman, Holly cow, thought you'd get that, but I suppose it's a sign of the times now, cabang! surely you are compromising what a working man is campaigning about, workers rights, pay, conditions etc etc, honour, humanity , solidarity, shocks Batman you of all people, Gotham city will never be the same now. I say get the Batspray on these hoodlums, they really are scabs of society. Maybe, just maybe they may need the support of a working man one day, just glad you wear a mask you muppet.
Stop bullying agency workers. My wife has been Angard 6 years and sick of hearing how 'crap' you think we are. She can do everything as well as any CWU member and the abuse she gets for crossing the pickets is absolutely disgusting. Even been called a slag. If the Union had its way she'd be out on her ear. Why the hell would we support your action when you know full well that the CWU wants to end our employment. You are the main enemy in our eyes. We have the same rights to put our case publically as anyone else so want to use this opportunity to show the public the other 'ugly' side of the CWU that you dont want others to see. Yes Thompson is dreadful, and understand your battle, but that doesn't give you a free pass to abuse other workers that have a legitimate right to work without harassment.
@@usy5475 What part of my post dont you understand? I'm sorry but its (some) of your members that are the problem. We don't really have a problem with 0 hours and that's our choice. She gets loads of work in any case cos shes good at what she does end of. We would never join a picket line as you want us out. Turkeys don't vote for Christmas do they?
@@peterwoad8087 She gets "loads" of work because we are on strike pal. I totally agree there is no place for abuse aimed at anyone but you have to understand the picket line is a place of fiery emotion so when one does cross that line there is a chance for unpleasentries to arise. Also for one second don't try to promote 0 hour contract as a good thing, they are awful 0 sick pay 0 holiday pay poor terms and conditions and 0 hours!
There is no excuse for abuse of people crossing the line, people on the line need to act with integrity. As for the quality of agency staff if I were to make a judgement based on what I see in my office I'd have to give a 3/10 at best, but I appreciate it's only part of a bigger picture. Zero hour contracts are never anything to be happy about unless you want to be looked at as an expendable asset to be worn down to the point of uselessness and then discarded.
@@usy5475 No she was getting a lot of shifts even before the pandemic so way before any strikes on the horizon. There is NO justification whatsoever for abuse for crossing the picket line..you're entitled to be there of course and peacefully explain your cause. Look we would rather have a FT contract of course but there a jobs far worse and we do get holiday pay. I didnt for 1 minute advocate 0 hr but has worked out ok for us and we know of others who enjoy the idea of flexible working. You all seem very quick to make false assumptions about us.
We are going back to the 70s and 80s won’t that make Europe happy last thing by 2030 royal won’t be around strikes and spending money on electric vehicles over 1 year they will spend around £20,000 where petrol vehicles around £5000
on average it costs £15 to fully charge an electric vehicle for about 200 miles. For a petrol vehicle it would cost £56 to fully fill up a tank for the same amount of miles
I used to be a postman left nearly 20 years ago. Best thing I ever did regarding my career. I could see even back then it was a dying profession. Email , people paying their bills on line,Nobody getting Junk mail anymore etc . Of course the post office are going to concentrate on parcels. There is a lot of competition from Amazon etc. Of Course redundancy’s are on the cards. Sad but True.
Keep it up royal mail get Thomson out he out to turn the company into amazon style no pensions no sick pay do as I say not as I do take the money himself turn it back ti the old royal mail
Where are you when all other utilitys were de nationalised ,you the last .. every other denationalisation.have gone through this ,what makes you special? You do know in 3 year mail ( note not Royal) .you be gone any way . Remember miners ,where were you?
What are you talking about? Royal Mail has been de-nationalised. It was privatised almost a decade ago! And what relevance is there to the miners strike? Two completely different scenarios.
The CWU are living in the dark ages. Letters are in structural decline and because of the universal service obligation, that part of the business runs at a massive loss. The only profitable part is GLS and that has to compete with all the other courier companies. The posties terms and conditions are superior to any they would find elsewhere for, let's face it, unskilled work. RM have always capitulated in the past but if RM is to survive, they must not this time. Automation must be brought in and the restrictive practices of the CWU swept away. When this strike is finally over, RM is going to have a very hard job winning the lucrative business contracts back and the CWU really are signing their own death warrant. At this rate, the posties won't have jobs to go back to. The company is worth a third less than it was 8 years ago - that tells you the parlous it is in without the necessary changes to working practices.
@@tok1964 No I'm not Simon Thompson 😂 Anyone with half a brain can see that the volume of letters has massively declined and will continue to do so. The CWU still think RM is a nationalised industry and a monopoly provider, which it isn't. Strikes don't solve anything, particularly in a competitive industry which the parcels business is in. Look at what happened to British Leyland which the luddite unions wrecked. The same will happen to RM if the posties don't face the reality. The only bonus will be that Dave Ward will also then be out of a job!
@@nigelallen6643 I'd like to address one of your points Nigel. You're correct that mail volumes have declined significantly over the last decade as you would expect given advances in electronic communication. It's been a very long time though since letters have made Royal Mail any money outside of high density delivery areas like major cities. Even back when RM was publicly owned and letters were at peak volumes the universal service obligation to deliver 6 days a week to every home in the country was subsidised by profits made by parcels and other services. The difference now is that private investors no longer want to adhere to the universal service as it eats into their margin despite the business overall posting record profits in the previous financial year. As always with investors - they don't want some of the money. They want all of the money...
The Royal Post staff attacking the temp workers are unfair we are there to help you guys out dont think that we are temp we part of you yes i am a temp worker but we work side by side with the perment worker getting our hands dirty with you guys.
@@usy5475 because you not there and your boss call us in but we do back what are doing you will do the same thing if you get call in because you want to live
@@ieuanjones7436 Dont go in 0 hour contracts are horrible and if 11,000 agency workers are going in you are only adding fuel to the fire. We dont hate agency workers but we hate senior management and they are clearly using you . As an agency worker yourself do you support 0 sick pay ? 0 holiday pay? Poor terms and conditions? Unsecure working patterns ?
@@usy5475 I don’t think a 0 contract it is a job and you get pay each week it better then nothing and you lose your freedom if you work in a work agency you will still have your freedom then go in a Jobcentre plus and sign in and at like a slave
The strikes have caused such delays that I have had to refund over £3k so far. These items will arrive so I won't even get compensation from Royal Mail. Did the Union, The posties think about this? Do they care? Even if I did agree with what they are doing, which I don't, is "sticking with the posties" going to pay my mortgage this month? Going to pay my staff? Going to feed my kids? They strike to get better pay and job security, but don't worry about the small business's who you have screwed over and their jobs. Utter joke!
Don't you think you should be asking the board room this question not people? They could have ended this dispute if not weeks ago at least a couple of times already in December but they absolutely refused to budge. Union already accepted they will never get pay rise matching inflation and in fact they are ready to settle for a pay cut but at least they want it back dated to April. Royal mail refuses, they want better job security as well as dropping a few changes that will essential ruin the service you know, Royal Mail again refuses. They want to destroy the union and couldn't care less about your struggles as well as they couldn't care about its own workforce. It is easy to blame union and workers who try to defend what little they have left.
@@blacov89 it is the union and posties that have gone on strike and caused these issues. Hardly anyone has a pay rise, yet alone one matching inflation. Job security? If they keep striking there won't be a job to go back to, how can I trust Royal Mail to deliver my parcels if the workforce just strike, a lot. The changes will save RM not destroy it? The needs of the public have changed a lot, I haven't had a letter in ages, there is this new invention called e-mail..... People no longer need a letter the next day so why waste money providing that service. Can I ask what is the point of striking? It just causes issues for the customers using the service. How is it affecting the bosses and why would they change their mind? They would appear weak if they gave in and run the risk of more strikes in the future if posties dont get their own way. Finally, surely being a postman is a minimum wage job anyway? Its not hard to walk around posting letters or driving delivering parcels is it?
@@dalesmith1911 i have a brilliant idea for you. You said you're out of pocket £3k. You think it is so easy to do the job and allegedly it is decent money as according to you fighting for a pay rise is pointless. Why don't you apply for a job at royal mail and experience it first hand.
@@blacov89 of course its easy to walk around delivering items. Its not going to be decent money as it is a simple job, you don't need training or University to knock on a door. I was delivering newspapers at 15, its not much different than that. Why would I want a job at Royal Mail? I use my skills to make a decent wage. I give myself a pay rise if and when I want one.
@@dalesmith1911 and if your business made profits of £758m in a year, would you reward your staff accordingly? Or would you award yourself and other senior execs bonuses running into hundreds of thousands of pounds, while telling the workers who made those profits that there's nothing left in the pot for them......in fact, they will have to take a pay cut!
With a company that was losing £1m a day back in July, the loses must be much higher. If the strikes continues it's not going to be around for very much longer. If I didn't like a company I've worked or didn't like the pay. I simply changes job
The fact they are loosing money is not the posties fault. Same for the rail workers. They are fighting for their jobs, it’s not so easy to just pack up and get another job.
I imagine they rely on letters really there is no money in parcel delivery anymore. 20 years ago there used to he alot of money in it but the internet retail giants killed it by going with the cheapest couriers. All the couriers have basically been competing for work and delivering more for less.
Am sending all my parcels though yodel now i’d had enough, messed my business around too much. Thats 120k a year not getting off me and not only seller who’s dumped RM over this, keep strikes. I’ll be smiling when here of mass layoffs due lost trade.
Royal Mail Private company, they will get sacked. The service has been broken for a long time. Mate it's not your family. Things change easy easy it's been abused for years.
this is not really about money, since Thompson took over he has ignored letters, we used to clear our depot of all mail every day. Now no one cares and that's come from the top, as line managers just say concentrate on parcels. 1,000's of letters dont leave our depot every day. NHS 1st class it just doesn't matter to him. Think logically we already have the capability to deliver to every house in the UK. Given that advantage surely Thompson can incorporate parcel deliveries without making 10,000 people redundant. We have been short staffed in our depot for as long as I can remember. It's just really poor management, and the Tories wanting to crush Unions.
Strange in our office we are told to yes prioritise tracked and parcels but also covid kits and hospital letters they have been coming in with the special deliveries.
Fair play to to posties. Standing up for there rites.
You don't provoke a strike this close Christmas if you have any intention of keeping the Royal mail in its present form. In my opinion Simon Thompson as been brought in to asset strip this fine institution and leave it broken
He breaks everything he touches. As a taxpayer look into the track n trace he made a mess of. 400 million it was gknna cost after he imtervened it ballloned too over 2.4 billion and your paying for his incompetance.
Most are brought into do just that. That's exactly why they brought in Alan Leighton and Adam Crozier to do exactly the same rhing.
It's the drive to get everything done online. Like it or not, but we are being pushed into a digital society. Time to start asking those vital questions.
The Royal Mail is not the Royal Mail of the past. It's a private company, sold off by the Tories. They should have been made to rebrand so not to lean on the loyalties of their customers. People think Royal mail... 'proudly British'. Sadly no longer the case, sold off just like the railways, just like steel.
@@andrewpiaf630 don’t really see a problem with going home if the job is done. Doubt that would be the case these days. Either way, they’re getting screwed NOW. No excuses for these companies treating working classes like shit.
@@andrewpiaf630 not many got job and knock thats a lie. A few did but a lot of staff work upto an hr before there shift starts for free. And also work through a paid break daily too because of pressure too do work that cant be done.
I use to work for Royal Mail for ten years and I can fully understand why they're striking.....heavy walks, no breaks ,hostile management etc. Some things never change when you work for RM.
I’m very happy with the postmen we have who are very friendly and helpful.Long may they last.
There wont be any ,very soon
I’m aware of that but wanted to show support for the workers.
@@Wr5379-g2y its hard to find one now..... they all stand around crying
@@dalesmith1911 your not making sense elaborate if you can that is
@@Wr5379-g2y I will try to elaborate, most of the postal workers are striking, standing around crying and whinging rather than doing their job.
If it is that bad get another job, its not like its hard to replace a post person.
This it the result of ruthless private ownership. The company is failing to meet it's commitments. Nor should it be called "Royal" anymore, it's not a nation asset now, it's private.
I noticed Thompson has went into hiding in the last couple of weeks. Just go Thompson and take the rest of the board with you leave Royal mail to the people who can run the company in the correct way.
Once a brand gets tainted everyone drops it like a hot potato and Simon Thompson's brand is severely tainted, even if an acceptable deal is reached he has zero credibility amongst the majority of the work force. He might as well depart on that golden parachute at this point
I SUPPORT THE POSTIES✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
I support the postie 👍
Can i just say well done for dedicating your time into creating this video and giving an insight into the current situations within the RM & CWU.
It’s a subb from me, happy to support your film making venture keep it up 👏🏼
Thatcher started all this by privatisation ... Tories not for the working person..
Soladarity to the strikers. Go down fighting it's better then having your pants pulled down
According to a recent survey, Royal Mail is on a self destruction course with its Carbon Neutral policy regarding electric vehicles. It was estimated that a very few years after they have replaced all their vehicles with electric, losses will be far far more than profits.
And the union went along with it
They were always determined to ruin it, money to the fat cats.
Nothing new there
Worked as an agency worker at RM, horrible, only lasted 4 days
good on all the posties !
I worked for Royal Mail for 43 yrs now retired . The managment dont care about the staff . They want casual , new contract staff , agency staff who wont question anything that is asked of them to do . The chair man only wants to get get a low paid workforce in place so that when the other 51 % of Royal Mail is sold in 2023 he will get a nice bonus before he leaves . And dont forget when they put Royal Mail up for grabs years ago the banks in the city were pre warned about the price of the shares etc , so the general public were never going to be owning any piece of shares . it was a deal cut between government and the city . The postman should torch all of their mail centres a week before the shares go on the market and get their own revenge
We don't give up anything.The job needs to be renationalise.
How many workers have free shares ?
Of course, if Royal Mail were no longer around-say-I guess post and all that would be delivered by one of these other companies if that indeed were so.
Not that I am saying that it would ever be so, but guessing what the alternatives might be I wonder?
Royal mail used to employ extra staff over busy Xmas period, not anymore
Yes, thats true they did, I forgot about that
now they just strike.....
I did it in the 70s ( not the best of time) . Awfully cold and snow filled days leading up to Christmas. Difficult to keep the bottom cold f the heavy bag from getting soaked and no easy shift. I think everybody can see that it is no longer the same postal service. The clues are everywhere: loss of post offices , lack of uniforms (replaced by hiking gear) , damaged and dirty vehicles and the proliferation of other courier/delivery services. Only the postage stamps and the retention of the monarch’s head remain largely untouched. The choice of special, collectors, series remain , but much is changed. Whether you agree with privatization or not, it is strange that the unions behave as if this is the government’s problem and worse that the solution is to oversee the Coronation of King Keir. If it can happen then , it can happen now, but what will actually change/ improve.
And the dogs whilst putting the letters in letter box and approaching gate and property,. Nightmare that, I put leaflets in letter box,bthe dog inside had my fingers for his dinner🤔
@@roberttalbot6397 Sorry to hear about the dogs you encountered.
Just to cheer us up a little , my two labradors love postmen. One dog particularly used to accompany him to the door every day, tail wagging like mad. What was strange to me was they did not receive treats (labrador's reason for living), at the end of it all. They just loved the postmen!
have a look at who is the postmaster general now
Hi, the last Postmaster General of the UK was John Eden (Con) 1974
Getting Britain Moving….
Fight for your jobs before your just a parcel delivery service.
Is the Royal Mail under threat? Yes. One stupid idea that was put to the workers is they but their round and run it themselve. As someone else pointed out , the highly praised CEOs are paid to make sure it can be sold off to the lowest bidder.
I am so many shares of Royal Mail. What will happen now .
Loving the drunkard at the end.
Another highly respected union rep
Royal Mail has gone right down hill which is probably why fewer and fewer people use them now. Some of the competition aren't any better. Still waiting for a parcel that Evri delivered to the wrong address on friday. Their "varified" GPS location isn't even in the right street.
Solidarity with the CWU no retreat no surrender.
I heard of the new NET Zero of van being changed to EV Van's looking to be costing from 15k to 21k a year on average to run these vans compared to the current petrol vans that average cost 5,5k a year.
Nationalising would mean cost in tax payers....could the public afford to run it as the NHS needs thr money.....it would be a fight between nationilised places who gets what....its REALLY hard to say fully without knowing the whole facts
EV vans in the long run save money as to fully charge an electric vehicle costs around £15-£20 and you get about 200 miles for that, for the same milage a petrol van would cost you £50. if it were to be nationalised again it wouldn't be run like a business it would be run more like a service, therefore it wouldn't be forced to make a profit maybe just break even so the prices would go down for everyone
@@EthanVickersFilms
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From what this guy was talking about the ev Van's etc
About the charging I'm not 100% sure because a business pays higher rates of electricity than a residential...aka a resident may pay between 33p to 45p per kWh but a business pays from something like 70p per kWh or more depending on what DNO they are in
I want to hear the postie's talking, not some dude singing over them.
It's there story
i can only apologise about that, because we're students we only have access to limited kit and at that time i was mostly using my gear, i would've liked to mic'd them up individually but due to reasons outside my control most of the equipment was checked out to visiting school's
@@EthanVickersFilms no need to apologise. They did stop after a while.
Keep telling these stories. With folks like you we wouldn't hear this.
Dishonesty is dishonesty
Hey strikers, do you send more letters or emails? Do you receive more letters or parcels?
Just a thought.
The package talk the fixed news.The rock will check the slippery death and The mellow style can't boil the presence.
WTH is going on usps is in really bad shape as well
All I can say is you could’ve waited till after Christmas now I’m still waiting for November and December‘s parcels to come through. Thanks to you lot I might be lost in the post now what I might put him in their pocket 👎
Only belated wishes this yrs Xmas cards,. Late😪
It’s under threat if workers keep striking
its under greater threat from the CEO
turn the music down.
Hi, sorry about the music but that wasn't added in the edit that was happening during the interview and because we're students we don't have access to alot of kit. ideally i would have liked each person to have their own mic so you wouldn't be able to hear the music as much but due to reasons outside my control we couldn't get more microphones.
If they are that bothered, do a staff buy out. Otherwise suck it up at least you have a job.
they are sucking it up but they're still not getting paid enough
Things are that bad that I got paranoid about a parcel being delivered late that I paid priority shipping. Hurry up and get back to work your killing me
No.
Selfish individual
@@grantlivingstone147 who me?
Down stream access killed it
It’s a French company now say no more
i say to any post people if you keep attacking us the temp workers you will lose support from us and we back what you are doing the fault belongs with the tory Goverment and not with the work agencys i say this to you if you go on sick or go on holiday where your boss turn to it us the temp workers to back you and your company that you love.
Scabs
AND WHOS CROSSING THE PICKET LINE AGENCY AND TEMPS
@@Wr5379-g2y why would agency and temps need togo on strike?
@@iAM_B4TM4N , shocks Batman, Holly cow, thought you'd get that, but I suppose it's a sign of the times now, cabang! surely you are compromising what a working man is campaigning about, workers rights, pay, conditions etc etc, honour, humanity , solidarity, shocks Batman you of all people, Gotham city will never be the same now.
I say get the Batspray on these hoodlums, they really are scabs of society.
Maybe, just maybe they may need the support of a working man one day, just glad you wear a mask you muppet.
Jones the SCAB, I'm alright Jack, couldn't give a fuck about you character, shameless, that's the nature of agency workers.
CWU have embodied Spanish Practices for years and now it's catching up with them 🤷♂️
Stop bullying agency workers. My wife has been Angard 6 years and sick of hearing how 'crap' you think we are. She can do everything as well as any CWU member and the abuse she gets for crossing the pickets is absolutely disgusting. Even been called a slag. If the Union had its way she'd be out on her ear. Why the hell would we support your action when you know full well that the CWU wants to end our employment. You are the main enemy in our eyes. We have the same rights to put our case publically as anyone else so want to use this opportunity to show the public the other 'ugly' side of the CWU that you dont want others to see. Yes Thompson is dreadful, and understand your battle, but that doesn't give you a free pass to abuse other workers that have a legitimate right to work without harassment.
0 hour contracts are awful. You should join us on the picket lines
@@usy5475 What part of my post dont you understand? I'm sorry but its (some) of your members that are the problem. We don't really have a problem with 0 hours and that's our choice. She gets loads of work in any case cos shes good at what she does end of. We would never join a picket line as you want us out. Turkeys don't vote for Christmas do they?
@@peterwoad8087
She gets "loads" of work because we are on strike pal.
I totally agree there is no place for abuse aimed at anyone but you have to understand the picket line is a place of fiery emotion so when one does cross that line there is a chance for unpleasentries to arise. Also for one second don't try to promote 0 hour contract as a good thing, they are awful 0 sick pay 0 holiday pay poor terms and conditions and 0 hours!
There is no excuse for abuse of people crossing the line, people on the line need to act with integrity. As for the quality of agency staff if I were to make a judgement based on what I see in my office I'd have to give a 3/10 at best, but I appreciate it's only part of a bigger picture. Zero hour contracts are never anything to be happy about unless you want to be looked at as an expendable asset to be worn down to the point of uselessness and then discarded.
@@usy5475 No she was getting a lot of shifts even before the pandemic so way before any strikes on the horizon. There is NO justification whatsoever for abuse for crossing the picket line..you're entitled to be there of course and peacefully explain your cause. Look we would rather have a FT contract of course but there a jobs far worse and we do get holiday pay. I didnt for 1 minute advocate 0 hr but has worked out ok for us and we know of others who enjoy the idea of flexible working. You all seem very quick to make false assumptions about us.
I couldn't give a crap about RM. It's a foreign owned company, these workers need to wake up and realise that.
Unfortunately we are not going to win, sheep's are just following the shepherd to the slaughter House, but good luck to them!
We are going back to the 70s and 80s won’t that make Europe happy last thing by 2030 royal won’t be around strikes and spending money on electric vehicles over 1 year they will spend around £20,000 where petrol vehicles around £5000
on average it costs £15 to fully charge an electric vehicle for about 200 miles.
For a petrol vehicle it would cost £56 to fully fill up a tank for the same amount of miles
I used to be a postman left nearly 20 years ago. Best thing I ever did regarding my career. I could see even back then it was a dying profession. Email , people paying their bills on line,Nobody getting Junk mail anymore etc . Of course the post office are going to concentrate on parcels. There is a lot of competition from Amazon etc. Of Course redundancy’s are on the cards. Sad but True.
Everyone is under threat from this government
Keep it up royal mail get Thomson out he out to turn the company into amazon style no pensions no sick pay do as I say not as I do take the money himself turn it back ti the old royal mail
Where are you when all other utilitys were de nationalised ,you the last .. every other denationalisation.have gone through this ,what makes you special? You do know in 3 year mail ( note not Royal) .you be gone any way . Remember miners ,where were you?
What are you talking about? Royal Mail has been de-nationalised. It was privatised almost a decade ago! And what relevance is there to the miners strike? Two completely different scenarios.
The CWU are living in the dark ages. Letters are in structural decline and because of the universal service obligation, that part of the business runs at a massive loss. The only profitable part is GLS and that has to compete with all the other courier companies. The posties terms and conditions are superior to any they would find elsewhere for, let's face it, unskilled work. RM have always capitulated in the past but if RM is to survive, they must not this time. Automation must be brought in and the restrictive practices of the CWU swept away. When this strike is finally over, RM is going to have a very hard job winning the lucrative business contracts back and the CWU really are signing their own death warrant. At this rate, the posties won't have jobs to go back to. The company is worth a third less than it was 8 years ago - that tells you the parlous it is in without the necessary changes to working practices.
Alright Simon, we know it’s you 😉
@@tok1964 No I'm not Simon Thompson 😂 Anyone with half a brain can see that the volume of letters has massively declined and will continue to do so. The CWU still think RM is a nationalised industry and a monopoly provider, which it isn't. Strikes don't solve anything, particularly in a competitive industry which the parcels business is in. Look at what happened to British Leyland which the luddite unions wrecked. The same will happen to RM if the posties don't face the reality. The only bonus will be that Dave Ward will also then be out of a job!
@@nigelallen6643 I'd like to address one of your points Nigel. You're correct that mail volumes have declined significantly over the last decade as you would expect given advances in electronic communication. It's been a very long time though since letters have made Royal Mail any money outside of high density delivery areas like major cities. Even back when RM was publicly owned and letters were at peak volumes the universal service obligation to deliver 6 days a week to every home in the country was subsidised by profits made by parcels and other services. The difference now is that private investors no longer want to adhere to the universal service as it eats into their margin despite the business overall posting record profits in the previous financial year. As always with investors - they don't want some of the money. They want all of the money...
The Royal Post staff attacking the temp workers are unfair we are there to help you guys out dont think that we are temp we part of you yes i am a temp worker but we work side by side with the perment worker getting our hands dirty with you guys.
If we are truly side by side why have 11,000 agency staff crossed picket lines ?
@@usy5475 because you not there and your boss call us in but we do back what are doing you will do the same thing if you get call in because you want to live
@@ieuanjones7436
Dont go in
0 hour contracts are horrible and if 11,000 agency workers are going in you are only adding fuel to the fire. We dont hate agency workers but we hate senior management and they are clearly using you . As an agency worker yourself do you support 0 sick pay ? 0 holiday pay? Poor terms and conditions? Unsecure working patterns ?
@@usy5475 I don’t think a 0 contract it is a job and you get pay each week it better then nothing and you lose your freedom if you work in a work agency you will still have your freedom then go in a Jobcentre plus and sign in and at like a slave
Your also crossing the picket line
The strikes have caused such delays that I have had to refund over £3k so far. These items will arrive so I won't even get compensation from Royal Mail.
Did the Union, The posties think about this? Do they care?
Even if I did agree with what they are doing, which I don't, is "sticking with the posties" going to pay my mortgage this month? Going to pay my staff? Going to feed my kids?
They strike to get better pay and job security, but don't worry about the small business's who you have screwed over and their jobs. Utter joke!
Don't you think you should be asking the board room this question not people? They could have ended this dispute if not weeks ago at least a couple of times already in December but they absolutely refused to budge. Union already accepted they will never get pay rise matching inflation and in fact they are ready to settle for a pay cut but at least they want it back dated to April. Royal mail refuses, they want better job security as well as dropping a few changes that will essential ruin the service you know, Royal Mail again refuses. They want to destroy the union and couldn't care less about your struggles as well as they couldn't care about its own workforce. It is easy to blame union and workers who try to defend what little they have left.
@@blacov89 it is the union and posties that have gone on strike and caused these issues.
Hardly anyone has a pay rise, yet alone one matching inflation. Job security? If they keep striking there won't be a job to go back to, how can I trust Royal Mail to deliver my parcels if the workforce just strike, a lot.
The changes will save RM not destroy it? The needs of the public have changed a lot, I haven't had a letter in ages, there is this new invention called e-mail..... People no longer need a letter the next day so why waste money providing that service.
Can I ask what is the point of striking? It just causes issues for the customers using the service. How is it affecting the bosses and why would they change their mind? They would appear weak if they gave in and run the risk of more strikes in the future if posties dont get their own way.
Finally, surely being a postman is a minimum wage job anyway? Its not hard to walk around posting letters or driving delivering parcels is it?
@@dalesmith1911 i have a brilliant idea for you. You said you're out of pocket £3k. You think it is so easy to do the job and allegedly it is decent money as according to you fighting for a pay rise is pointless. Why don't you apply for a job at royal mail and experience it first hand.
@@blacov89 of course its easy to walk around delivering items. Its not going to be decent money as it is a simple job, you don't need training or University to knock on a door. I was delivering newspapers at 15, its not much different than that.
Why would I want a job at Royal Mail? I use my skills to make a decent wage. I give myself a pay rise if and when I want one.
@@dalesmith1911 and if your business made profits of £758m in a year, would you reward your staff accordingly? Or would you award yourself and other senior execs bonuses running into hundreds of thousands of pounds, while telling the workers who made those profits that there's nothing left in the pot for them......in fact, they will have to take a pay cut!
With a company that was losing £1m a day back in July, the loses must be much higher. If the strikes continues it's not going to be around for very much longer. If I didn't like a company I've worked or didn't like the pay. I simply changes job
The fact they are loosing money is not the posties fault. Same for the rail workers. They are fighting for their jobs, it’s not so easy to just pack up and get another job.
losiug a million a day of course give the C E O a big fat bonus
They made record profits not record losses, so someone is telling porky’s
True if one person not happy get a new job but when its 90% of workforce something wrong...
I imagine they rely on letters really there is no money in parcel delivery anymore. 20 years ago there used to he alot of money in it but the internet retail giants killed it by going with the cheapest couriers. All the couriers have basically been competing for work and delivering more for less.
Professional strikers more like
Am sending all my parcels though yodel now i’d had enough, messed my business around too much. Thats 120k a year not getting off me and not only seller who’s dumped RM over this, keep strikes. I’ll be smiling when here of mass layoffs due lost trade.
Yodel! Lol. You'll be back, they always come back.
Royal Mail Private company, they will get sacked. The service has been broken for a long time. Mate it's not your family. Things change easy easy it's been abused for years.
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