Caleyjag
Posts: 868
Joined: 22 June 2007
Location: Inverness, Scotland
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Tuesday, Oct 09, 2007 15:27
Right okay, simply put, the union has waved away plans to cut workers pension benefits in exchange for a 6.9% pay increase over two years. Now, I don't know what the benefits are, but to get that high a pay rise doesn't seem that bad. If people are overly concerned with a pension, they'd already have a private fund set up which they could put some of their salary increase into, yes?
Right, good. Next. The Royal Mail want people to work their designated 37 hours and 20 minutes per week. Currently, they are CONTRACTED to work that amount, BUT if they finish their days work (like sorting, then delivering) early, they can claim full pay but take the rest of the day off. The union do not like this.
Sorry, but that's life you morons. No reasonable company contracts its employees to work 37 hours, but lets them off early with full pay! If you finish something early, you go BACK to the sorting office, sort out some more mail, easing potential backlogs or problems THEN you go home. This is what normal people do.
So the union demands more pay for doing what exactly? Less than what the Royal Mail pay them? And the Royal Mail demand what? That it's workers do the time they are contracted to and not skive off the rest of the day because they posted X amount of letters in 3 hours?
Get real. Get back to work. And give me my DC Comics collection #1, my Halloween costume I ordered off the net 3 weeks ago, and erm.. oh yeah, any BILLS THAT MIGHT NEED PAYING THAT I DON'T KNOW ABOUT, you ungrateful, selfish, bunch of tossers.
And so we see the end of Royal Mail basically. This monopoly they have will discontinue, businesses will turn to other carrier services, which in turn will grow larger and larger, until eventually our mail will get delivered by them instead of this lot. And then what will happen? Job losses. Oh dear, gutted.
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