Originally Posted by Chip-3Door
For the government to listen to them though they must FIRST do the whole "tighten the belt" thing and be in a position where the government can take them seriously.
At the moment the government can just point back at the massive amount of money it sounds like they are wasting on staff being paid to work hours they dont need to etc and say "thats why its not working, its your end the problem lies"
For the management to be taken seriously they have to act seriously.
That's a very fair point... BUT this isn't something that has crept up on the 'management' over night, they knew it was coming years in advance of it happening, and rather than pre-empt it with implimenting change gradualy over a period of time, they are now tring to close the gate after the horse has bolted, and bring thru a whole host of ludicrus changes that to be fair no one would accept in any other job...
Ok you say leave... but what would happen if there WAS a mass exedus of staff? Which I can see happening!! You seem like an inteligent guy, surely you dont believe we turn up in the morning with our bags packed for us and we take a casual stroll thru the streets for a couple of hours. You get to work and there are hundreds and hundreds of boxes full of mail, this requires breaking first into area zones, and then again into rounds and then again into walks... you may have on average a couple of thousand letters to 'sort' before you actually get on the street. If you pay peanuts you get monkies, ok it's not rocket science, but then again it's NOT a job everyone can do.
There has to be give and take on both sides, but to implement that, the posties have to strike to enable them to have the tools to negotiate, if they dont strike, then they will be forced into a corner... And then the Postal system as we know it WILL be Totally fucked.