In the light of the postal workers demanding 84 quid a week pay rise what is the solution.?

Question

My suggestion is sack the lot of them employ the unemployed for a reasonable wage and see how the posties like to wait for the benefits they usually fail to deliver.

remember this is a business that ten years ago made billions.

oh by the way posties shouldnt spout the union propaganda and answer honestly 400 quid a week is too much for 34 hour week.

Answer 1

Adam Crozier is understood to have received a bonus of up to £370,000 and further benefits, taking his total package to more than £1 million.
Allan Leighton, the postal group’s chairman, is also expected to have received a bonus of more than £100,000. The bonuses are triggered by quality of service – how many letters arrive within their targeted times – and the financial performance of the group.

The real workers, the ones who get their hands dirty, get bitten by dogs, get their fingers rapped by letter boxes in all weathers are asking for £84

I say give it to them.

Answer 2

Before making such a rash statement you should at first consider why they have reached a stage where they have to consider embarking on industrial action.

It started with the decision by prime minister Thatcher to privatise the Giro Bank and hand it over to the Alliance and Leicester, retired people were not informed that they could have their pension paid into a current account in the A&L and withdraw cash from their local Post Office.

Further interference and cutbacks were made and continued under the governments of Major and Blair resulting in the chaos and disorder that the Post Office staff and customers find themselves in at the present time.

What has been done to what was the British infrastructure e.g. National Health Service, Post Office mail and telephone engineering, British Rail and other public bodies too numerous to mention here is nothing more than a criminal act which has cost the British public dearly and placed billions of pounds of our money in the hands of business fat cats.
And they have the cheek to call this country a democracy!

Answer 3

For the responsible job of postal worker some people may think £400 per week quite fair. After all there are thousands of civil servants sitting in offices in Whitehall and other places shuffling paper being paid a whole lot more. Nowadays whenever people like postal workers ask for a raise the New Labour disinformation machine swings in to action to discredit them. Considering the amount of money Brown and the rest of M.P.'s have awarded themselves what the postal workers are allegedly asking for is very little.

Answer 4

I think unless you are a postie, how do you know that £400 a week is too much for the work they do? and how many people get dole cheques now sent through the post? we should all be striking for higher wages.
The reason the postal business is loosing money is that the government is stopping payments IE pensions etc etc etc being paid out via the post office.

Answer 5

Its not about pay, its about protecting their conditions of service and protecting jobs (no one wants redundancies!). What angers me is people who don't support strikes, it is always a last resort taken by employees who have been kicked around by fat cat managers, they will loose pay whilst on strike and you think this is silly? Your the joke. Its a shame more places don't have strong unions that stand up for employees rights and we wouldn't have so many cut backs and redundancies.

Answer 6

If you were a postal worker, you would feel differently. I say raise the cost of stamps and pay the people.

Answer 7

yes SACK THE LOT they work for the Queen of England hence their name Royal mail. I'm in the British army do you think they would let us ask for a pay rise they would tell us where to stick it. they earn more than enough money the cheeky buggers.

Answer 8

The solution could be...due to the number of houses being built on every peice of spare land increases the amount of homes and businesses needing their services.
So, to be honest, one way is to stop building more and more houses!

Answer 9

let me see you trudge thru the snow in the dark mornings
run away from mad dogs and mad morning people
then you spout off all you like thats after you get the kids to school.............

Answer 10

Fire the lot and employ eastern Europeans at half the cost!