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18th October 2009, 2:47pm
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#1 | | the quintessential outlaw
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| Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
Guardian Article
Looks like the postal strike is taking a nasty turn now as the Royal Mail announce the hiring of 30,000 scabs to try and break the strike.
Not a surprise but it's pretty sickening to see Mandleson, of the Labour party, voicing his rage at the postal workers and supporting this potentially illegal move on the part of royal mail.
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18th October 2009, 3:15pm
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#2 | | I'm A Lumberjack
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
Royal Mail would be taking on 15,000 temp staff soon anyway in time for Christmas. They are just taking on more staff and sooner to deal with the backlog which will be left after the strike. | |
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18th October 2009, 3:30pm
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#3 | | Hammer Smashed Face
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
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Originally Posted by TinTin  Royal Mail would be taking on 15,000 temp staff soon anyway in time for Christmas. They are just taking on more staff and sooner to deal with the backlog which will be left after the strike. | Not only that, Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. | |
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18th October 2009, 3:36pm
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#4 | | ShakingTheDisease SuperMod
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
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Originally Posted by supernothing potentially illegal | how so?
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18th October 2009, 5:01pm
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#5 | | Kingpun
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
Good, cunts.
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18th October 2009, 6:17pm
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#6 | | Registered User
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
I'm all for them trying to do something. People have lost enough faith in them as it is.
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18th October 2009, 6:36pm
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#7 | | Drop dead gorgeous
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
can anyone explain to me how these strikes makes ANY sense?
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18th October 2009, 6:38pm
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#8 | | terrifying snail of metal
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
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Originally Posted by djtoast how so? | you can't fill the roles of striking employees with temps, though i guess theyre getting round it as they always hire more staff this time of year
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18th October 2009, 7:17pm
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#9 | | The man from Del Monte
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
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18th October 2009, 7:19pm
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#10 | | Auch emo für Sie!
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
fed up with the CWU
royal mail forever
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18th October 2009, 7:41pm
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#11 | | Caissa's DeathAngel
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
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Originally Posted by ladysavage you can't fill the roles of striking employees with temps, though i guess theyre getting round it as they always hire more staff this time of year | Aye, from what I've read it's quite contentious for it. Personally I'm not bothered as I stand to more mail than normal in the next couple of weeks so I rather like the idea of there being people to cover the slack! | |
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19th October 2009, 1:01am
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#12 | | Purple Haze
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
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Originally Posted by Runt can anyone explain to me how these strikes makes ANY sense? | RM are attempting to 'modernise' - a word that makes death by a thousand cuts sound like a valiant and necessary attempt to move into the present and prepare for the future. CWU wished to negotiate on matters of workload, pay, guaranteed hours. In short, they are interested in protecting members from getting shafted by RM's drive towards privatisation and casualisation. RM don't want to negotiate, hence the strike.
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19th October 2009, 7:10am
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#13 | | Bring the heid o' charlie Editor
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
fuck postmen
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19th October 2009, 7:36am
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#14 | | I hate your band SuperMod
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
I’ve got no faith in the Royal Mail any more. These strikes have fucked it for good. From the best mail service in the world to a complete joke in the space of a year. The union have managed to ruin the company, the bloody idiots.
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19th October 2009, 7:51am
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#15 | | Drop dead gorgeous
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| Re: Royal Mail to hire 30,000 scabs
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Originally Posted by metallideth RM are attempting to 'modernise' - a word that makes death by a thousand cuts sound like a valiant and necessary attempt to move into the present and prepare for the future. CWU wished to negotiate on matters of workload, pay, guaranteed hours. In short, they are interested in protecting members from getting shafted by RM's drive towards privatisation and casualisation. RM don't want to negotiate, hence the strike. | If the Royal Mail can't afford to keep running the way it is and modernisation is NEEDED then I really can't see what this strike hopes to achieve "we're demanding something you cannot give us" - what a waste of time. I'm sure there are better ways to negotiate in this situation....or better people to be aiming their frustrations at than the people they work for, like maybe the people who opened it up for competition in the first place and then put caps on postage costs.
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