Posted by Stevo!!
on October 29, 2009, 8:34 pm, in reply to "Royal Mail bosses' scabbing plans exposed"
Out in full proaganda mode. They featured this strike breaker (face out of focus and voice changed because of alleged intimidation) who naturally thought striking will make matters worse. Presumably, less pay for more work will be better for postmen.
The heroic 'scabs' who, up to now, have had to endure the enormous hardship of...er, going without a days pay once every week.
We've had the stories of temporary workers that have undoubtedly been drafted in to break the strike spirited to secret locations - remeniscent of "mini-Wappings", and working in plain clothes. Maybe they could also bring 'Silver Birch' out of retirement or perhaps set up a alternative union against the strike al la the UDM??
Then there was the prat described as a 'councillor and businessman' mounting a 'pro-management' picket against the striking postmen. "I work 8 hours a day", he said. Yeah....presumably not for £9.00 an hour though, mate!
The reporter also cheerfully stated, without providing a shred of evidence, that this dispute had turned "ugly".
So went todays fair and balanced reporting of the postal strike!
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: Royal Mail bosses' scabbing plans exposed
:
: Wednesday 28 October 2009
: by Paul Haste
:
: Post workers have exposed Royal Mail bosses'
: plans to run a scabbing operation on the eve
: of the third national post strike in two
: weeks.
:
: Some 43,000 workers in huge mail centres and
: trucking depots across Britain are set to
: walk out before dawn tomorrow if post
: executives failed to reach an agreement with
: the post workers' union CWU.
:
: But as management were uncovered setting up
: a "scab's charter" by offering to
: smuggle strike-breakers into mail delivery
: offices to work, CWU leaders threatened
: court action to stop Royal Mail exploiting
: unemployed workers as cover for strikers.
:
: A letter sent out by Royal Mail executives
: to some post workers urged them to cross
: picket lines by "transferring to a
: different office or switching shifts.
:
: "You do not have to wear a uniform and
: we can arrange for you to be driven to work
: or we can provide an escort for entering and
: leaving your place of work," the
: letter, entitled Coming to work, stated.
:
: But post bosses, whose refusal to negotiate
: changes to working practices that have led
: to thousands of job losses and effective pay
: cuts with the union has sparked the strikes,
: are facing increased resistance to their
: plans.
:
: Right-to-work campaigners picketed 400
: agency workers at a giant Royal Mail
: warehouse in Dartford, near London, at dawn
: yesterday to encourage them to refuse to
: sort the letters piling up as a result of
: last week's solid national strikes.
:
: Health worker Jim Fagan joined the picket to
: oppose the scab operation because "it
: is the first sign of what we are going to
: see across the public sector - employers
: becoming increasingly more aggressive in
: order to make cuts and to reduce services.
:
: "That's why I think it's important that
: the postal workers make sure they win this
: dispute," he stressed.
:
: Employment agencies such as Manpower have
: been exposed trying to lure unemployed
: workers into "seasonal jobs" paid
: at the paltry £5.80 per hour minimum wage -
: even less than the postal workers' £9 an
: hour average wage.
:
: Royal Mail management has claimed that the
: 30,000 workers will be directly employed,
: but the CWU argues that the agency recruits
: were clearly being taken on as temporary
: staff to do the work of striking workers.
:
: "The Conduct of Employment Agencies
: Regulations 2003 states that 'an employment
: business may not supply a temporary worker
: to a hirer to replace an individual taking
: part in an official strike or any other
: official industrial dispute'," a CWU
: spokesman pointed out.
:
: Morning Star
:
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