O/T. All these strikes

[animallittle3]

Like I said “ all good here” local to me, personal experience

Royal Mail must be first class ( see what I did there ) somewhere along the line Grist .

Since 2013 they have paid out dividends to shareholders worth £1.9bn .

Something's not adding up here is it ?

Seems to me we either have an extremely successful and profitable business

Or

Someone's milking this cow for all its worth until one day the cow drops down dead .

Who do you think will get the blame Gist if and when that happens ?

The greedy workforce perhaps ?

[great_fire]

So I'll try again with this one , if one competitor is superior to another in your opinion then whose fault does that lay with ?

Royal Mail for not modernising.

But striking isn't helping since they won't have the money to modernise.

Militant unions lose jobs.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Royal Mail must be first class ( see what I did there ) somewhere along the line Grist .

Since 2013 they have paid out dividends to shareholders worth £1.9bn .

Something's not adding up here is it ?

Seems to me we either have an extremely successful and profitable business

Or

Someone's milking this cow for all its worth until one day the cow drops down dead .

Who do you think will get the blame Gist if and when that happens ?

The greedy workforce perhaps ?

I suspect the latter of the two choices, with the workforce being like a turkey voting for Christmas

[caytonmiller]

Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson says striking postal workers have been offered an 'enhanced' pay deal of 9% over 18 months, despite the fact that the business is 'losing £1m a day'.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

The cheque’s in the post

[great_fire]

Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson says striking postal workers have been offered an 'enhanced' pay deal of 9% over 18 months, despite the fact that the business is 'losing £1m a day'.

Inflation is going down so that's pretty fair, they could go to 10% though.

Nurses wanting 19% though. They should started at 15% at most.

[caytonmiller]

Nurses
What are their pay demands? The RCN has demanded a 19.2% pay rise. However, Labour and the Conservatives have said such a large pay increase would be "unaffordable".

[caytonmiller]

Bus drivers

What are their pay demands? Unite has said engineers at Go North East had rejected a 10% pay increase, claiming it was a real terms pay cut.

[caytonmiller]

Trains
What are their pay demands? The RMT are asking for a 7% salary increase this year. They have rejected Network Rail's offer of a 5% pay rise this year and a 4% rise next year. The union has also rejected an offer from the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) of an 8% increase over two years with a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies until April 2024. RDG want workers to accept the repurposing or closure of ticket offices and Sunday working as part of the agreement.

[caytonmiller]

Inflation is going down so that's pretty fair, they could go to 10% though.

Nurses wanting 19% though. They should started at 15% at most.

Thing that's annoying. When the pay reviews have given figures over the past the unions are happy with them. Last year they received just over 3% whilst inflation was below that. 2020 they received 1.7%. Again inflation was below this. When the review board published the figures the inflation was below the offer. Ots a bit changing the goal posts to suit imo. Plus they spout the 4% offer. They failed to say the 4%offer is the mid/higher paid nurses. The lower paid staff. Porters, intern, cleaners ect are offered 9.2%...