Quote of the day
“Unless there is sufficient evidence of a change in management’s attitude, local agreements being reached and significant progress towards a full and final agreement, then we will have no alternative other than to return to strike action before Christmas.”
- Billy Hayes, the Communication Workers Union general secretary, written to his members as the postal workers threaten to bring chaos to Christmas deliveries with a new wave of strike action next month. The letter goes on to claim that “a strike-free Christmas” was not part of the original peace deal – in apparent contradiction to earlier statements from union leaders promising that millions of present and card deliveries would be unaffected. Last month Brendan Barber, the TUC general-secretary, said that the interim agreement “provides for a period of calm, free of industrial action”. He added: “The delivery of the terms of this agreement means that Royal Mail services will be free of any disruption up to and through the Christmas period.” (full story HERE)
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Well, it wouldn’t be Christmas without strikes, would it?
Even Billy Hayes isn’t that stupid. If he calls a strike, his members are looking at unemployment.
Its a bit of a scare story.
Strikes are almost guaranteed for January, as they always were.
RM will promise whatever it needs to prevent the Xmas strikes, then renege on them later.
Then its strikes all round in the new year.
Poor Silly Billy Hayes looks at his mate Bob Crowe and sees how the tube workers always get what they want within 48 hours and can’t see why he,with twice as many members, can’t get the same result.