People in U.K. are - once again - experiencing severe postal workers strikes.
They've been striking 2 to 3 days a week for more than a month and it means at one point there were 30 million item not delivered to their destinations.
Reasons for the strike are reasonable, but the way they've been negotiating and striking is not.
As a result of the strike, the Royal Mail (still not a private company) has lost huge contracts with Amazon and other business.
Even I tried to find an alternative to deliver some very important documents I needed to send, but because it was for a PO Box, I had to pay the £4.95 charged to special delivery, which is the only type of mail they have to deliver on time - otherwise they'd have to pay a fine for failing it.
Other strikes in U.K. also includes rubbish bin collection and the threat of Fire workers slowing down services. And this year we had Tube strikes as well.
What the Worker Unions are failing to see is that money talks to people and business as much as it talks to them.
And not only that. You are usually paying for a service and not getting it.
Majority of people does not have a luxury to strike when things get tough.
And if the job is so hard to bear, the law in U.K. protects you, you can leave and sue your employer because it was hard to work on the conditions they made you work. If they fire you unfairly, you can sue them too. So I really don't sympathize when they argue they are protecting job cuts and pay decrease.
On the postal strike case things get even worse, because with business finding alternatives to the strike (like CityLink, DHL and the like) Royal Mail is making even less money and will face have to cut even more jobs! Now is that something so hard to understand?
Because is no rock science to me!
Update: They have decided to suspend the strike at least until after Xmas. :)
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
3 weeks ago
4 comments:
seu último parágrafo reflete fielmente o que eu penso. tiro no próprio pé, anyone?? perder contrato com a amazon é de lascar, uma das maiores empresas de vendas pelo correio do mundo. eu nunca achei o serviço aqui muito bom. jersey é servida pelo jersey post, que só não é ruim porque o volume é pequeno, mas já ouvi muitas histórias escabrosas sobre o Royal Mail.
e eu nem acho as condições de trabalho desse pessoal tão ruim. mesma coisa pro povo que trabalha no metrô, ganhando acima da média e com mais férias e holidays que o resto. então é questão de pensar se vale a pena emburrar e fazer greve por tão pouco e acabar perdendo tudo.
Putz, perder contrato com a Amazon foi terrível, hein? Posso assinar o comentário da Lolla? rs... Beijos, Fê.
"and the threat of Fireworks slowing down services"
O que é o Fireworks?
Oops Mauro, desculpa aí, hehe mas já mudei pra fire workers. São os bombeiros :)
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