Now I do care about people and the livelihoods but imo striking isnt the answer, i'm firmly of the opinion that if my employer wants to alter my hours or place of work, then they can, when all said and done i'm working for them, if I don't like it then, I have to go and work elsewhere.
Not everyone has the skill set to be able to have their pick of jobs
This is just something people in my industry have to put up with, our unions are cack and to be honest always have been and therefore its up to us employees to chose "is this the employer I want to work for?".
A union is only as strong as it's members, your attitude if followed by all your collegues is the reason you have a cack union.
If I had my way i'd have posties working through the evening delivering because the amount of times i'm at work when they wanna deliver my tickets is a joke.
I'd love to see your face being woken at 4 AM for a recorded delivery! lol
As I said, I don't like emplyers walking all over their employees, but imagine the mess the country would be in if people in my line of work went on strike. We don't because we know it isn't fair to those people who rely on us.
So you wouldn't consider industrial action of any kind should you feel stringly enough aggrieved because it wouldn't be fair to the general public? Sorry Paul that's bo11ocks.
The Royal Mail is already struggling to break into this century, its only a matter of time before it goes under , and the current crisis is depening its situation and there is a real possiblity that the company could go bust and "everyone" will be out of work, the company is trying to streamline its operation and make it profitable so it can survive and grow into the future.
That maybe the case, but without getting into a debate on the "unfair restrictions" on Royal mail is a side issue to the reason for strike action. If it was purely about pay and an unreasonable increase request I would agree with you but it isn't. Would you agree now to work 5 years loger than you planned for a reduced pension? I doubt it, but you have already said, they can just get another job if they don't like it, even if they are approaching 60, it's easy.
I'm really of the opinion that striking is the last bastion of 70s britain, it serves no purpose except putting out the general public, and how much is it costing the posties in wages? Does it weigh up that they'll lose 2 weeks wages for the sake of coming in 15 mins later each day?
If the working classes would have had the same view 100 years ago, you would still be doing a 60 hour week with a weeks holiday if you were lucky instead of holding all the privilages your position does.
I doubt it does.