115,000 Royal Mail workers go on strike following dispute over pay | 5 News
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► More than 100,000 Royal Mail workers have gone on strike after a row over pay.
It is the first of a four-day strike with further industrial action planned for 31 August as well as 8 and 9 September. They're demanding a rise that comes a little closer to the current rate of inflation.
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Maybe some of the 400 million pounds given away to shareholders over the pandemic could have instead been invested in making the business more efficient and rewarding their essential workers for risking their health and their lives to keep the business running? But nooooo, all profits must be given to the rich when times are good, all losses must be absorbed by the workers when times are hard. That’s just how a modernised company works in Tory Britain
Perfect.
That's how all companies work in any country under any government, innit?
That's just Capitalism and Human nature/greed and it's simply how this money-obsessed world now works 😠🤮
their essential workers strike every year demanding more money and increasing our fees. Sack the lot of them.
@@a_very_british_perspective Doesn't everybody anywhere always demand more money?
80% of my mail is thrown in the bin! Stop the junk mail to start with!!!!
Clueless miss management at its finest within this once great company,
Royal mail wants to destroy the terms and conditions of postal workers to compete with the gig economy, shameful
Do you shop on Amazon then you are supporting the gig economy...
@@norm4242 ,No
what do think your doing here !!! You think this is free and no one’s making money from your comments 😂
What liar that CEO is? U ain't loosing infact u paying out hefty dividends to ur share holders and u r also taking fat bonuses each year
Not arguing, just trying to be informed for like... my knowledge of the world. But wouldn't it be even worse if they didn't pay dividends back out? I mean how can you pay workers if shareholders don't buy shares
@@abekabe678 the point I was trying to make that he is saying they ate loosing £1M a day. No they are not. Because if they are loosing then they can't pay dividends or bonuses for themselves or managers. He can say we are making £1M less profit a day ( although its not true). They always have money for shareholders managers or the top but not for the people who work their a... off to make then that profit.
You know that your pension fund is most likely one of the shareholders?
Lease learn to spell.
Royal mail is "losing" parcels. How? I don't know, but I'm got no sympathy for them after this. Tracked packages going missing, no excuses.
Im a employee and what they media are not sayimg is the pay rise is offeres with many terms and conditions included that would eseentialy make us agency workers
Get a new job then loads of jobs at the minute
Agency workers that are on £13ph/£20 weekends
Glad to learn that most of my suppliers have ceased using RM and moved over to using solely couriers for my orders instead.
Good move
What’s the point of paying for 48 hr or next day with Royal Mail , things being lost or stolen whilst this is going on , being sent to the wrong distribution centres , I have at least 6 items in the post that should have delivered over 2 weeks ago ! certainly will not be using Royal Mail , well certainly not in the near future
How can he stand there and say they're losing 1m a day yet he gave shareholders 400m? Doesn't add up
shareholders are people who invest theeir savings they are the owner of the company risking their money to try to make a profit. We need to sack them all, here comes the amazon.
@@a_very_british_perspective you can't sack shareholders
Unions gave us sick pay, maternity pay and days off. Join one.
Is this going to actually achieve anything other than screwing up everyone's paid for orders?
Again, well said
Don’t give a shit about your paid for orders. It’s about our jobs.
Suffer for a while.
@@ronjenkijns4743 Yes that's the attitude. and why no one supports you bungling cretins. Aldi has some good job opportunities for you once you get fired for antics of no consequence.
@@ronjenkijns4743 What about 'automation'? Drones....self-driving vans to collect from post boxes. Drones collecting from post boxes.
Do we really need 'letters?
I'm surprised royal mail didn't make a kind of tiny printer/wifi fax machine.
When the end user suffers, it screws them up big time...like sellers having to refund their customers after lots of chasing around.
It annoys the buyer. However, we don't see any END to all this. If I was the boss, I'd just sack the lot of them and hire students plus use robotics.
We need 24/7 mail delivery and fresh ideas. How come there's no RM door buzzer?
I understand and support the protest and all... but God damn I'm expecting 3 parcels (for medical purposes) and they are all gonna be delayed for weeks because of this! They already took a long time to arrive in the UK due to being shipped from overseas in the USA. Had little choice but to use Royal Mail otherwise I always go for DPD, they've always been reliable and deliver on schedule.
The only people that it's going to affect is us,the ones who have already paid to have something delivered. So yet again it's a load of empty screeching where the wrong target takes the fall.
@Steven Seagull Sherry did not mention Arnolds name ????
Don't believe in such nonsense, get an education FFS.
I do not understand nor do I support them - they are impacting on MY LIFE with their selfish actions!!!!!
Not happy with the job, fucking find another, there are LOT's out there FFS, don't be lazy.
@@infinitesimotel well said.
Stop buying so much shit then you won’t need to complain about waiting for a parcel. Or you could go to one of those old fashioned places called a shop.
workers in rm are not well paid, but most people are poorly paid these days. also postmen are hardly skilled workers. a robot can do the job and soon will if this 80's style walkout continues. the bosses will never take a cut, and already underbidded you so after they 'give in' and you think you won, the new figure is still well under the budget. all strikes do is hurt the service users who rely on rm to operate businesses and also private users who desperately need a car part so they can get to work, people stuck without a bankcard, children without birthday presents......... yes rm should be a nationalised industry with no shareholders and a level payscale designed to provide a service for citizens, not turn a profit. BUT screw you guys for taking your angst out on end users instead of targeting the top bosses personally. pure cowards
There are also many examples of ridiculous management, and senior decisions that cost huge amounts of money that could be used to fund a decent pay rise. 1 example is at Cambridge 4
bikes with vans attached arrived, as soon as posties saw them they knew they would not work.
4 senior employees turned up and had some publicity photos, stayed a night in a hotel. (not a cheap one) Came to the depot spoke to a couple of prepared stooges and announced this is the future.
After a few trials, they were discarded and now sit rotting in Cambridge car park. Total cost well in excess of 50k.
Solidarity with these workers
Simon Thompson is a liar. They're making millions of pounds worth of profit, but it goes to shareholders, not workers.
He is a very dishonorable man
We stand with our local posties
It will turn to gig economy yet again
They get paid 40% more than their competitors. They’ve refused a 9% increase. This is nothing more than a whine.
Apparently SPECAIL DELIVERY will
Still be delivered??
Nope
Bullshit - we get nothing until the strike is over 😡🤬
Solidarity!!!
the sad thing is that further strike action will result in a yet worse service and more frustrated users seeking to go elsewhere
balls to Amazon too! things arriving dented, don't buy tinned food from them,ive had to throw alot away because of Amazon's incompetence,never buying from them again,glad ive cancelled prime😊
Shouldn’t be buying tin food anyway? You know that tin food is really bad for you?
While food is stored in cans zinc depletes from the food, you need zinc in your body to fight of illnesses and viruses. Tin food was linked to deaths in the Spanish flu.
Amazon have terrible working conditions
Better than the RM service or lack of.
@Steven Seagull I was selling on Amazon. They are really mean to sellers. They change rules on the fly...building you up to fail. They also can take your parcel anywhere
in the town of your customer and say delivered. I?n the warehouse, they damage your inventory. I had to put everything in bags to go to the warehouse.
Amazon let you sell used. You can have excellent customer rating, etc....then they say you have counterfeit items listed or you're not approved.
Then they make sending cases into warehouses complicated....then make just listing items complicated.
Late 2020, they were stopping us sending used items in for sale. Oh! And they make it almost impossible to search for your items even if you put the title and keywords.
Sooo many crap things they've done.
I run a business from home, to many losses recently that I can't afford orders taking 11 days to arrive instead of 3 days
I have been using a different postal service the Last few weeks. What a total let down Royal mail are 😏
Time to stand up to these companies, enough is enough.
Simon Thompson the most hated CEO in Royal Mail history 👏👏
Rico back was worse, he wanted a 5 day week and huge job losses. This guy wants 7 days a week
Suggest everyone who criticises shareholders check how much their pension provider has invested. Most of you benefit from this or would you all be willing to have a smaller pension?
I think we should all work for £5 an hour to keep the wealthy and tory supporters who put them there happy. I also think that all the furlough money that the government printed be paid back only by the people that sat in their garden houses for a year. As for pensions we should stop any self employed from being able to claim a state pension considering they pay peanut N.I. contributions. Make them save for themselves.
*The government is responsible for Royal Mail pensions, they raided the RM Pension fund when the business was privatized*
No, of course not. We want our pension providers to be run as a non profit. We also want to ensure that pensions are safe and guaranteed. For that to happen we need workers paid at or above the rate of inflation. Greedy private investors are the sole reason capitalism is unsustainable
I like many other people in the UK support better pay and working conditions for Postal Workers,Nurses etc but these strikes unfortunately affect the general public who end up with the problems.
very bad reviews on Google 're royal mail, losing parcels ,stealing parcels, delivering parcels to wrong addresses, damaging parcels etc etc etc !
That's an accurate description of Hermes delivery services 😄
@@doberman194 They rebranded to 'Evri' now. Still the same service though unfortunately.
@@sherry356 'Evil'.
It's happened MANY times to us since we moved to Wales from Kent a couple of years ago.🤬
@@karlball42 Whereabouts in Wales? How does it compare to England - any better for you?
From placing my order, it's taken 5 days for an order of mine to arrive into the UK from Australia. 10 days later, and Im still waiting for royal mail to deliver my parcel to my home. Next time, I will pay extra to use couriers
Your order may be held by UK Customs. Hopefully it'll be subject to a surcharge.
@@norbertholstein2604 Nope. I have been advised that its in the UK and arrived at RM Outward MC since the 20th Aug. Since then I keep receiving messages saying that its in transit. And I still waiting....
No offence, but i don't believe that, there would be no reason or sense in RM to keep you waiting. The only "updates" RM send out are when it is going to be delivered.
The RM is a joke, has been for years.
UNTRUSTWORTHY workers - we have had many items 'go missing' and there isn't a whole lot you can do about it - fucking amateurs IMO.
@@karlball42 you get that with cheap labour , pay em peanuts and you get a who cares worker
A dinosaur in further decline, the heyday long gone , sadly the day of the letter and a single market long passed. R.I.P
Never been in a trade union. When I was told i have to join i left the firm.
Good luck to these workera
Not about the pay imo or increase as much it’s about the hiring of staff people just seem to be leaving and not being replaced and then the brunt of that round has to be split up between the postworkers I’ve never been in poverty and I live on my own the pay is good sorry I don’t agree with that I think it’s about what I said previous
Don't know why this came up on my feed. I just don't care. I don't use them. All my deliveries come via courier. No real issue with any strikes.
Nothing here about the facts on the workers side. Typical media tripe
Surely 'the red box' is for letters which Amazon and DPD don't deliver. But a nice little soundbite nonetheless.
Oh no …. Does this mean I won’t get my postal electricity bill? Bummer …
where's my ps5!!???
Tell them to man up and deliver my parcels
I'm still waiting for mine. Disgraceful.
Royal mail should be more honest in it's long term plan employees are struggling with cost of living and the CEO is using this this as what he think s is our weakness to end the strikes and except only his term s
If Royal mail C E O was serious in saving a great company and protect the it's value for Shareholders he would be sat down negotiating with the union s to find a solution .
A deal to end this dispute can be found and he knows it .
So 10000 RM postal workers to lose their jobs. Well done the unions. Turkeys & Christmas comes to mind, they were warned too.
Scare mongering. Some people believe everything they read.
Working class people need a pay rise. Inflation is heartbreaking 🙏
Maybe it is however should we just give them money because we feel sorry for them 😂
man up and give me my package now
Won't notice any difference it takes 9 days to get a letter in normal times 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Losing 365 million a year ?
I've been looking for a job for months. I'll come and work for Royal Mail. I guarantee I won't go on strike. I'd just be grateful to have a bloody job.
God bless you sir, as a business ownedr who relies on the royal mail, i'd be grateful for people like you. Sack em all.
@@a_very_british_perspective Yes, sack all the postie's who worked throughout the pandemic and who work damn hard week in, week out delivering to every single address in the UK, what a very well thought out and encouraging comment 🙄
@@losthope9909 I don't work for royal mail but yeah sack them all there are loads of people that worked threw the pandemic day in day out me being 1 of them there are thousands of people with wages that don't cover the cost of inflation don't see them doin this if the factory workers did this no 1 would eat but no joy for them is there suck it up and get on with it its sh#t times for every1 all down to the colossal f#%k up the government made
Someone that is willing to work - that would be a rarity with the RM.
@@karlball42 An ignorant, rude and misinformed comment, sadly that's not a rarity.
rip my 60 EU
I understand the struggle, it I spend £100 on parcels which will now be delayed.
Strike action like this should be illegal and totally banned!! All this does is inconvenience and insult the very people that actually pay the wages THE PUBLIC!!" Definitely no support from me! All of us would like more money, but we don't take it out on each other!! More pay for nurses, pensioners the disabled the sick the homeless. These people should count themselves lucky to have a full time and secure job!! Personally I would sack the lot of them and then offer them their jobs back as SELF EMPLOYED you work you get paid , you stop or don't work you get nothing!!
Royal Mail don't employ people on full time contracts any longer. You start out with usually a 24 hour contract, they'll pay overtime as and when required but your basic hours remain the same. Hence holiday pay and sick pay are based on a 24 hour week.
As full timers leave, they are replaced by part timers, this means the remaining workers are further hammered each day while the business saves money.
Sometimes it's best to have an understanding before posting uninformed comments.
Out of interest, would you accept a real term pay cut, later starts and finishes and compulsory Sunday working?
@@losthope9909 If you don't like the heat get out of the kitchen. I was self employed worked 7 day week up 18 hour a day . No work no pay. As I said strikes only hurt the public and are a cowardly action.
@@MrChrissy1rHasn't really addressed any of the points I made, but thanks for your brief work history.
I thought they were on strike for the last 2 years 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good one 🤣
just creating more work for themselves
Come on, it's not like it's a hard job - they drive everywhere and burn very few calories doing what they do, bring them to my gym and I will show them what hard work really is.
Royal mail don't need to strike. There are lots of people in the UK that paid less than the royal mail and they manage. The royal mail staff don't use food banks as they get very well paid and have excellent conditions that come with the job. Why don't they do what most people in the UK do and get a second job. I know this as I have worked with the royal mail in the past. The royal mail are are disgrace
What a joke! Useless to the point of being unfit for purpose, it's incredible that they're striking for more cash. Don't they make enough from all the mail and parcels they, er...'lose' every day?
Well put, they should have made enough from my 'missing goods' over the past couple of years alone to pay them all a decent wage!!!
If these people kept striking. Business's will use other companies .
Get back to work you lot get twice as much wages as me and I have to manage .your not doing yourselves any favours in the long run .
"Be on your guard against greed of any kind." - (Jesus of Nazareth the Messiah at Luke 12: 15) -
You work for a private company now chaps, striking will literally cost you your job or the company 🤣
It SHOULD do - cost them their jobs, sack the LOT of them.
One month later and the chickens have come home to rooooooost 🤣
All well and good, strike but do your jobs at the same time or you know, FIND A DIFFERENT JOB WITH BETTER PAY, parasites. Expecting parcels worth over £500 each and they're no where to be seen, sent on the 26th..
Really well said and I totally agree with you.
I need my mail 😡😡
We all do, so WHY do so many fuckwits support them ???? puzzling to me !
Most disgusting staff in the UK. They should have their wages cut, their vans removed, and deliver on foot under the rain. You strike for money you dont deserve and my medical parcel has not arrived, so far delayed for 1 week! Fire them all!
You'd never get your parcel then 🙄
Totally agree with you.
All my posties deliver on foot and in all weathers. You're talking nonsense.
Give them nowt
Give it to the train drivers
Enjoy your late mail 😉
@@evanmacdonald9632 no mail no worries 😃👌🏼
Give them the boot 😁
My Brother sent me out a birthday card and it never came :(
Not at all surprised 😒
I don’t support your strike. They consistently mail that’s not meant for me. I am also on there no junk Mail list yet I get junk mail that fills up my bin. No it’s not like they do a good job anymore. Plenty other companys do a much better job at least when it comes to parcels maybe Royal Mail should lose its Monopoly on Mail then we might start getting better services as it stands now Royal Mail are really bad.