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Postal workers - big vote for strike..

KeyboardJockey said:
Would really work provided that more than 1 in a million did this. Most people are not motivated enough for that.
I also suspect that people living in multiple-rented accomodation would get in shit with their landords. :(
 
torres said:
Tape your letter boxes up and write No scab mail here! on it - force those managers having to cover for the strikers carry around a full bag all day :D

Time better spent visiting picket lines to show support and getting others to do so.
 
torres said:
Tape your letter boxes up and write No scab mail here! on it - force those managers having to cover for the strikers carry around a full bag all day :D
Great idea !! :D
 
mk12 said:
No mail at work yesterday. :D I was getting ready to call the postman a scab as well.

Picket line I visited reported one scab. Managers were trying to deliver some business mail but didn't know what they were doing and the pickets were laughing at them.

The CWU members favoured joint strikes with PCS.

At work there was no post. :)
 
torres said:
I don't think it's wise that you eat meat before coming on here nino.

I don't think it's wise that you continue to come here full stop. You're a smear artist.

Oh and I'm a vegetarian, numbskull. :p
 
Why does the left insist on using such strange and/or often out dated language?

Just looked at the Workers Power report on the strike and while it is good to read reports from around the country things like this just read really strangely to me:

http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=121,1392,0,0,1,0

Pickets were given Workers Power’s Post Strike Bulletin Number 3 and, as we left, we noticed people were reading it

Three other left groups were also there, crowding around the entrance. But despite this we still managed to give out a lot of leaflets and postal workers seemed keen on ours. For example, one worker took a leaflet from everyone but came back to buy our magazine, obviously liking our leaflet the most.

He had come in solidarity also, and he and his wife spoke to me about past strikes with very militant language.

I mean as said it's good to hear the reports, but just don't understand why reports are written using this kinda language. I know it's hardly the be all and end all (and certainly not just WP that does it by any means), but think it makes the left look a bit strange.
 
I keep speaking to my postie and giving him info which he sticks on the notice board where he works. Not that confident. This due to the fact that the last two union reps were apparently sacked when they raised their heads at his depot. As a result no union rep there and little in the way of contact, or info coming from the union. Maybe an isolated case, as it is an isolated depot.

He is looking forward to the action on Saturday as it gives him a weekend off, which is pretty rare.
 
But who the hell in real life speaks to someone and turns to someone else and says "they were just using very militant language".......

I can't believe that that kinda language and the above examples and the whole way that article reads doesn't put people off. It also seems like you're talking about the strikers as if they are some strange other species.
 
cockneyrebel said:
Why does the left insist on using such strange and/or often out dated language?

Just looked at the Workers Power report on the strike and while it is good to read reports from around the country things like this just read really strangely to me:

http://www.workerspower.com/index.php?id=121,1392,0,0,1,0


I mean as said it's good to hear the reports, but just don't understand why reports are written using this kinda language. I know it's hardly the be all and end all (and certainly not just WP that does it by any means), but think it makes the left look a bit strange.

oh dear oh dear! :D but seriously this patronising studentspeak does put off most people
 
cockneyrebel said:
It also seems like you're talking about the strikers as if they are some strange other species.

(but to the leninist they are are they not? they are only capable of developing a trade unin mentality and NEED to be educated surely) oops sorry off thread
 
durruti02 said:
(but to the leninist they are are they not? they are only capable of developing a trade unin mentality and NEED to be educated surely) oops sorry off thread

This Leninist worked as a postie as did his father (not a Leninist).
 
durruti02 said:
i hope you did not patronise your colleagues like the above ones did ;)

CR makes for an interesting read and you could learn something from him, if only you didn't have your head firmly stuck up your arse. :mad:
 
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