Royal Mail Next To Strike?

[FatticusInch]

https://news.sky.com/story/royal-mail-pay-row-heads-to-ballot-that-could-lead-to-strikes-later-this-summer-12637853

Rail, law and now mail?
Who next?
The government really need to start to up their game and tackle the amount of discontent before it turns really bad!

[Hopkirk]

If Royal Mail go on strike, will anyone notice?

[gulliver1]

Hopkirk lol.

[gingejbee]

I'll hardly notice...we're down to two deliveries a week, if we're lucky.

[Hopkirk]

Think of all that junk mail you wouldn't get.

[bobbinwales]

What should the government do fatticus and how much will it cost and who'll pay for it

[FatticusInch]

I agree, people won’t notice much.
It is however the start of a slippery slope and you wonder which group of workers will be next to jump on the strike wagon.
Wages aren’t keeping up with inflation and with each government furore the natives are getting restless and somewhat irked.

[FatticusInch]

The Sky News Economics correspondent has a decent handle on it.

Imagine, if you can, you are in the chancellor's shoes.
Your instincts are to cut taxes and reduce public spending yet pretty much every decision you've taken in office has involved doing precisely the opposite.
Worse: in recent months even when you have forked out serious sums to support workers, much of that money seems to have gone unnoticed.
This year alone you have unveiled two genuinely generous packages which will cushion much of the blow from higher energy bills and the rising cost of living, yet the prime minister and many of your cabinet colleagues seem to think you need to do more.
And things are about to get even stickier, for even after the rail strikes this week, the summer's trickiest decision is looming: how to navigate the demands from millions of public sector workers for significant pay rises.
They have a point: public sector workers have seen their pay fall in real terms by 4.3% since 2010 (compared with a 4.3% rise for their private sector counterparts).
Moreover, while it could be argued for most of the past few decades that public sector workers have considerably higher levels of pay (levels - not just annual changes in pay), these days that's not so clear.
While headline pay per hour for public sector workers is still about 7% higher than private sector workers, when you adjust for differences in working patterns and skill levels (it turns out that on average skill levels in the public sector are higher), actually public sector workers are now earning slightly less than their private sector counterparts - for the first time in at least a generation.

Time for the government to get on and govern instead of having to firefight Johnson’s misdeeds on a weekly if not daily basis.

[ynnafymmi]

Huh,the government is loving it Fatty.The more strikes the more likely *** off voters will vote for the Tories.It worked for Thatcher.

[douglas9401]

They're only pushing the envelope.

[Zacs-Master]

And stamping their authority on the situation.

[FatticusInch]

ynnafymmi
//Huh,the government is loving it Fatty.The more strikes the more likely *** off voters will vote for the Tories.It worked for Thatcher.//

Thing is, Thatcher had the nouse and gumption for the job and if nothing else had an air of authority about her, nor was her government mired in controversy on a weekly basis.
Johnson has carried the bumbling oaf routine he had as mayor into Number 10 and defacated throughout the corridors whilst in there, he has none of the gravitas nor wherewithal that she had.
She wouldn’t have let such an imbecile within 20 miles of Westminster.

[ynnafymmi]

@17.01.I know that,Fatty,you know that,but do the commuters who are having their lives disrupted know that?

[Gromit]

In the 1970s under Heath and Callaghan we had double digit inflation and that resulted in lots of strikes.

ONS said the retail price index rose 11.7% in May. The BOE warned that inflation will reach 11% later this year.

With double digit inflation back, so are the strikes.

[Gromit]

Looking at the example of Heath and Callaghan, the party in power gets blamed for the high inflation and the resulting industrial action. Heath was dumped in 74, and Callaghan in 79. Both had low majorities). Thatcher also oversaw high inflation in her first term, but she had a high majority and the Falklands factor.

Strikes will damage the Government, not the opposition, but Boris has a big majority, so might survive at an election. However, Johnson’s big majority is built on shaky foundations. Very many of the red wall Conservative MPs have tiny majorities and will lose in 2024.

[smurfchops]

Coincidence . I spoke to a postal worker today and he said they would likely be next to strike.