Postal Letter

Isn't The Postal Strike Just Fantastic News For The Some 30,000 Hard Working Unemployed?

If posties don't want to work let others do their jobs. edit>> The hard working unemployed is exactly what it says it is. The hard working people who have been made redundant due to this recession through no fault of their own and want to work. Just think of them as the complete opposite to posties.

Public Comments

1. How can somebody be hard working and unemployed? Not here anymore - You cannot be hardworking and unemployed at the same time. They are complete opposites. I too was unemployed for almost 3 months this year can hardly say I worked hard at the same time. It is like saying I am awake whilst I am sleeping. Hypo - I am being pedantic
2. Confused Hal - I was unemployed for 3 months this year, I am very hard working. Not everyone who is unemployed is unemployed through their own fault. To answer your question, yes, even temporary work would have been great whilst I was unemployed. As it happens I have started my new job a month ago and I absolutely love it.
3. Will you be applying Mr Shambo?
4. Yet again our government-sponsored myth of a Britain humming with the quiet efficiency of a top-drawer industrial nation has been shattered by the latest news. The conflict has exposed the tension between those in work and those out of work. We are a fractured nation - between the haves and have-nots, the whites and the darkies, the muslims and kuffirs, the comprehensives and the public schools, natives and the ethnics, Royalists and the IRA, peole and their MPs, etc. The last one standing switch off the lights, please.
5. I answered a question a few days back from some fool who asked how he could support the striking postal workers? I said he should support them by telling them to get their greedy lazy arses back to work and do the job they are paid for.His response was to send me a ranting email calling me all sorts and calling me ignorant and "fat"!!! I think they should sack them all then give the jobs to the unemployed who would love to have job and be paid as much as they are.
6. if you are unemployed, you can't be hard working, cause you aint got no job innit
7. Hal is confused. That or being pedantic. Of course people can be hard working and unemployed. It just means that they have a good work ethic, but lack a job to carry it out in. To answer the question, it's not good news for the unemployed or for anybody in employment who wants to be treated as a human being.
8. So, Your numerous soap box calls for solidarity do not extend to workers fighting for better conditions? Because if the Royal Mail doesn´t give good service it´s all the fault of the men and women at the very bottom of the organisational chain, the posties themselves? According to this line of thinking they have brought it on themselves. Nothing to do with the managers who earn salaries in excess of a million in an organisation making an operating profit of over 300 million......but still threatening to make 60,000 workers redundant? Nothing to do with cost cutting and increasing benefits for the few at the expense of many? Yeah feck posties and their worried families. Solidarity with Chinese posties is where it´s at. And it´s TRAGIC news for the Unions. We´d all be back working for 1 pound an hour because we´re so "grateful" to be given work if it was left to the likes of you. Serfdom.
9. Speak to any postman and they will tell you why they are going on a nation wide 1 day strike. It is the managers up top that are forcing the postmen to strike. How are 30,000 unemployed going to be trained up to sort post and deliver it? Can they be trusted etc? Thanks to management and theiur cost cutting exercises, rotas and shifts,the once great Royal Mail is a shadow of it's former self. Sir Rowland Hill must be turning in his grave.
10. I believe, they are striking because 30,000 Plus Post Offices are being CLOSED. It's a sign of solidarity, not a lack of wanting to work. Trust me, the USPS in NOT going to be hiring. Yeah pal, it's NOT 30,000 people ... it's 30,000 Post OFFICES!
11. Shite, the Royal Mail is to hire 30,000 temps to deal with the forthcoming postal strikes. You can all wave 'bye bye' to any fecking money you thought you might have been getting in a card for Christmas!
12. Ah their all just lazy oafs! Sack them and hire some real brits to take their place!
13. But they are taking the jobs of other hard working people ,and i do not believe they will want to be known as strike breakers... It is a nasty way to break the union and workers..
14. maybe if some got off their asses and stood up for themselves their jobs wouldn't be sent to other country's and the only option open to the graduates in this country wouldn't be call centres and tesco. good for them standing up to the dictators in this country. as for the 30,000 extra people it won't make one bit of difference. that's if it gets through the courts of course, royal mail are sailing very close to the wind legally.