Royal Mail Wasters: Take Your Employers to Court!

The latest from the CWU - those people who are breaking the postal service in this country and making sure you don't get your mail:

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is going to the High Court on Friday to seek an injunction preventing Royal Mail from using 30,000 agency workers.

It accuses Royal Mail of using agency workers as strike breakers to do the work of CWU members involved in the continuing UK-wide industrial dispute.

Now, the Royal Mail claim they aren't using agency workers as strike breakers. Far be it from me to contradict them, but I can kind of see why people might think they are employing peps to minimise the impact of this strike. And you know what? Good on 'em. So they fucking should get people in to replace those who are striking for reasons that defy understanding.

See, when it is all said and done, the Royal Mail is a business. And its business is delivering the mail. It has to do this to stay in business. Already, businesses across the country who rely on home delivery for their services are switching to other providers. If this goes on, then the Royal Mail is going to bleed to death. All of its main clients will go elsewhere. So its management are doing what they have to do to help this business survive.

So the strikers should be thanking rather than suing the Royal Mail for looking after the best interests of that business at a time when the employees are being totally irresponsible. The Royal Mail's management is doing what is necessary to ensure that there is some sort of company for the strikers to go back and work for. Which, if these strikes continue to disrupt service as much as they have been, is by no means guaranteed.