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| Britain |
| Royal Mail hires 30,000 workers in attempt to beat strike. |
| 2009-10-19 |
| Five thousand managers will also be used to keep the post moving during each strike and Royal Mail will open five extra sorting centres for parcels to minimise disruption in the run-up to Christmas, the busiest period of the year. Royal Mail said it expected most of the 20,000 postmen and women not in the union to work through the strike. The firm usually recruits around 15,000 temporary workers to cope in the pre-Christmas period but is now planning to hire double that number - and earlier than usual. A spokesman said the process was "well under way" and the company had received job applications from about 85,000 people. He said: "We have been absolutely inundated. These are difficult times and there are a lot of people out there who want to work." But, in an increasingly bitter dispute, the Communication Workers Union said support for the action was "rock-solid" among its 120,000 members and it was confident that services would be "severely disrupted" and would increase the backlog of mail to "well over 60 million items" by the weekend. Strikes have already been announced for Thursday and Friday and union leaders meet on Monday when they will announce more stoppages aimed at crippling services in the weeks leading up to Christmas, starting with a three-day rolling strike next week. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Chicago is going the other way. Daily is letting go non union workers for 24 days to cut costs. I guess he has to protect his unions. I'll bet it will not be enough. He didn't want to raise taxes. OOHNooo did I do that!. Just another pot hole. |
| Posted by: Dale 2009-10-19 14:15 |