Royal Mail: Twice as many people support employees versus management

[cyu]

Excerpt from http://www.cwu.org/news/archive/support-for-striking-postal-workers.html

A poll done for BBC Newsnight on Thursday 22nd October showed that twice as many people sympathise with postal workers rather than the Royal Mail management in the postal dispute.

Half of those surveyed (50%) sympathised with the postal workers and the unions as opposed to the Royal Mail management (25%) according to an opinion poll carried out by ComRes for BBC Two's Newsnight. Full data tables available at www.comres.co.uk (http://www.comres.co.uk/).

[ls]

I've said this for a while now, public empathy lies with the strikers and not the management, it's just painted out to be like that by the mass media, the petite-bourgeoisie (largely) and of course the bourgeoisie.

Other workers of course agree with them, like I said before there were black cab drivers beebing and shouting out in solidarity with the picketers.

[Spawn of Stalin]

Good stuff, there are always a few numpties who complain that they don't receive their mail every day at the crack of dawn, but this shows that they are the minority.

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

This is good for morale purposes however strikes are not made or broken by public opinion but rather by solidarity.

[ls]

This is good for moral purposes however strikes are not made or broken by public opinion but rather by solidarity.

Solidarity felt by ordinary working-class members of the public (including black cab drivers) and not spikey haired middle-class ugly pricks like the ones that said "get back to work" to the workers that I saw though. :cool:

[YKTMX]

The mainstream coverage of the strike has been both infuriating and utterly predictable. Almost every news item I've seen has been principally focussed on the "effects" of the strike on disgruntled small business people or scabbing "couriers" or "non-Union" posties.

Journalism is dead.

[rednordman]

This is very very encouraging news to say the least. Mabey its just the people I converse with during the day, or the place I live, but I didnt expect any support. I forsaw this being like another miners crisis, penultimately ending in defeat for the working class on all angles. This has made me reconsider however.:)

[rednordman]

Good stuff, there are always a few numpties who complain that they don't receive their mail every day at the crack of dawn, but this shows that they are the minority.Hey, not just that but if you miss a parcel with the royal mail, you generally do not have much distance to travel to reclaim it (thats also considering that most mail persons are very flexible to your demands - i.e leave it by the door etc). With a private company, you generally have to travel for fucking miles, and they hold the parcel for less time before sending it back. - Just try telling the bourgouis media that!?

[Pirate turtle the 11th]

The idea that this is the end of royal mail is ridiculous, as if fed ex will have a post box in almost every road in the county country.

[cyu]

The mainstream coverage of the strike has been both infuriating and utterly predictable. Almost every news item I've seen has been principally focussed on the "effects" of the strike on disgruntled small business people or scabbing "couriers" or "non-Union" posties.

Journalism is dead.

I guess we have to ask was it ever alive to begin with?

The former chief editorial writer of the New York Times, John Swinton, reportedly had this to say at a banquet held in his honor in 1880, nearing the end of his career:

There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.

There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.

The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?

We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.