In message , at 23:21:36 on 
Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Bruce  remarked:
>Royal Mail has employed more than the usual
>number of casual workers in the run-up to Christmas.  It means that
>the regular Royal Mail workers don't get to profit from their own
>strike action by clearing the backlog they created while being paid
>premium rates for overtime.
>
>The union is attempting legal action to stop this, arguing that the
>casual workers are employed for strike breaking purposes,

iirc the RM is saying the extra staff aren't being used to break the 
strike (ie sort and deliver letters in the normal run of things) but are 
there just to clear up the post-strike backlog.

>which is apparently illegal.  Or so they say.
>
>Should be an interesting court case.  ;-)

Indeed.
-- 
Roland Perry