CWU criticises Irish An Post management

The Communications Workers’ Union (CWU) has issued a stinging rebuke to An Post senior management following a meeting of the union’s Executive Council to discuss possible strike action.

Following a recent ballot, which delivered an overwhelming mandate for industrial action, the Executive Council met to consider the union’s next step.

Condemning the company’s approach since the two-week notice for industrial action was issued, CWU official Sean McDonagh said, ‘not only have the management of An Post failed to use the two-week period to resolve the situation, but they seem to be going out of their way to escalate it’.

Mr McDonagh was referring to a provocative announcement made by the company to introduce unilateral change without negotiation with the union or the agreement of the staff.

The CWU announced that from now on, the union’s efforts would focus on how to rescue the national postal service from an increasingly incompetent management in An Post, and that it would campaign for a stable and viable postal service into the future.

The union’s Executive Council has decided, after careful deliberation, to make a public appeal to the management in An Post to re-engage with the union immediately in relation to all outstanding issues.

The CWU has also called on An Post to withdraw its announcement to unilaterally force changes in work practices upon the workforce.