UK freight train operator EWS has denied allegations that it ‘fleeced’ the Royal Mail in its long-running letter distribution contract.
The suggestion is raised in a letter from an influential Westminster MP, Lawrie Quinn.
The letter is an attempt to ‘kick-start’ a public debate into the Royal Mail’s decision to axe its entire rail service from EWS, up to 49 trains a night, by next spring.
Read MoreThe Canadian Union of Postal Workers plans to go on strike just after midnight Thursday to demand for better job security and increase of wages, it is reported Thursday.
The 45,000 members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have been without a contract since Jan. 31. Last month, 92 percent of postal workers voted in favor of a strike mandate over issues including salaries, subcontracting, retirement, work load and safety.
Read MoreHays plc is pleased to announce that the sale of its Hays IMS business to Iron Mountain Europe Limited completed today for total cash proceeds of GBP200m on a cash and debt free basis.
Read MoreThe main postal union yesterday threatened to take industrial action if Allan Leighton, chairman of the Royal Mail, failed to offer a more attractive pay deal.
Mr Leighton has tabled a 14.5 per cent pay rise over 18 months, but the Communication Workers Union said that the rise was worth only 4.5 per cent because most of it was linked to productivity rises.
Dave Ward, deputy general secretary, said: “At some point it may be necessary for us to ballot on industrial action. The time is fast approaching when we cannot sit back and keep being told that our members are the most valuable asset in the industry without delivering real, up-front investment in this asset.”
The CWU said that the pay proposal was “smoke and mirrors, the business’s way of replacing their so-called treacle with jam tomorrow or, in their case, probably never at all”.
Mr Leighton angered union leaders by going over their heads to write to all 180,000 employees to offer the wage increase. The chairman said he was frustrated at the pace of progress over the pay talks.
A deal, which is crucial to the future of Royal Mail, is due to be agreed by October.
Read MoreShanghai has seen an explosion of activity in the logistics market in the past 12 months as foreign companies have entered the market and domestic ones have increased their focus on the importance of logistics.
Companies such as UPS are moving their Greater China headquarters from Hong Kong to Shanghai to capitalise on the city’s many advantages, including its dynamic economic growth and strategic location.
Others such as ProLogis, the world’s largest provider of distribution facilities and services, are moving into the Chinese market for the first time, but concentrating on Shanghai first as a “dragonhead” through which they can expand into other Chinese markets.
Read MoreThe Department of Transportation on Tuesday rejected the latest bid by Deutsche Post World Net and DHL International to force the chief executives of U.S. rivals FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service to testify in the dispute over the ownership of DHL’s cargo airline. Deutsche Post and DHL had sought to subpoena Fred Smith, chairman and chief executive of FedEx, and Mike Eskew, chairman and chief executive of UPS, in response to the subpoenas of their chief executives issued by the administrative law judge in the case.
Read MoreThe federal probe into Deutsche Post’s ownership of the former DHL Airways took another twist Wednesday.
William Robinson, who was majority owner of DHL until July 14, is refusing to be deposed by UPS and FedEx . The rival companies are asking Ronnie Yoder, a Department of Transportation Chief Administrative Law, to force Robinson to appear on Thursday as scheduled. If he still refuses to appear, UPS and FedEx are asking for sanctions, according to court papers filed with the DOT Wednesday.
Read MoreThe main postal union yesterday threatened to take industrial action if Allan Leighton, chairman of the Royal Mail, failed to offer a more attractive pay deal. Mr Leighton has tabled a 14.5 per cent pay rise over 18 months, but the Communication Workers Union said that the rise was worth only 4.5 per cent because most of it was linked to productivity rises. Dave Ward, deputy general secretary, said: “At some point it may be necessary for us to ballot on industrial action. The time is fast approaching when we cannot sit back and keep being told that our members are the most valuable asset in the industry without delivering real, up-front investment in this asset.”
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