Rolling strike action at Belgian Post Office
Unions representing staff at the Belgian post office have called for rolling strikes in the country’s three main regions due to proposed closures.
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Belgian Post wants to close 400 branches
Belgian Post Group (BPG) wants to close over a third of the 1,350 post offices in Belgium, as they are unprofitable. The social consequences will be limited as the operation will be spread over five years and part of the staff will be transferred to the new-style post offices which will be opened from May 2002.
A limited number of the 400 offices to be closed may still be saved via agreements with the local authorities. Under the terms of these agreements, councils would pay the rent of post office buildings while BPG would supply the staff.
Belgium: La Poste to cut 8,000 jobs at its mail division by 2005
Belgian postal services operator La Poste is to close two of its five sorting centres. According to the details of a new internal plan, the group’s Charleroi X and Liege X sorting offices will be replaced by a single installation to cover the Walloon region of Belgium. In Flanders, meanwhile, the group will transfer activities from its Ghent office to Anvers. The plan will be put to the group’s administrative board in December, and could lead to the loss of 198 jobs, according to figures put forward by La Poste.
Read MoreBPG still to start controversial early post system
Belgian Post Group (BPG) is starting its new Early Post service on Friday. This new service guarantees companies that their mail will be delivered before 9 a.m. Small and medium-sized enterprise organisation Unizo is angry because the service is not free and customers have no choice because of BPG’s monopoly.
Read MoreEarly Post: BPG soothes customers
‘Early Post has nothing to do with abusing our monopoly but everything with making our services more efficient’, says Frans Rombouts, CEO of Belgian postal company Belgian Post Group (BPG). Early Post guarantees a post delivery before 9 a.m. from 1 November onwards but the service costs 60 euros a month.
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