Tag: Communication Workers Union – CWU

Postal workers may strike over Royal Mail vehicle fleet sell-off

Posted by | Sep 4, 2001 | |

THE ROYAL Mail and Parcelforce yesterday put their entire 40,000-
strong vehicle fleet up for sale in a move denounced by unions as further
evidence of the creeping privatisation of postal services. Consignia, the group formerly known as the Post Office, said its
preferred option was to form a joint venture in which it would retain a 51 per
cent stake. But a spokesman added that an outright sale of the fleet remained
an option.

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CWU Gen Sec chastises a postal regulator bent on delivering Royal Mail workers' labour into the hands of the private sector

Posted by | Aug 7, 2001 | |

THE Post Office is a monopoly. It is strange that recent conditioning means
that I almost feel apologetic about this disgraceful state of affairs. I feel as if I should add: “I’m sorry about this. Naturally, I will do everything I can to end it. I know that monopolies are bad.” But the truth is that I don’t feel that way at all. I don’t even feel that there should be a debate about it. A postal monopoly is not good, bad or indifferent, it is a fact – like the fact
that there is only one Monopolies Commission. No other organisation could begin to compete with Royal Mail in any serious way. The fact that it has remained unchallenged as the nation’s mail carrier for 350 years is not because no-one else has been interested in the business or that noone has noticed that there is a postal service. No-one has tried to enter the market because there is no room for two parallel enterprises moving mail across the country.

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Royal Mail could face all-out strike

Posted by | Jul 24, 2001 | |

POSTAL WORKERS will today embark on plans for an all-out strike amid a
clash with Consignia, which operates Royal Mail, over redundancies and sick
pay. The main postal union gave warning that the changes to working
conditions could plunge Royal Mail, already beleaguered by poor employment
relations, into “industrial anarchy”.

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Postal workers told to improve or else: Scots privatisation threat

Posted by | May 19, 2001 | |

MILITANT Post Office workers were yesterday warned they could face at least 100,000 job losses and privatisation of mail deliveries in Glasgow and Edinburgh if they refuse to improve their industrial relations record. The new postal watchdog predicted that both postal staff and management were “running out of time” to end the lengthy series of stoppages, and said they appeared “simply incapable of change”.

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