Royal Mail response to planned CWU strike
Royal Mail said today the CWU’s planned strike action next week would only add to the very difficult competitive challenges the company and its people are already facing.
Royal Mail Chief Executive Adam Crozier said: “Royal Mail will do all it can to mitigate the impact of strike action but we are very disappointed for our customers at the disruption they are now facing. We remain very willing to sit down with the CWU to explain again the absolute need for Royal Mail to modernise and to underline how damaging a strike would be for postmen and women, and our customers.”
According to Royal Mail website:
• The mail market in the UK is declining by 2.5% per year
• Royal Mail has already lost 40% of bulk business mail to rival postal operators
• Royal mail’s rivals are 40% more efficient not because their people work harder but because they have already modernised and have much more technology
• Royal mail’s rivals pay their people 25% less than Royal Mail
Mr Crozier added: “We are losing business because we have failed to change and modernise – and as a result our costs and therefore our prices are higher than those that rivals are charging in the intensely competitive business mail, which makes up 90% of all postings.
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