Yeovil & District Trades Union Council - RM resolution

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Royal Mail resolution
At Wednesday's meeting 18th February 2009, Yeovil TUC approved the following resolution that the Royal Mail will remains wholly in the Public sector.

"That the Yeovil Trades Union Council notes that the Labour Party Conference 2008, with the backing of Ministers, supported “a vision of a wholly publicly-owned, integrated Royal Mail Group”; Yeovil Trades Union Council welcomes the conclusion of the Hooper Report that the current universal service obligation offered by Royal Mail, including six days a week delivery, must be protected and that the primary duty of a new regulator should be to maintain it. Yeovil Trades Union Council further welcomes the recommendations in the report that the government should take responsibility for the pensions deficit which followed an extended contributions holiday and endorses the call for a new relationship between management and postal unions. Further this Trades Council welcomes the commitment of the CWU to negotiate an agreement which would support the modernisation of the industry. This Trades Council however rejects the recommendations of the Hooper Report to sell a minority stake in Royal Mail which would risk fracturing one of Britain’s greatest public services. This would be a breach of the 2005 Labour Party Manifesto. Yeovil Trades Union Council therefore agrees to write to all MP’s in the area demanding that they oppose the partial sell off of Royal Mail"