Now Royal Mail workers threaten to strike over post office

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Now Royal Mail workers threaten to strike over post office sell-off

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The coalition Government is set to find itself on an early collision course with unions today when postal workers' leaders will launch a campaign against moves to part-privatise the Royal Mail.

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is expected to launch a special campaign committee to fight any attempt to revive privatisation plans.

The previous Labour government had to shelve attempts to attract private partners into the postal organisation after a CWU campaign sparked a revolt by backbench MPs.

The union's annual conference in Bournemouth will today discuss the new Government's bid to revive Royal Mail privatisation.

An emergency motion to the conference will call on the union to reject the "discredited" policy of the previous government and to campaign for a wholly publicly-owned Royal Mail.

CWU general secretary Billy Hayes said: "Privatising the Royal Mail would be a deeply unpopular move. People and businesses rely on mail services and in
particular the universal service which guarantees delivery to every address in the UK whether it's rural, urban, residential or commercial.

"Making private profit out of public services is just wrong and it will come at the expense of services, jobs and price rises. Royal Mail and the union are working together to transform the company and it is flourishing in the public sector.

"What Royal Mail needs now is government backing, not a return to an old fashioned discredited sell-off that nobody wants."

Delegates are expected to back a call for a "broad-based public campaign" against the proposal.

It is not yet clear whether the future ownership of the Royal Mail will be included in Government Bills being published in the Queen's Speech tomorrow.

There are suggestions that Sir Richard Hooper, who submitted a part-privatisation plan to former Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, was asked to update his report.

One of a number of emergency motions submitted to the conference raises the threat of industrial action to fight any privatisation plans.

The motion reads: "The NEC (national executive committee) is instructed to use all means possible to protect jobs and services in a publicly owned Royal Mail Group, including industrial action."

The union organised a series of strikes last year over jobs and working conditions which resulted in an agreement aimed at keeping industrial peace at the Royal Mail.


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[TrueBlueTerrier]

Usual poor journalism from Daily Mail more especially with their headline - I have had my say anyone else.


(Lets see how many they let through),

[viking]

Now lets see, Dont tell me Billy Boy you want us to back you up just when it suits you. Yes you are right no- one wants to see RM privatised but did you not honestly see this coming.!! For Gods sake man wake up and smell the coffee!

[jack straw]

No one is gonna strike now after being royally stitched up by Hayes and Ward in the 2010 and beyond fiasco.
Get rid of those two, and then you might get a reaction.

[SpacePhoenix]

I don't think there will be any strikes over it anyway as it would not be a dispute with RM it would be a dispute with the government and AFAIK there can't be any strikes over political issues.

[jockstrapp]

I don't give a f#ck whether Royal Mail are privatized or not and I will not be answering any strike calls by the gruesome twosome.

[pcb]

Wake up jock strap, the call for strike action is the last resolve. You apparently are unwilling to except a ballot result and now you are saying you will not heed the call by the union to hold another ballot to strike. So what do you want? To bury your head in the sand and see what happens?
Your way opens up compulsory redundancies. To fight for a viable public service we have had to adapt and work differently that does not mean allowing RM to hust steam roll any ideas through! Without being at the table we would be in a far different place than we are now!
Labour could not privatise us but the bloody CONDEMS will have a bloody full on try to do it!
Be smart or be dumb its your choice. Pick and choose when and where to fight!

[DGP1]

Wake up jock strap, the call for strike action is the last resolve. You apparently are unwilling to except a ballot result and now you are saying you will not heed the call by the union to hold another ballot to strike. So what do you want? To bury your head in the sand and see what happens?
Your way opens up compulsory redundancies. To fight for a viable public service we have had to adapt and work differently that does not mean allowing RM to hust steam roll any ideas through! Without being at the table we would be in a far different place than we are now!
Labour could not privatise us but the bloody CONDEMS will have a bloody full on try to do it!
Be smart or be dumb its your choice. Pick and choose when and where to fight!

I think you'll find that after being sold out by the CWU leadership (and all those who voted in the last agreement) most of us on deliveries won't be backing the union up anymore, £20 per week paycut and no chance of duties being made right then you can't really blame us.

[fishtank]

Wake up jock strap, the call for strike action is the last resolve. You apparently are unwilling to except a ballot result and now you are saying you will not heed the call by the union to hold another ballot to strike. So what do you want? To bury your head in the sand and see what happens?
Your way opens up compulsory redundancies. To fight for a viable public service we have had to adapt and work differently that does not mean allowing RM to hust steam roll any ideas through! Without being at the table we would be in a far different place than we are now!
Labour could not privatise us but the bloody CONDEMS will have a bloody full on try to do it!
Be smart or be dumb its your choice. Pick and choose when and where to fight!

So there is a strike over privatisation...then what,the goverment pushes ahead with privatisation Strike all out, lockout, weeks pass, people starved back in, new contracts waiting, union goes to the high court minimum representation allowed, therefore removal of facilities, RM would have nothing to lose because of financial instability. Reps in workplace ignored and ETs used just to get basic rights, RM does not want or care for the union removing facilities would destroy the union as we know it. UNiSON here we come.

You will obviously recognise the words in red....they are yours...your idea of the result of a NO vote...what would be different now pcb.
Apart of course from the fact that this would not be a trade dispute and therefore very probably an unlawful breach of contract.

[pcb]

DGP1: 80,000 delivery members! If Delivery did not want the agreement they would have voted it out!
Fishtank: You have missed the point, I am talking about following the majority decision in any call for industrial action what ever the decision.
As always when the union calls I will be there.
Now as for my earlier comments I still stand by them this does not mean I will not fight to the best of my ability to stop privatisation but it sets out my version of what will/might happen. Hope this has cleared up any confusion.