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Any plans of strike action over privitisation?

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Any plans of strike action over privitisation?

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Is the CWU planning any kind of strike action over this privitsation scam?

The current implementation is terrible and the board have been borderline deceitful over a number of issues.

I was hoping all options would be considered. I haven't even heard of the CWU or directors proposing something like moving to a co-operative business model.

I'm proud of Royal Mail and I don't want the conservatives and our board to strip it down and stitch up all the staff like it appears they are planning to. I wouldn't support boycotting DSA mail (although it is an issue that needs addressing far better than our directors have) but I would definitely support strike action over the current privitsation proposition.

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A strike is a definite possibility, in fact the CWU have told Royal mail that unless they improve the pay offer (removeing the chains would be a good start) then a strike would be inevitable. I am fairly certain that any strike over pay will also be used to push the Unions anti-privatisation message, as will the actual act of striking.
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Have the union improved there finances or will they have to borrow the money to fund a major campaign ?
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cloherty1976 wrote:Have the union improved there finances or will they have to borrow the money to fund a major campaign ?
As far as I know no improvement in finances, and not sure if they can even borrow. However, there are plenty of anti-privatisation campaigns out there who are helping, and I suspect that most of the major Unions have made solidarity donations.
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let's be realistic can we really stop privatization??
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does anyone know how the anti-privatization is going please..

in favour of or more towards the devil scenario privatize ???
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various polls I've seen most are showing 65 - 75% against it.
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TrueBlueTerrier wrote:various polls I've seen most are showing 65 - 75% against it.

ok thank you for that..