It is estimated that half of all mail centres are to be shut while delivery staff will suffer an ever-increasing workload.
This is bad for workers, and bad for the postal service that so many of us rely on.
Worse still, they are attempting to divide the workforce by offering postal workers a stake in the sell-off, with shares in the new company, whilst casualising many jobs with temporary, zero-hours and part-time contracts.
Billy Hayes, leader of the Communication Workers Union said: “we fear the government may also be plotting to seize the pension assets.”
Now is the time to defend our postal services with a mass campaign of protest from the whole working class movement: trade unions, the Labour Party and communities that rely on their post offices.
With impending action from tube workers and firefighters, workers in the CWU can take courage from knowing that this time they are not alone - we need to fight the Tories together. As more brutal cuts are announced, it is time for local anti-cuts committees to get down to delivery offices and offer the posties
the solidarity they need.
These are the words from "Workers Powers"
