Royal mail workers fight privatisation

[goinpostal]

Royal mail workers fight privatisation
Workers Power 348 – October 2010
By a CWU rep

It’s back to the 1980s with the post, as the new Con-Dem government pushes for a quick sell-off of Royal Mail and postal bosses press on with downsizing plans, with sweeping office closures and job losses.

Government ministers argue that only the private sector can provide the capital Royal Mail needs to “modernise” its operations. In reality, their plans are to slash services for the public – including possibly Saturday deliveries – smash the union and hand the company over to private companies to profit from. To weaken opposition they are promising to keep Post Offices publicly owned and give Royal Mail staff shares, while selling 90 per cent on the stock market.

We need to fight!
So far the CWU union’s leadership has fought neither privatisation nor downsizing. They cancelled the 9 October national demonstration and are just lobbying ConDem MPs in marginal seats – but by the time these are up for re-election, privatisation will be long over. Wedded to a strategy of negotiating cuts, they are blocking any strikes. This means any industrial action must start out and spread unofficially.

Stevenage CWU activists have organised a local march against their office closure. We need such campaigns up and down the country, linking local cuts to privatisation. Ultimately it will take a national strike to defeat downsizing and privatisation.

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[red666bear]

cwu are a dead duck - bring on privatisation, the hard workers have nothing to fear and all the dead wood will be weeded out.

[Night Tonic]

Yes indeed

[POSTMAN]

Yes indeed

Quality keep going,all the threads on the subject to post in and you go for this one 1st,at least you're consistent.

[the deliverer]

Cannot the union get a message across to the public regarding the effects of privatisation through the postal deliveries. Surely something could be produced and slipped in with the D2Ds - I would deliver any produced. After all it would be a wasted opportunity not to try it out and it would be a universal delivery - something that may never happen again in the future. Maybe a return slip on the leaflet to the union and MPs with an indication of whether the public support this or not. Any ideas and would the management let us do this?

[AnotherLimey]

Yes indeed

Your funny to say the least, if you are what i think you will be one of the first gone, you reap what you sow

[jockstrapp]

cwu are a dead duck - bring on privatisation, the hard workers have nothing to fear and all the dead wood will be weeded out.

That's 90% of management f#cked then.

[ziko]

Cannot the union get a message across to the public regarding the effects of privatisation through the postal deliveries. Surely something could be produced and slipped in with the D2Ds - I would deliver any produced. After all it would be a wasted opportunity not to try it out and it would be a universal delivery - something that may never happen again in the future. Maybe a return slip on the leaflet to the union and MPs with an indication of whether the public support this or not. Any ideas and would the management let us do this?

"An indication of whether the public support this or not"
Basically you want the ConDems to print we are going to slash RM so much so that you (the voting public) will have to Q for ages just to collect your mail from a office 15 miles from your home because the foreign owned company that we, Cameron and Clegg sold RM to couldnt give a $$$$ about the universal service delivering to every address in this country.
What do you think the results will be pal ? If the future truth was ever published onto a D2D for the likes of you and i to deliver into every home then the results from the public would read around 99% vote NO to Privatisation...!
Its this simple, 'They' dont want 'us' to know.

[rocky46]

Or will it be the weak and the vunerable they eek out first?

[ziko]

The CWU would never Print this. Not because they don't want to but because they would never be allowed to. Make of this what you will, but they are controlled ultimately by powerful men some in government some not.

[gideon 60]

cwu are a dead duck - bring on privatisation, the hard workers have nothing to fear and all the dead wood will be weeded out.

That's 90% of management f#cked then.

heard from high ranking managers relation that said manager being sent to london to get rid of 2000 front line managers

[baldrick]

cwu are a dead duck - bring on privatisation, the hard workers have nothing to fear and all the dead wood will be weeded out.

That's 90% of management f#cked then.

heard from high ranking managers relation that said manager being sent to london to get rid of 2000 front line managers

It's not all bad news then. We're 'all in it together'.

[borders]

Yes indeed

Your funny to say the least, if you are what i think you will be one of the first gone, you reap what you sow

he is retired i do believe, you would think with all the extra time on his hands he could better !!

[barbario]

If i were the owner of a small business that relied on the post,i would be extremely worried at the moment. What the Union has been saying regarding the service after privatiszation will probably come true.