At the UNI Europa Conference in Toulouse the 4th October 2011
Post workers in their uniforms from a cross Europe opened the afternoon session of the UNI Europa Conference in Toulouse. With a march through the conference room, they called the attention of the delegates to the dramatic situation in the European postal sector. The European Union completed liberalisation of the postal market in all Member States on the 1st of January 2011. The consequences are lower quality postal services, higher prices and social dumping created by competition based on salaries and wages.
Ingeborg Saetre, president of UNI Europa Post&Logistics presented the success of the Norwegian postal union, which used information on the EU situation and the support of the European postal trade unions and UNI Europa Post & Logistics to stop postal liberalisation in Norway. The Norwegian parliament listened finally to postal union Postkom's arguments and decided not to implement the Directive as they are not member of the European Union.
Despite this great success, post liberalisation continues unabated in the Member States of the EU. The postal trade unions are fighting together with UNI Europa Post & Logistics against the negative consequences of postal liberalisation and demanding to regulate deregulation and create quality jobs for quality services.
