![]() ![]() The privatised postal service saw its year on profits to March 2021 quadruple to £726 million through increased parcel deliveries, fuelled by online shopping. The cynical reference to the pandemic proving a blessing for business sums up the criminality of the entire corporate elite. The change that we need is to pivot our business from a business that was built for letters into a business that can now win in the parcels market.” And our reality today is we are losing £1 million a day. Royal Mail has made clear it intends to push ahead unilaterally with both the de facto pay cut and stripping away of workers conditions outlined in its sweatshop charter, “The change we need.” Thompson told the BBC Friday, “Our reality is that the COVID bubble has burst, and we can see the economic situation around us all. The latest predicted is that it will hit 22 percent early next year. The CWU has made no pay demand to defend workers living standards as inflation climbs to a 40 year high of over 12 percent. But postal workers will not defeat the attacks they face by the union bureaucracy re-establishing its cosy relations with management or antics that are supposed to shame it. This was presented as a masterstroke wrong-footing Thompson who has said in a radio interview that the company was open to talks. The same day he rang to try and speak with Royal Mail chief executive Simon Thompson, who was inside the building, leaving a message for him to come outside and “have a chat.” The selective action has meant that up to 170,000 postal and telecom workers have not struck together.Īt a rally held by the union last Friday at Mount Pleasant Mail Centre in London, CWU General Secretary Dave Ward promised the “biggest fight”. The staggered six days of strike action-which includes workers at government-run Crown Post Offices-has been used by the CWU to stem demands for more unified and extensive strike action. Both privatised utilities have implemented below inflation pay awards unilaterally-at BT of 3 to 8 percent and Royal Mail just 2 percent-while recording huge profits and payouts to shareholders. ![]() The postal and telecom workers are all members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), but there was no attempt by the union to encourage BT and Royal Mail workers to even attend each other’s picket lines. ![]() The picket line at Winton District Office in Bournemouth ![]()
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