“Postal employees face the largest ever assault on their jobs, phrases and circumstances within the historical past of Royal Mail.”
1000’s of postal employees have launched a 24-hour strike, in a dispute over low pay and poor working circumstances, in what’s being described by the Communication and Employees Union (CWU) as the biggest strike in a 12 months.
The strikes, the primary of 19, come after the union accused the Royal Mail of planning structural change, which might successfully see staff in safe, well-paid jobs become a “casualised, financially precarious workforce in a single day”.
The final secretary, Dave Ward, stated: “Postal employees face the largest ever assault on their jobs, phrases and circumstances within the historical past of Royal Mail.
“The general public and companies additionally face the top of each day deliveries and destruction of the particular relationship that postal employees and the general public have in each group within the UK.
“It’s insulting the intelligence of each postal employee for the Royal Mail chief government, Simon Thompson, to say that their change agenda is ‘modernisation’.
“It’s nothing greater than an asset-stripping marketing strategy that can see the breakup of the corporate and the top of Royal Mail as a significant contributor to the UK financial system.”
Showing on Sky Information earlier at present, it was put to Ward by Kay Burley that the Royal Mail is dropping £1 million a day and needed to discover financial savings someplace, to which he replied: “Let’s have a authorities inquiry into what they’re saying as a result of what we all know is a reality is that they made £758 million final 12 months after we had an settlement on change and that settlement was instrumental in bringing the corporate via the pandemic, postal employees completed a unbelievable job and we modified on the identical time and so they made cash.
“In a matter of three or 4 months they’re now saying that they’re dropping one million kilos a day, properly if that’s true the people who find themselves working this enterprise needs to be sacked for gross mismanagement.”
Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead
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