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Number 10 e-petition
An e-petition has been set up on Number 10's website opposing privatisation of Royal Mail.
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London Postal membership will be taking 3 days strike action next week
1st July 09 : Union rep
Notices were served this afternoon to Royal Mail informing them that the London membership will be taking 3 days strike action next week.
Further action has also been agreed for the following week but as it will be wider than just London will not be revealed at the moment.
Royal Mail shambles
23rd June 09 : POSTMAN
Mail hidden in trailers,managers allegedly rigging research to give a false impression about the efficiency of deliveries,and DOM's ticking boxes that everything is ok in the morning,but failing to untick them when deliveries fail or are uncompleted.
Welcome to the new and improved 'there's not much mail anyway and we need to cut more jobs' Royal Mail.
London Postal strike 19th June
12th June 09 : Union rep
The Union have served Royal Mail with 138 notices for strike action in London next Friday into Saturday.
Ten thousand postal workers in all areas of deliveries, collections and processing across London will take industrial action for 24 hours starting from the early shift on Friday 19th June.
London posties return 91% yes vote for industrial action
31st May 09 : Union rep
London posties have delivered a massive yes vote for strike action in pursuance of a national agreement.
A CWU spokesperson for London said "It must be unprecedented to have 154 Royal Mail uniformed grade offices unanimously voting yes in such numbers, it does not happen often even in a national ballot.
Striking should be used a last resort but this is now our last resort to save our terms and condition and fight for our futures. "
Postal Bill clears Lords
21st May 09 : POSTMAN
The Government's Postal Services Bill has cleared its third reading in the House of Lords and will now pass to the House of Commons.
In the commons 180 MPs have signed Early Day Motion 428 opposing the privatisation of Royal Mail of which 148 are Labour.
The Lords have also ignored that 75% of people now oppose the part-privatisation of Royal Mail, with 60% of people saying it needs to be reformed but must remain in the public sector according to an ICM poll.
London calling,and then some
20th May 09 : Union rep
London postal workers are being balloted for strike action along with 50 other offices around the country over Royal Mail's cuts in services to the public and their jobs, terms and conditions.
In a letter to management the London Divisional Committee are asking Royal Mail to abide to national agreements and that their actions are in breach of the MTSF the IR Framework and the Pay & Mod agreements to name just a few.
The ballot opens on Monday 18th May and runs for two weeks.
Post Office chat closed
20th May 09 : Tom
The Business and Enterprise Committee web forum on the future of the Post Office has now closed
A bandwidth supping 327 posts were made on the sparsely advertised forum which closed its doors on March 10th.
Pay freeze despite double profits
Apr/May 09 : POSTMAN
24th April:A letter was sent to The CWU from Jon Millidge the Group HR Director, confirming that the Royal Mail Board has decided to enforce a pay freeze for all employees and all managers across the company.
14th May:Royal Mail announce its annual profits have almost doubled to £321m, as all four parts of the business went into the black for the first time in 20 years.
Google:The posties friendGoogle street view was launched this week in the UK and RMC users have been busy using it...
2009 Pay ClaimDave ward has written to Royal Mail HR Director Dale Haddon outlining our pay claim which is due on the 1st April...
Mandelson hides his ca$hIt's been revealed that Mandy has bunged his hoard of cash in a secret trust along with 4 other ministers...
TNT accused of bullying workforceTNT are at it again,word is they're threatening to sack 10,000 workers in the Netherlands..
Crozier attacks TNT for poaching | 9th MarTNT have been trying to poach the big clients of our parcel arm GLS claiming that they might as well come to TNT...
Dodgy TNT in tax scam | 7th MarTNT have now been forced to pay back tens of millions of pounds in unpaid tax and have admitted that its staff acted illegally...
49.9% | 2nd Mar49.9% of Royal Mail could be sold and we would still be a 'Publicly owned company'...
Crozier's £1M pension pot | 2nd MarAdam Crozier Royal Mail's CEO has built up a Royal Mail pension pot of £1.1million...
Belgian postal workers strike against privatisation | 2nd MarMore than 30,000 Belgian postal workers will stage an all-out national strike today in protest at privatisation...
Government gives £47M to Royal Mail's competitors | 1st Mar 09Government departments since 2002 have used private postal and delivery firms and have payed out nearly £47M to them...
Mandelson'£ £391,000 office makeover | 1st Mar 09Peter Mandelson spent £391,000 last year of tax payers money doing up offices for him and his junior ministers...
