We need to escalate the action and madelin's write an all-out will win quicker than any other way.
It also would mean we could deal with the real bigger isseus like compeittiion and the coming jobs massacre in the post. Seems to me that our leaders just want to go back tothe efficiency agreement plus an inflation pay rise, but we need to have the debate in the union about our goals because that agremenet is s**t - Royal Mail just agrees to get us back to work and then within a couple of months management's back withthe axe. We'll be weaker after more cuts, more part-timrers, lower morale etc.
We should build a strike movement with public sector workers, that could overturn the whole government's privatisation agenda and its possible right now. An all out strike could act as a beacon to build a movement llike that - like coordinating action and ballots with other unions, or unions organising an ant-privatisation movement as big and strong as the poll tax movement or anti war movement at a time when 80% of the public are against furhter privatisation.
All these other workes are balloting for pay - nurses teachers civil servants etc so why aren't we joingin with them? Theres a demo on october 13 against cuts and privatisation in the NHS, why not make it a public sector wide one and we can jump in on it?
The approach we've got is too limited and sectional at hte moment. We can win a victory for ourselves, and we willl i think, but it won't stop cuts in the long run cuz to do that youve got to stop competition, and the means closing the market/ And by joining with other public sector workers we can actually win a great victory for the working class at the moment over the Brown (as in s**t) government.
Anyway thats off me chest!
