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The boss of Royal Mail has hit out at union leaders for "frustrating" attempts to rescue the struggling business.

Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier points the finger of blame at unions



In an exclusive interview with Sky's Jeff Randall, chief executive Adam Crozier accused the union of blocking attempts to make the business more efficient.

"In a nutshell what we have is a company that needs to modernise to survive and a union that, whilst on the face of it is saying it's up for modernisation, is actually doing pretty much everything it can to frustrate those changes on the ground."

He went on to focus the blame on workers in the London area.

"What we really need is people to get on with that modernisation.

"We're now in the final throes of that and we're doing that in London, and in London the union and some of our people don't want to make those changes.

"All we're asking for is our people to work in London all the hours they are paid to work and I do not think for any company that that is an unreasonable request."


Mr Crozier's comments come as the Communication Workers Union is ballotting its 121,000 members in the Royal Mail over possible national industrial action.

In an interview for Jeff Randall Live, Billy Hayes, general secretary of the CWU said that he expects his members to vote in favour of strike action.

"The fact of the matter is, I don't think Royal Mail would dispute this, that changes have taken place without support of the workforce.

"That'll be signified by the ballot result we're expecting which will be a yes vote."

If the proposed strike takes place it will be the worst industrial action to hit the Royal Mail since 2007.

The threat of a strike in the run-up to Christmas is the latest problem for Royal Mail in the six years that Adam Crozier has been in charge.

In 2008 the Royal Mail cancelled both its second daily delivery and Sunday collections.

Over the past two years 2,500 post offices have closed, while more than 40,000 postal workers' jobs have been lost.

The Royal Mail's pension deficit has also now ballooned to close to £10bn.

Earlier this year business secretary Lord Mandelson was forced to pull back from plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail after Labour backbenchers threatened to block the move.

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