Strike action to defend Royal Mail jobs

[TrueBlueTerrier]

As these threads tend to follow well-worn paths, I was just thinking it was about time we had the usual less-than-erudite and irrelevant comments by the usual suspects....one down, two to go, then....

Actually I thought both of you had made irrelevant comments - my comment was highlighting that. But then if you are allowed to make irrelvant comments and others are not when did RMC become a dictatorial and why hasn't Postman advised me that you are now an Admin/Moderator.

[BELIAL]

A Coventry postal worker

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) recently announced its intention to hold a national strike ballot if any postal worker, anywhere in the country, is made compulsorily redundant.

Factual and informative

This new business plan includes the closure of half of the mail centres around the country, which will lead to compulsory redundancies. This is contrary to last year's agreement.

Ditto

And it won't end with mail centre closures.

Conjecture but hardly wild speculation

CWU members can learn from the stand of the four unions taking action on 30 June. We need to be unified in action against the planned attacks on all our jobs. And we need our union leaders to begin to coordinate action with other unions whose members face attacks on their jobs, pay, conditions and the services they provide.

Subjective but not an unreasonable conclusion given present events.

We face a further attack on our pensions if Royal Mail is privatised. We were shunted onto an inferior pension scheme two years ago and the CWU leaders accepted it.

Some of those awkward facty things again

This was unforgivable.

Opinion,but one I share for practical and tactical reasons.

It's down to members to put pressure on the leadership to allow us to take action in order to defend ourselves from all attacks.

Cart before the horse, ticks me off no end and a big mistake in my opinion. An attitude fostered by democratic centralism, far too easy to control ,disempowering and a ready excuse for passivity.

[blackadder]

the cwu going to strike if somebody gets compulsary redundancy, best laugh ive had today. there be plenty of posties who take the redundancy and leave, in fact i lay a bet and say that there be more people wanting to leave given the chance. this reminds me of titanic. good ship going down and not enough life boats

[Tman]

But then if you are allowed to make irrelvant comments and others are not when did RMC become a dictatorial

Is that a rhetorical question? Either way,that wouldn't make RMC "dictatorial". "Unfair" or "one-sided" maybe, but not dictatorial..

and why hasn't Postman advised me that you are now an Admin/Moderator.

Knowing what a squinny you can be, perhaps he wanted to break it to you face-to-face?

[BELIAL]

http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/ ... -mail-jobs

A Coventry postal worker

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) recently announced its intention to hold a national strike ballot if any postal worker, anywhere in the country, is made compulsorily redundant. This is to be welcomed as Royal Mail, under the stewardship of new boss Moya Greene, seems intent on ripping up the agreement it signed up to just a year ago.

This new business plan includes the closure of half of the mail centres around the country, which will lead to compulsory redundancies. This is contrary to last year's agreement. And it won't end with mail centre closures.

CWU members can learn from the stand of the four unions taking action on 30 June. We need to be unified in action against the planned attacks on all our jobs. And we need our union leaders to begin to coordinate action with other unions whose members face attacks on their jobs, pay, conditions and the services they provide.

We face a further attack on our pensions if Royal Mail is privatised. We were shunted onto an inferior pension scheme two years ago and the CWU leaders accepted it. This was unforgivable. It's down to members to put pressure on the leadership to allow us to take action in order to defend ourselves from all attacks.

Just a reminder of the OP lest we forget