House of Lords Written answers and statements, 21 July 2009

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Lord Dykes (Liberal Democrat)

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to encourage the Post Office management to alter its relations with its workforce whilst the Postal Services Bill is still before Parliament.

Lord Young of Norwood Green (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills; Labour)

The Hooper report highlighted the poor industrial relations that exist in Royal Mail. One of the Government's criteria for a potential partner was the capacity to manage stakeholder issues successfully including relations with the trade unions. Now that it has not been possible to secure a partner in the current market conditions, the Government are looking to the management and the unions to take forward the modernisation of the company. We encourage both the management and the unions to work together to achieve this.

[DGP1]

The first step is for management to listen to us.

[flaminmoses]

the management need to lobby the government to save the service and not by slashing jobs.

now i wonder why they are not standing up for the company?
could it have something to do with the big cheeses contracts?