excellent article by socialist workers paper

[stephen500]

This is a link to a great article in this paper, in the past they have done great pieces with pictures of picket lines.

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=13063
''Post office dispute enters crucial stage
by Yuri Prasad

The battle between Royal Mail bosses and the CWU postal workers’ union is at a crucial stage, the outcome of which will determine the future of the union in the industry.

The leadership of the union was meeting to discuss the next steps in its campaign as Socialist Worker went to press.

Four periods of strikes by 130,000 workers over pay in the summer forced management to offer new talks.

But it is clear from documents released following the breakdown of talks that management are out to impose “total flexibilityâ€

[dvbuk55]

It would appear from this article that the exec are far more worried about their standing with the Labour party and Brown than they are with the mugs who pay their wages.

[IWW Fellow Worker]

I'm grateful for the coverage our Trotskyist comrades have given us in this dispute and it's about time they started looking a bit closer at how the CWU operates at the highest level rather than the complete lack of criticism we've had over the last five weeks.

[norbet colon]

I'm grateful for the coverage our Trotskyist comrades have given us in this dispute and it's about time they started looking a bit closer at how the CWU operates at the highest level rather than the complete lack of criticism we've had over the last five weeks.

I actually agree with the SWP , it's just a game with high stakes and/or a game with no rules for RM . Even New Lie-bour got rid of this mentality that it only matters at Election Times and learn't to play the game for real whilst in Opposition . People didn't necessarily vote for New Lie-bour 's policies in '97 , it was more of a anti-tory vote and the CWU are going to get marginalized if they don't wake up.