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From ******* ****** ,
Joint convenor,
National shop Stewards Network
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Comrades,
I believe this is a key issue for our union, the movement and consequently the United Left.
Are we to tolerate organised scabbing by Unite members?
Or are we going to do everything in our power to support brothers and sisters in the CWU?
The outcome of the post strike will have ramifications for every public sector worker.
To help build solidarity and try and stop the scabbing, can I urge
comrades to move the motion below at Unite meetings?
Model resolution
Royal Mail Managers across Britain have been mobilised in an effort to weaken the postal workers and their CWU union in the run-up to national strikes.
Managers are travelling hundreds of miles in order to do work that is proper to CWU members and to attempt to drive down the backlog of post that has built up during the regional strikes.
At the beginning of October, for example,managers from Belfast were working in Bristol. Swindon Managers were in London, and Scottish Managers were clearing packets in East Anglia .
Managers are also cooperating with Royal Mail's plans to set up scab centres, on the model of Wapping during the News International strike.
Managers are also bullying and harassing postal workers, and refusing normal union facilities.
The vast majority, if not all, of these duties rely on managers volunteering their services.
As Unite members we are scandalised that some Unite-CMA members are volunteering for these anti-union duties.
We support the following motion:
1. We stand 100 percent with the CWU against Royal Mail and will do all in our power to assist their struggle against the management and its backers in the
government - including collecting money and attending picket lines and solidarity rallies.
2. We condemn Royal mail management for organising scabbing and attacking postal workers and their union.
3. We condemn the government for allowing this to happen and call on them to demand that it ceases immediately.
4. We condemn all Unite members who are volunteering for scabbing and call on them to stop immediately.
5. We condemn Unite members who intimidate and bully postal workers.
6. We call on Unite to expel CMA members who volunteer for scabbing.
7. UNITE should instruct CMA members not to perform anything but their normal duties or to work beyond their normal hours until the CWU has achieved a satisfactory deal.
8. UNITE should defend any CMA member who refuses to participate in the scabbing operation and shows solidarity with CWU members in dispute.
9. UNITE should begin its own industrial action ballot for CMA members in Royal Mail.
10. UNITE should call an emergency meeting of the Administration,Managerial,Professional and Supervisory National Sector Committee to discuss and find ways to support the CWU
11. We believe that the National Officer (Julia Long) should publicly condemn the scabbing.
The majority of managers are @RSEHOLES 