'Don't touch our work' say London postal workers

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by Yuri Prasad

Postal workers in London were waiting to find out when they will strike against job losses as Socialist Worker went to press.

Royal Mail bosses want to close the Nine Elms, Bow Locks and Rathbone Place offices with the loss of thousands of jobs.

Members of the CWU union at the two mail centres and the central London delivery office have voted

overwhelmingly for action.

But, say union activists, Royal Mail plans to move work out of the capital as early as next week could trigger action—even before an official strike begins.

“Our national conference voted unanimously to back the fight in London, and that means that no other office should touch work moved out of our offices,” said Paul Cox, a senior union rep at the giant Nine Elms mail centre.

Bosses’ attempts to move mail from striking offices have been the trigger for waves of unofficial action in the past.

Now, plans to redirect work from offices earmarked for

closure could spark action.

“That’s always been the tradition in our union—and any attempt to transfer our mail should be met by a strong response,” Paul added.

Merlin Reader, a union rep at Mount Pleasant, agrees. “Many postal workers in threatened offices are seeing this as a fight for the union—especially after management imposed new shift patterns last week,” he told Socialist Worker.

“But this is an attack on the union everywhere, not just in London. This fight needs to go national. We should be preparing for a national strike to defend every job.”

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[mountec1]

Merlin reader is a well known to have extreme left views that's why no one takes a blind bit of notice of him.

[maisymoo04]

dont touch our work hahaha you get nothin anyway the rest of the country does it for ye london,funniest thing i have heard all year,well apart from the methods that is

[pyphon]

Why should we care, bet they don't give a crap about other offices closing.

[postietaz]

no cpmpulsorys xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[postietaz]

sheras worth feck all ??????????

[postietaz]

what did you all xote 4 ??????????????????

[postietaz]

39 hr wee k where ????????????

[spurs1959]

dont touch our work hahaha you get nothin anyway the rest of the country does it for ye london,funniest thing i have heard all year,well apart from the methods that is

What an arsewipe

[DGP1]

dont touch our work hahaha you get nothin anyway the rest of the country does it for ye london,funniest thing i have heard all year,well apart from the methods that is

What's an arsewipe?

There fixed it for you - it's someone who comes on here only when strikes are looming and bitches and moans about everybody but doesn't provide any sensible ideas.

[barbario]

dont touch our work hahaha you get nothin anyway the rest of the country does it for ye london,funniest thing i have heard all year,well apart from the methods that is

Are you a Manager ? because the way you bitch on here,you sound like one.

[RedBagMan]

Does this go down as "The Thread with the Most Typos" ???

[maisymoo04]

dont touch our work hahaha you get nothin anyway the rest of the country does it for ye london,funniest thing i have heard all year,well apart from the methods that is

Are you a Manager ? because the way you bitch on here,you sound like one.

no pal am a postman who works outside ,voted NO to every single ballot we had and still came in ,sayin that our you one off the mail centre staff who voted YES coz the pound signs were tanggled infront of ye for the d2dsor one of the 55000 nob heads who could not be arsed to vote

[maisymoo04]

dont touch our work hahaha you get nothin anyway the rest of the country does it for ye london,funniest thing i have heard all year,well apart from the methods that is

What's an arsewipe?

There fixed it for you - it's someone who comes on here only when strikes are looming and bitches and moans about everybody but doesn't provide any sensible ideas.

i used to be your mate dgp

[maisymoo04]

its funny isnt it 2 posts of mail centre staff from london it looks like,because you our goin on strike you join in on the topics any other time you dont say f all about delivery staff