CWU in the news

[fishtank]

CWU in the news - Royal Mail job losses

7th June 2011

Media speculation generated by a story in the Sunday Times yesterday alleged that 40,000 jobs are to be lost from Royal Mail in the next five years. The story appears to be a preview piece anticipating Royal Mail's annual report and financial results which are expected this week.

The Sunday Times article claimed that "Royal Mail is drawing up plans to cut one in four of its workforce - 40,000 people - in the next five years in a radical downsizing designed to cope with tumbling postal volumes and the onset of privatisation." The figure has apparently been arrived at by claiming the Business Transformation agreement will bring 8,000 job losses a year for three years (totalling 24,000 jobs) and adding to that the claim that Royal Mail chief executive Moya Greene wants an additional 15,000 job losses by 2016.

"40 000 posties to face the sack" said the Daily Mirror in response, saying "union chiefs warned such numbers could only be found through compulsory redundancies" and said the union would threaten a national strike if that happened. "Royal Mail set to reveal the size of job losses" said The Times, echoed by City A.M and The Independent.

The Financial Times quoted a government aide linking the cuts to privatisation. "we need to make sure Royal Mail is privatised and we can get private capital into it" said the aide, adding "we don't want unnecessary job cuts but the business will have to be smaller and more efficient". The FT also quoted an official CWU spokesperson who reflected the union's policy by saying "the union will fight non-voluntary job losses". The CWU spokesperson added "we are not going to tolerate compulsory redundancies and we will make that clear to the company."

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[worktotime]

to be honest ft after todays wtl , p&l now includes walk collapseing agreed by our so called union rep who we havent seen for over a year , what more can they do to the delivery side of the job , i would take redundancy if offered as i and so many more have had enough.

[fishtank]

to be honest ft after todays wtl , p&l now includes walk collapseing agreed by our so called union rep who we havent seen for over a year , what more can they do to the delivery side of the job , i would take redundancy if offered as i and so many more have had enough.

Anybody who thinks that the redundancy terms offered under the MTSF agreement will still be available after privatisation is unfortunately tuned to the moon.

Private companies don't "gold plate" redundancy until you reach the boardroom...
Would you still take redundancy if all you got was 1 week for every year of service?

[gazza82]

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[TrueBlueTerrier]

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You may want to remove that - it has posted your postcode and therefore your address - not sure why you posted it though if there was a point its best to voice it rather than let us all guess.