Royal Mail bosses join sell-off fight

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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Royal Mail bosses threw their weight behind postal workers today in the fight to save the service from privatisation.

Senior managers, who are part of the Unite union, said they fully supported the Communications Workers Union (CWU) whose members have voted overwhelmingly against coalition government plans to hand Royal Mail over to the private sector.

Unite assistant general secretary Tony Burke said: "Our members working in the Royal Mail are in management and senior management positions.

"They are becoming increasingly concerned about the proposed privatisation and its implications for the public, for pensioners, the disabled and small companies - as well as future employment and their pension provisions.

"Their concerns reflect the overwhelming vote against privatisation carried this week by CWU members."

A CWU spokeswoman said is was "great" to have the full support of Unite on "this vital campaign.

"Privatising Royal Mail would have a major impact on managers as well as CWU members in the company, not to mention on customers too," she said.

"We remain firmly convinced that privatisation would only serve limited vested interests and faceless investors simply after a quick profit. We, along with our members who work in Royal Mail, will provide MPs with information and arguments on why we think privatisation is such a bad idea at the lobby on July 2. Until then, the fight to Save Our Royal Mail continues to build momentum."

As part of its campaign of opposition to privatisation, the CWU has announced the July lobby of Parliament and, at a meeting between Mr Burke and CWU leader Billy Hayes, it was agreed that both unions would work jointly to save the Royal Mail from being sold off.

Mr Burke added that all Unite members are being encouraged to attend the lobby to show the coalition the strength of opposition to privatisation.

Royal Mail has claimed that privatisation would enable the company to "combine the best of the public and private sectors and secure as many good-quality jobs as possible."

[UnhappyGremlin]

I think I woke up in an alternative universe today....

I know this doesn't really say much, but it does appear the fight is gaining momentum, as well as support from unlikely places.
I can only assume some in senior management have realised it won't just be our necks on the chopping block.
And maybe their pensions are in jeopardy too.....

[aiden01]

I think I woke up in an alternative universe today....

I know this doesn't really say much, but it does appear the fight is gaining momentum, as well as support from unlikely places.
I can only assume some in senior management have realised it won't just be our necks on the chopping block.
And maybe their pensions are in jeopardy too.....

Can,t see them on picket line with us tho

[Judgee]

RM has an excess of managers. They have always had too many chiefs and not enough indians. They know that if privitisation comes, management will be trimmed the hardest so it's more in thier interest than anyone elses to fight it!

[UnhappyGremlin]

I think I woke up in an alternative universe today....

I know this doesn't really say much, but it does appear the fight is gaining momentum, as well as support from unlikely places.
I can only assume some in senior management have realised it won't just be our necks on the chopping block.
And maybe their pensions are in jeopardy too.....

Can,t see them on picket line with us tho

Well no, but then they aren't allowed are they.

But, if they hold their own IA ballot, then they could cooperate with the CWU and come out with us.
Though, I think it would be better that, should they ballot and vote to strike, that they cooperate with CWU and take different strike days to us, so when we are at work they aren't, and they surely would have zero chance of having enough bosses to cover all the management positions up and down the country, even on a skeletal system and pulling double shifts etc.
I would actually love to see that...though I don't think they will be balloted in the first place, and if they were, what would be the chances of them voting to walk out?

[UnhappyGremlin]

RM has an excess of managers. They have always had too many chiefs and not enough indians. They know that if privitisation comes, management will be trimmed the hardest so it's more in thier interest than anyone elses to fight it!

If they're smart enough and not too short sighted to realise that.
I've said this many times, they need to wake up and smell the coffee, it's not just posties jobs/pensions etc. on the line, but theirs, and they need to fight to protect themselves now.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

I can't see anything happening from the CMA, in the last decade since I have been at RM I think their most militant action was wait for it

A letter to the CEO ........................

[mandelsons_toenail]

When it comes to it the CMA are spineless, you will of ever see a manager on a picket line.

About they grew a pair aswell

If we go private they are more screwed than us.

Every cloud and that

[DB1100]

It reminds me of the guards at Belsen,trying to mingle with the prisoners,they have made our live's a pain now they want to be our friends f^^k em

[clashcityrocker]

It reminds me of the guards at Belsen,trying to mingle with the prisoners,they have made our live's a pain now they want to be our friends f^^k em

I think you need to look at the bigger picture.
The broader the church, the greater our chance of defeating privatisation.
And while they might not understand it, they belong on our side in the longer class struggle.

The Countryside Alliance is also on our team in the fight against privatisation.
Welly- wearing fox killers..... welcome!

[DB1100]

It reminds me of the guards at Belsen,trying to mingle with the prisoners,they have made our live's a pain now they want to be our friends f^^k em

I think you need to look at the bigger picture.
The broader the church, the greater our chance of defeating privatisation.
And while they might not understand it, they belong on our side in the longer class struggle.

The Countryside Alliance is also on our team in the fight against privatisation.
Welly- wearing fox killers..... welcome!

I see your point but,I'm a sceptic about management having been subjected to numerous performance lectures because I refuse to be intimidated into coming in early,the frog and snake springs to mind.

[fishtank]

f**k them.
They'll fold at the slightest sign of pressure(or bribe) anyway.

[fishtank]

I can't see anything happening from the CMA,in the last decade since I have been at RM I think their most militant action was

A letter to the CEO ........................

It wasn't even a strongly worded letter.

[prowler]

f**k them.
They'll fold at the slightest sign of pressure(or bribe) anyway.

Correct!

[POSTMAN]

I can't see anything happening from the CMA,in the last decade since I have been at RM I think their most militant action was

A letter to the CEO ........................

It wasn't even a strongly worded letter.

But wont they now have access to Uncle Bob's copy n paste stash?