Its on the union website, can't post it all, its far too long. A few quotes
Q31 Mr Bone: Let us be specific then. With some highly skilled, and you said, I think, excellent management, in response to Mr Weir you said you fully supported them. Have they not failed, because how can it be under your watch that this management has landed you with such a painful series of strikes, hurting so many people across the country? It must be a failure to get to that stage and I just do not believe that this is the sole responsibility of the union. It seems to me the average postman or postwoman is an extremely decent person whom the country has a high regard for. They are not the sort of people that go on strike willy-nilly. Do you not just accept that one point, that it must have been a failure to get to that stage?
Mr Hutton: No, I am not going to accept that. If it would be helpful for the Committee, Chairman, I will write and set out to the Committee the full chronology of events from the early part of March when these negotiations started. It would not be a terribly constructive thing to do for me to point the finger of blame. There have been failures in the system, of course. This industrial action I believe, as I said earlier, should never have started, but I think it is not fair to say that the sole responsibility for that is with the management of the Royal Mail. I think there are always, to quote a very familiar phrase we will all be aware of, two sides to every argument.
Q32 Mr Bone: But you would also accept from that then that there was failure by the management?
Mr Hutton: Your question to me was that they were solely responsible for what happened.
Q33 Mr Bone: And I think you said they were partially responsible, or you implied in your response.
Mr Hutton: No. I think with hindsight we can all say what was this dispute about, why was it necessary, but hindsight, sadly, is one of those things that is rarely available when you need it, and it serves precious little point, I would respectfully suggest, to try it now, hopefully, now that the dispute is beginning to end, and to accuse management of being entirely responsible or the union for being entirely responsible, and I am not going to do that.
Q34 Mr Bone: So in fact they were both to blame?
Mr Hutton: As I said, this industrial action should never have started.
