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The railway unions have never stopped attacking the privitisation of their industry. They were right and now the industry is about to return to the public.
Only because the franchises failed financially, and nothing to do with the unions.
The water industry is on the verge of returning to the public. Thames is the canary in the mine for postal workers.
Again, only because of Thames Water's mismanagement. Then again, Starmer has already said his gov't (ie us) can't afford to renationalise it anyway. Other water companies aren't failing.
It's business model is about to be replicated in the postal industry. The USO will return to the public.
Tripe. People need water and many need transport. No-one cares who delivers the weekly pizza flyers.
That said, all those privatisations were a mistake from Day 1.
Network Rail is yet another example of greed over provision. The CWU and it's adherents always choose to over look this company because it's proof that public provision overrides all the rules. If the government can take back Network Rail it can take and will take back the USO. Why should that happen whilst the capitalists make off with the profit?
Numerous water companies are already in public hands and Thames will be the same.
Millions of people care about the USO and what we do.
Lets be honest. The hatred of renationalisation by the executive of the CWU, and their pyschophants in this forum, is about two things. One is the mindset of the executive who won't do what the parliament of the Union has told them to do because they think they know better and two, is the hatred that the executives hold for public ownership as they historically believed the government ripped postal workers off.
"The leadership will sabotage the fight and only make the slightest move under fear of powerful working class action" - Des Warren
The one thing that done the most damage was being forced to introduce DSA
Fully agreed. It's been twenty years and only now is it being treated like second class having already eaten us from the inside out like a parasitic wasp. The time to act was right before privatisation when it crossed 50% (2012/13 annual report, p8). Having left the European Union, the government has the power to repeal the legislation that forced access; thought the damage is done and no-one is proposing it.
The consequences were forseen as far back as the mid 90s.