By the early 1970s there were 12 million trade unionists, organised by a network of 300,000 shop stewards.
Postal workers are escalating their battle against Royal Mail’s attacks on their jobs and conditions, and against management bullying, with two national strikes.
It has become very clear as to where the blame lies for the postal dispute – with Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier and Lord Peter Mandelson, the dimwit duo.
Bullying by Royal Mail managers has reached epidemic proportions – and is a major factor behind the strikes that have swept Britain.
A part time soldier awaiting deployment to Afghanistan is among CWU union reps being targeted for disciplinary action by Royal Mail.
Students at Stow College in Glasgow have been doing weekly collections around the campus. They then take the money to their local picket line at the Baird Street depot.
Around 120,000 postal workers took strike action last week and CWU union activists across Britain told Socialist Worker that their action remained absolutely solid.
Protesters against Royal Mail’s attempt to set up a mass scabbing operation found more than they bargained for when they leafleted casual workers at the company’s "outhouse" operation in Dartford, Kent, on Wednesday of last week.
Royal Mail’s attempt to hire 30,000 casual workers to help break the strikes hit trouble last week as job centres refused to advertise their vacancies.
‘Chancellor Alastair Darling found another £40 billion to hand over to the banks this week.
Rumours of a deal to end the postal workers’ strike abounded as Socialist Worker went to press, while talks between the union and Royal Mail continued.
The Sun newspaper got it spectacularly wrong when it attacked CWU union deputy general secretary Dave Ward on Monday of this week.
