A group of Socialist Worker supporters in the CWU union met last weekend to discuss the way forward for the crucial dispute that postal workers’ are involved in.
Royal Mail management is pushing ahead with the introduction of a change in start times for delivery workers.
The CWU has called a national demonstration and rally in London on Tuesday 21 August to increase the pressure on management as part of the next round of action.
A clear pattern is emerging of Royal Mail management attempting to use disciplinary procedures to attack CWU union reps.
Royal Mail has been forced to apologise after sending a letter to the managers of sub-post offices warning that they would lose money if they didn’t toe the official line on justifiying post office closures.
During a week of official function strikes, a spate of unofficial post strikes broke out across Britain last week.
The fourth solid postal strike brought services to a halt across the country last week. Socialist Worker received reports from the picket lines.
The next round of post strikes organised by the CWU postal workers’ union in Royal Mail are still set to take place from Thursday 9 August. The strikes start in mail centres at 7 pm.
Future days of strike action by the different functions in Royal Mail are as follows:
Post workers in Glasgow and the west of Scotland have voted to end their unofficial action and return to work. More than 700 postal workers attended a two hour mass meeting in Glasgow. They debated the way forward for their dispute as well as putting questions to CWU union officials and voting at the end of the meeting by a proportion of around five to two to return to work. No agreement has been reached with management about the terms of returning to work.
A national demonstration and rally in support of the Royal Mail dispute will be held on Tuesday 21 August.
