In the Southend area of Essex delivery post workers are doing the job properly – and it’s causing chaos.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation released two reports last week. One showed that the British public says the gap between rich and poor is too large.
"Suspension should only occur when it is necessary to prevent the risk of further breaches of conduct, to protect employees, property or mail, or to protect Royal Mail’s good image and standing in the community." The Royal Mail Conduct Code
Every public sector worker faces the same attacks that postal workers are fighting.
Everyone needs to get behind the postal workers. If at all possible they need to be fighting alongside them. The strikes are magnificent – overwhelmingly supported, militant and defiant. They have united men and women, black and white, young and old.
Postal workers are engaged in the most important battle this country has seen for many years. Every worker in Britain will feel the implications of its outcome. We are fighting a vicious management that sees this as a crucial confrontation.
The CWU union has announced new dates for post strikes. The proposed programme for industrial action over two weeks on a functional/site basis is as follows:
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A very big issue in the post dispute is the change to delivery office start times that managers are threatening to implement on or around 13 August.
The post dispute is at a crucial stage, and it matters for every worker in Britain. Two hugely successful stoppages have produced not the slightest movement from Royal Mail bosses Allan Leighton and Adam Crozier.
