Postal Executive News Today

For rejecting the Communication Workers Union’s sell out of the dispute involving all postal workers, Fleet members have been left hung out to dry for the best part of a year.

Postal workers made clear that the issues which “count” for them had been trampled underfoot by the CWU bureaucracy in foisting a sell-out agreement on them last July to bring an end to their year long fight.

Ward was not going to be allowed to profess opposition to the “deliberate dismantling of the USO” without postal workers indicting him and the CWU Postal Executive for their complicity in the collapse of the letters service and destruction of jobs, terms and conditions.

Up to 6,000 higher education workers in the Unison union struck on Monday and Tuesday at 17 universities in England.

This dispute has brought postal workers face to face with the CWU’s transformation into an arm of Royal Mail management.

A postal worker from Newcastle writes, “The CWU have been given a bigger room at our workplace with a flat screen TV, fridge freezer and sofa. All mod cons, they are being bought!”

Before any member has cast a single vote on the deal proposed to end the national dispute on the surrender terms offered by the CWU leadership, it is being treated as an accomplished fact.

Corporatism asserts a common interest between workers and employers and means the total subordination of the working class to the profit dictates of the company. The bitter experience of the past 15 years shows that there is no such  “common interest.”

The return to strikes by nurses’ union RCN, from 8pm on 30 April until 2 May, is an important opportunity to revive and accelerate the pay fight in the NHS. Unite members in various NHS trusts, including several ambulance trusts, will also strike on 1 and 2 May. If GMB members in the NHS also reject the pay offer in their ballot closing 28 April (possible, despite the GMB leadership recommending acceptance), their members in ambulance trusts and elsewhere in the NHS could also strike, official...

This is a root and branch restructuring of Royal Mail, creating a “flexible” low-wage workforce to compete with global logistics giants including Amazon, UPS and Evri.