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Royal Mail denies delaying letter delivery to prioritise lucrative parcel contracts across UK
ROYAL Mail has denied it is prioritising lucrative parcel contracts over letter deliveries as many parts of the UK are suffering from a slow postal service.
While insiders at two major sorting offices told i the privatised postal group was focusing on parcel deliveries in order to fight off competition from other providers, Royal Mail said the reasons for tackling parcels first were due to Covid-enforced staff shortages and a requirement to clear space at its distribution centres.
One Royal Mail manager based at a mail centre in the north west of England said staff had been instructed to prioritise parcel deliveries ahead of letters as Covid-19 lockdowns had led to a surge in online orders.
Unions turn up heat on Silicon Valley in fight for transparency
Big tech workers are looking to unionise as concerns mount over their employers ethics
16 January 2021 • 6:00pm
Google employees staged a walkout in San Francisco in 2018 over sexual misconduct allegations against executives.
Credit: Eric Risberg/ AP
Among Silicon Valley executives, Wesley McEnany could be public enemy number one. The healthcare union veteran has been slowly convincing workers at the most valuable companies in the world to form a union.
McEnany works for the Campaign to Organise Digital Employees (Code), a group established in 2020, and has been busy virtually meeting with workers with the help of video game engineer Emma Kinema. Last year, a legal consultancy firm warned tech executives the pair may be cornering their employees.
CWU shocked and disturbed by resignation of Sapo CFO 3 months into job The senior executive cited personal reasons for his departure but the union is not buying this. A South African Post Office branch. Picture: @PostofficeSa/Twitter
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JOHANNESBURG - The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said that it was shocked and disturbed by the resignation of the Post Office s CFO just three months into the job.
The CWU confirmed that Khathutshelo Ramukumba resigned last month after he was put in charge of the cash-strapped entity s finances in October.
The senior executive cited personal reasons for his departure but the union is not buying this.