The British press love to lay the blame for every labour dispute, every work-to-rule, every strike and all of industry’s woes on the people who actually do the work that produces the wealth.
Take the British Postal Service, The Royal Mail, the public service had a long tradition of excellence from the days when Queen Victoria was on the throne. Excellence that is, until the Government and management decided to start tinkering with it in their stampede to hand all public-owned services to their friends in the private sector.
The press have recognized this time that the Royal Mail management are responsible for intransigence and manipulation in an effort to break the postal workers union, the CWU (Communication Workers Union). But they can’t quite lay all the blame on their peers, oh no, it’s the workers’ fault as well of course.
They are so stubborn screams the Oligarch-owned London Evening Standard and other British papers almost all singing to the same tune. They won’t do more work for less money or accept a reduction in benefits. They refuse to modernise they shout.
Often repeated by the papers are the Post office’s lies about reduced mail volume. Letters are apparently taking a hit at ten-percent a year but in this day of on-line commerce and therefore delivered goods the volumes of small packets and parcels are up.
So what would be left if our Post Office disappears. Well, there’s the useless DHL for a start and UPS who treat all packages as suspect and can destroy your new not-yet-arrived plasma TV quicker than an army disposal team. Then there’s the Home Delivery Network they can deliver our mail instead, yes? You’ll be lucky, they should be renamed Home Delivery NOTwork.
By ‘modernise’ the Post Office means ‘privatise’ of course, but ‘modernise’ kind of hides from the general public the real reasons for the Government supported stand-off. To NOT modernise sounds so unreasonable of the ‘posties’, how dare they live in the past expecting secure and well paid employment. How dare they expect a decent holiday, reasonable work-hours and a pension when they retire. Selfish devils!
Of course the fat-cat bastard that sits on his arse at the top, A dam Crazier… oops Adam Crozier, has to manage on a measly £9 million a year, poor dear. That much, would you believe, to run a service that ran very well for decades under the management of public servants.
The CWU is campaigning hard against the governments intention to privatise Royal Mail.
At a packed National Rally and Lobby on Tuesday February 24th 2009 in Central Hall, Westminster, Political and Trade Union figures spoke in defense of keeping the Royal Mail a public service to a highly animated audience of hundreds of postal workers supporters and the general public.
We hear from some of the speakers at the rally as well as members of the public all of whom tell us that the Royal Mail is NOT FOR SALE
See more at CWUTV.org.
Support the British postal workers, write to your MP demand that the Post Office stays public.
Email Adam Crozier and tell him how much you value our ‘posties’: adam.crozier@royalmail.com ‘
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