Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) demonstrate outside the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh, Scotland
ROYAL MAIL bosses are deliberately undermining the firm’s commitment to universal services so they can impose gig economy-style working conditions, the Communication Workers Union charged today.
General secretary Dave Ward told MPs that the 500-year-old public service, which is obliged to deliver letters six days a week at a uniform price nationwide, is at risk in the hands of bosses who are “intimidating and threatening workers.”
The union is embroiled in a bitter six-month dispute with the privatised company over threats to cut jobs, attack working conditions and impose yet more take-home pay cuts.
Royal Mail’s job quality has plummeted, with gruelling hours, two-tier pay, intense surveillance, and poor work-life balance for postal workers — but our union is fighting back, writes CWU branch secretary JOHN CARSON
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
