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Workers sort cards and letters at the Royal Mail Peterborough Mail Centre
ROYAL Mail is plagued by the “disease” of thousands of new recruits leaving after a year or less in the job, postal workers warned today.
Delegates at the Communications Workers Union (CWU) conference voted in favour of a proposal for the union to meet with postal bosses to “re-energise and strengthen” new entrants’ terms of employment and workplace coaching agreements.
The workers argue that precarious employment and poor pay leads to staff, many of whom are young mothers, leaving in droves.
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
BFAWU general secretary SARAH WOOLLEY highlights a catalogue of health and safety failings at the Mowi fish processing plant in Fife
