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A general view of Royal Mail vans
ROYAL MAIL’S referral to regulators for failing to deliver letters six days a week is “vindication of why staff have lost total confidence” in the firm’s leadership, a union leader said today.
Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Dave Ward welcomed the business, energy and industrial strategy committee’s decision to refer the strike-hit privatised company to Ofcom, saying the “deliberate running down of the universal service obligation (USO) has actually worsened” in recent months.
The cross-party group said the 500-year-old firm has “systematically failed to deliver” the statutory nationwide obligation and accused chief executive Simon Thompson of giving “not wholly accurate” answers to MPs in two committee hearings.
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
