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UNDER-PRESSURE Royal Mail bosses are employing “unusual uses of the English language to give inaccurate statements,” MPs said today in a feisty committee hearing.
The privatised firm’s top brass were hauled back in front of the cross-party business, energy and industrial strategy committee after accusations that they had given “misleading” evidence during a hearing last month.
Company chief executive Simon Thompson, operations development director Ricky McAulay and Royal Mail Group chairman Keith Williams are deliberately ignoring the strike-hit company’s statutory universal service obligation (USO) to deliver letters six days a week, focusing on parcels instead, MPs said.
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
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
