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DESPITE taking record-breaking profits of £758 million in 2021 and paying £547m to shareholders, Royal Mail’s incompetent management wants to cut services and tens of thousands of jobs in their efforts to run down and asset-strip our postal service and diminish the value of postal workers’ jobs.
As Ian Lavery pointed out to Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson during the BEIS select committee this week, to not even think about rewarding those who provided the profit and instead immediately dole it out to shareholders, is extraordinary.
The board is set on turning a beloved national institution into a gig-economy-style parcel courier, complete with self-employed workers carrying tracker devices instructing them to go further and faster.
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