Stop sell off in Royal Mail!

Submitted by AWL on 27 November, 2002 - 1:01

By a postal worker

Royal Mail still want to sell off its Cash Handling & Distribution section. In a ballot of postal workers affected by their union, The Communication Workers Union, there was a 95% yes vote for strike action.
This sell-off would be the most significant privatisation in the Post Office so far and has huge implications for all postal workers. Under the sell-off plan workers would not have the option to revert to Operational Postal Grades, take early retirement or even leave under the a new redundancy package.

Royal Mail have now dropped their plan to sell the business to Securicor. Forty per cent of CHD staff are ex-Securicor and they had vowed never to go back to working for them! Last month saw wildcat strikes sweep through depots across the country which the union was keen to stop. The threat of sell-off remains while the union negotiates with management. The sell-off will give Royal Mail a £350 million cash injection.

All Mail Centre staff are still expected to be balloted on the issue. Rank-and-file activists need to bring CHD staff to Delivery Offices to let postmen and women know why its vital to shut down the whole of the Post Office in order to beat back cowboys like Securicor for good. That's the only way to stop this campaign being sold down the river by the union leadership. With a victory in CHD, postalworkers would have a chance to reverse the 49% selloff of Romec - this fight is for everyone.

Resign Sir Toby!
The FBU London Regional Committee is calling on TUC President Tony Young to immediately resign from the discredited Bain committee, and is asking the CWU and the TUC to make the same call.
Perhaps CWU members can urge their union to make this call.

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