The CWU’s postal executive yesterday (Thursday) unanimously endorsed the attached agreement. This agreement has been brought about by the strength of the union’s national strike ballot and the overwhelming support for the strikes. CWU/Royal Mail Interim Agreement The interim agreement contains significant developments and concessions that have mainly emerged in the last few days. The i...
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SocialistUnity on 6th Nov 2009 (via socialistunity.com)
Over the next couple of days postal workers will be on strike. They are striking because Royal Mail have left them with no choice. Management intransigence in the face of a simple union request - talks at the conciliation service ACAS - means the workforce had no option. Compass has released a statement today - Saving
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SocialistUnity on 22nd Oct 2009 (via socialistunity.com)
ROYAL MAIL 13.01.2009 Smith, Geraldine That this House notes that the Labour Party Conference 2008, with the backing of Ministers, supported a vision of a wholly publicly-owned, integrated Royal Mail Group; welcomes the conclusion of the Hooper Report that the current universal service obligation offered by Royal Mail, including six days a week delivery, must be protected and that the primary duty...
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GrimmerUpNorth on 25th Feb 2009 (via grimmerupnorth.blogspot.com)
The Government is ruling out privatising Royal Mail, days before the publication of a review into the future of the postal group.
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SkyNews on 15th Dec 2008 (via news.sky.com)
In the last ten working days the Royal Mail has delivered letters to my house twice. On those two occasions I received my large piles of snail mail in the late afternoon. I also receive, on average, two letters a...
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CentreRight on 8th Oct 2009 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
The privatisation value of the Royal Mail could be damaged by the threatened strike, warns Jonathan Djanogly, the shadow business minister
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FT on 19th Oct 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
Thousands of Royal Mail managers are to be balloted over possible strike action in a dispute over job cuts.
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BBCPolitics on 25th Oct 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
The impending strike by Royal Mail workers is a wonderful opportunity to deal with a long standing issue... the essential obsolescence of the whole notion of state mail monopolies. In this era of highly efficient competing international courier companies, why bother with state letter carriers at all? Do not 'privatise' the Royal Mail as was planned earlier, instead make the workers (very...
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Samizdata on 15th Oct 2009 (via samizdata.net)
Royal Mail will suffer long term damage if the planned national postal strike goes ahead, Gordon Brown has warned.
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BBCPolitics on 14th Oct 2009 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Royal Mail could be allowed to drop its guarantee to deliver post anywhere in the UK six days a week if it becomes too costly, the Government has admitted.
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Telegraph on 30th Oct 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
THE coalition government's plans to privatise Royal Mail have left a loophole under which the universal service guarantee of six-days-a-week deliveries could be downgraded
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Scotsman on 12th Dec 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
