Cumbernauld delivery office: How the CWU is enforcing Royal Mail’s USO reform pilots
The workplace “briefing” held at Cumbernauld presented a display of unity between management and Communication Workers Union reps.
•Tony Robson
Royal Mail postal workers in the UK
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Royal Mail workers in Scotland speak against USO pilots: “The CWU is trying to dress this up”
A worker at Cumbernauld delivery office told WSWS, “We were not consulted about this pilot, only the vote on duty patterns. The majority voted for 2 in 5 Saturdays off, which is an improvement, but it does not make up for longer hours in the week and added work.”
•Tony Robson
Postal worker speaks on USO reform pilots: “A tripartite attack on jobs by Royal Mail, Ofcom and the CWU”
“Our work is not an ‘unfair financial burden’ on the company, as claimed by Ofcom. It is a proud and honest occupation that should be generously remunerated.”
•Our correspondent
Postal worker exposes underhand dismantling of the USO: “Royal Mail, Ofcom and the CWU are involved in a major cover-up”
“Members wish to know why their offices are not adhering with the USO when they are not included in the agreed 37 pilots scheme.”
•Our correspondent
Royal Mail workers at Mt Pleasant and Salisbury condemn USO pilots: “It can’t keep going on like this”
A CWU Live online event last week hosted by Novara Media’s Michael Walker, saw the union’s Outdoor Assistant Secretary Tony Bouch parrot claims that the USO pilots are to improve quality of service and alleviate workloads.
•Our reporters
Ofcom’s “package of reforms”: a wrecking ball against the mail service and postal workers’ jobs and conditions
The regulator Ofcom claims USO reform will improve “Quality of Service” for customers. But how do these claims stack up?
•Tony Robson
Workers kept in dark at Royal Mail USO pilot sites: “We ask questions... they don’t tell us anything”
The Universal Service Obligation (USO) “reform pilots” at 37 Royal Mail delivery offices across the UK are being imposed by the Communication Workers Union, Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group and the Labour government.
•Our reporters
Royal Mail workers speak on USO pilots: “They have already started to gut the mail service”
Postal workers have denounced the USO pilots as a bureaucratic stitch-up: “We only had a management-union briefing. There has been no workplace meeting with us organised by the CWU, it is very undemocratic.”
•Our correspondents
Call workplace meetings at Royal Mail delivery offices to oppose USO pilots!
We will not be used as guinea pigs for Kretinsky’s plans to slash thousands of jobs and extend our already punishing workloads by walks of up to six hours, in a wrecking operation against the mail service.
•Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee (UK)
Communication Workers Union welcomes Ofcom’s announcement gutting Royal Mail USO
Delivery workers have slammed the pilot scheme. It is being introduced over their heads to bulldoze through Royal Mail’s £300 million a year cost-cutting agenda, eviscerating the mail service and eliminating thousands of jobs.
•Tony Robson
Postal workers speak on USO pilots at Royal Mail: “There is only one way it’s going, it's Amazon, and it will be all about parcels”
One worker said, “We have to fight this. I agree with your demand. Thanks for the information—no one else is telling us what these changes could mean. We have heard nothing about the USO changes.”
•Our reporters
Oppose the USO pilots imposed by CWU and Royal Mail!
Collective opposition must be organised against the bureaucratic imposition of the “USO reform” pilots by the Communication Workers Union hierarchy and Royal Mail management at 37 delivery offices across the UK.
•Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee
Postal workers meet to discuss fightback against Kretinsky’s CWU and Labour-backed takeover of Royal Mail
Royal Mail workers at the meeting were joined by postal workers from Canada and the United States who brought greetings from their rank-and-file committees, which are affiliated to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and File-Committees.
•Our reporters
Postal workers at Mount Pleasant oppose CWU Framework Agreement with Kretinsky's takeover of Royal Mail
A World Socialist Web Site reporting team campaigned on Friday at the Mount Pleasant mail centre in London for the online meeting on Sunday of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee, “For a rank-and-file fightback against Kretinsky takeover and defence of the mail service.”
•Our reporters
Postal workers slam CWU “Framework Agreement” endorsing Kretinsky’s takeover of Royal Mail
We are publishing the response of postal workers to the WSWS article “The CWU’s ‘framework agreement’ backs Kretinsky’s Royal Mail takeover”, which subjected to close scrutiny the 12-page document drawn up after months of private talks between CWU leader Dave Ward and EP Group executives.
•Our reporters
Tony Robson addresses SEP (UK) Seventh National Congress on the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
“The potential in the situation must be acted upon consciously by the cadre, in a deeper turn into the working class”
We are publishing the speech given by SEP National Committee member Tony Robson at the Seventh National Congress of the SEP (UK) on the work of the IWA-RFC in the UK.
•Tony Robson
The CWU’s “framework agreement” backs Kretinsky’s Royal Mail takeover
Communication Workers Union bureaucrats will join a new Advisory Committee that will create what amounts to a partnership between the CWU and the billionaire who is taking over Royal Mail.
•Tony Robson, Laura Tiernan
Unelected Canada Industrial Relations Board orders postal workers back to work from Tuesday
Postal workers must defy this anti-democratic edict, but this requires the mobilization of the broadest sections of the working class—public and private sector alike—across Canada and internationally.
•Roger Jordan
Communication Workers Union has paved the way for Kretinsky takeover of Royal Mail
The CWU bureaucracy blazed the trail for the takeover by colluding in dismantling the mail service under the guise of Universal Service Obligation “reform”.
•Tony Robson
Postal workers oppose CWU-Labour government collusion with Kretinsky Royal Mail takeover
There is major disaffection with the CWU bureaucracy among postal workers, but this must take an organised form in the workplace and be united across the Royal Mail network.
•Tony Robson