Wildcats in the post
Article about recent wildcat strikes and disputes in the UK post office from Subversion in 1996.
Wildcat strike at Royal Mail delivery office gets the goods
Submitted by Django on Jun 10 2011 20:24
Staff at a London delivery office have taken unlawful strike action and won the reinstatement of a fellow worker.
Around 90 postal workers at the N1 sorting office took unofficial strike action yesterday in support of a longstanding worker suspended for “wilful delay of the mail”.
After three hours of strike action managers caved in and reinstated the worker. “It’s a complete victory,” said Mark Dolan, a senior CWU union rep in north London.
Sorting out the postal strike - Joe Jacobs
Submitted by Kronstadt_Kid on Sep 4 2010 23:18
Joe Jacobs investigates the 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike, which was the country's first national postal strike. Published as Solidarity pamphlet number 36.
This pamphlet was written by a worker recently dismissed from the Post Office as a result of an injury on the job. He had worked in the Post Office for some time and remained in close contact with the strikers throughout the dispute.
Background
The best management talent - Roy Mayall
Roy Mayall on the latest round of managerial pay hikes at Royal Mail.
The Royal Mail’s Annual Report was published on 3 June, containing details of its executive pay for the previous year. According to the figures, Adam Crozier, the retiring chief executive, received more than £2.4m in the year 2009-10.
When Royal Mail modernisation means a worse service - Roy Mayall
Submitted by Django on Jul 20 2010 16:48
Postal worker Roy Mayall describes the reality of Royal Mail's much-heralded 'modernisation', and the upcoming further 'deregulation' of the postal sector.
Last week we had our first batch of walk-sequenced letters through. These are the letters sorted by the new multimillion-pound walk-sequencing machines that the Royal Mail has brought in as part of their new modernisation and investment programme.
Natural Monopoly - Roy Mayall
Submitted by Django on Jul 19 2010 16:51
Self-described 'overworked postie' Roy Mayall discusses the coalition government's plans to privatise the postal service.
It appears that the Royal Mail is to be sold off. According to the Daily Mail, it will be transformed into a ‘John Lewis-style trust’ by the autumn. John Lewis is a chain of department stores whose employees are also partners. The employees own shares, but these are held in trust, so cannot be sold off when the employee leaves the company.
Royal Mail deal: a post mortem
After 18 days’ strike action in London in 2009 the Communication Workers’ Union leadership voted for a return to work. As one reader of The Commune explains, the subsequent outcome has demoralised many:
by ‘Postman Pat’
I work at the West End Delivery Office in west London. After all the voluntary early retirements there’s along the lines of 300 workers on the floor, of those just 40-50 on nights.
Why the Royal Mail Deal is Junk
Submitted by Django on Mar 9 2010 07:35
Roy Mayall on why the new agreement between the CWU and Royal Mail is bad for workers and bad for customers.
According to the official communiques, both sides in the postal workers' dispute are delighted with the complex deal that has been ironed out over the past weeks. The CWU is calling it a 6.9% pay rise over three years; the management is hailing the agreement as opening the way to "transformation" of the business.
Somerset postal workers walk out over suspensions
Submitted by Steven. on Feb 15 2010 17:29
100 Royal Mail workers walked out on unofficial strike on 9 February against the suspension of two colleagues.
This is Somerset reported that More than 100 postal workers in Somerset staged a wildcat walkout yesterday in a row over the suspension of two colleagues and threatened cuts.
Employees at the Bridgwater Delivery Office, one of the biggest in the West, took to the picket line in a bid to force a rethink on the issue by Royal Mail.
Posties, tippex and ballots: the 1996 postal strikes
Submitted by Juan Conatz on Feb 3 2010 06:31
As Subversion #20 was produced, postal workers in Britain were in the middle of a long running dispute with the state. This article helped analyse the sell-out in preparation by the union. From Subversion #20 (1996)
When will Royal Mail be crushed like a snail
Under the foot of a postie on a crisp Autumn morn?
And is our dream of transcending the Unions entirely forlorn?
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