Fight Like Hell for the Living: A Year of Struggle in UK Call Centres After a year of disruption, reorganisation and loss in the UK’s call centres, this article surveys…
Dear Granny Smith - TEFL lesson plan A lesson plan adapted from the first chapter of the highly recommended book Dear Granny Smith: A Letter from your Postman about strikes,…
How do we fight privatisation? Some quick thoughts on privatisation and how workers can effectively challenge it.
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 Staff at a London delivery office have taken unlawful strike action and won the reinstatement of a…
When Royal Mail modernisation means a worse service - Roy Mayall Postal worker Roy Mayall describes the reality of Royal Mail's much-heralded 'modernisation', and…
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…
Why the Royal Mail Deal is Junk Roy Mayall on why the new agreement between the CWU and Royal Mail is bad for workers and bad for customers.
Somerset postal workers walk out over suspensions 100 Royal Mail workers walked out on unofficial strike on 9 February against the suspension of two colleagues.
Posties, tippex and ballots: the 1996 postal strikes As Subversion #20 was produced, postal workers in Britain were in the middle of a long running dispute with the state. This article helped…
Loopholes - Royal Mail and the union A Royal Mail worker describes the problems with the union and their motivations in the aftermath of the 2009 strikes.
Privatising the post: too much, too late Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt details the turbulent history of government attempts to sell off the postal service and how consultants conspired to…
