Future of Royal Mail Emergency Motion
by jontandy on September 30, 2009
in CWU, Election, General, Labour Party, Parliamentary, Personal
I am currently at the Labour 2009 conference in Brighton and I will be speaking at the Future of Royal Mail Emergency motion today to discuss the issues faced by the business.
I will be calling on the government to start cross party talks with the Royal Mail and the CWU Union to discuss the future of the Royal Mail and try to resolve the problems that they currently face including that of pensions and recent industrial action.
I have been made aware that the motion will be televised on BBC Parliament (Channel 504 on Sky) in the UK at around 3:45PM today.
Update:
Unfortunately I did not get to speak due to time constraints but I am very happy with motion being passed unanimously at conference. It is all very good news for postal workers throughout the country
I think what we don’t need is “good news for postal workers”, we need them to stop striking and let Royal Mail get on with modernising! Don’t the postal workers realise that they’re making themselves unpopular with customers and loosing small businesses money as well as sabotaging the future of their jobs?
Now competition that has been introduced in the postal market, many profitable areas have been taken by rivals leaving Royal Mail cash-starved. The government should consider removing the competition added previously and to realise that Royal Mail is an important national utility.
The government needs to put more pressure on Royal Mail to force through modernisation regardless of what the workers (who seem to strike all the time) think. Reading the CWU page on the strikes makes me think they don’t have much of an argument against the plans.
This is a time of recession and where people are having to go without. The postal workers don’t really seem to understand this, and I hope the Royal Mail and its government shareholders look carefully at their plans and manage to salvage a future.