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Published: 30 October 2009

Threat to postal jobs

• WE are a group of postal workers and union representatives.
We want the public to know the truth about our dispute.
Royal Mail bosses are hiding behind the word “modernisation”.
What they mean is unprecedented cuts in jobs, services, pay and conditions.
Postal workers face threats to job security – some 63,000 jobs have been lost in the last five years. Royal Mail want to replace most
full-time with part-time jobs or casual labour and to carry out compulsory redundancies.
We are increasingly pressured to fulfil impossible work targets by a bullying management. We are, in addition, expected to work longer hours for no extra pay. As for the public, they face a less reliable service with later deliveries.
Finally, we are facing creeping privatisation – a business based on profit, whereas we aim to deliver a public service based on need.
Tony Davis
CWU North West London area Jim Kirwan
Branch secretary N/NW London CWU
Gerry Lecointe
CWU Kentish Town Royal Mail
Lee McDonald
CWU rep Kentish Town
Royal Mail

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