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Solidarity with Postal Workers |
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Solidarity offers unconditional and unequivocal support to postal workers the length and breadth of Britain on their second day of strike action in their ongoing dispute with the Royal Mail.
Despite enjoying the overwhelming support of their members for strike action, Royal Mail senior management still refuses to enter negotiations with the CWU. This reflects the arrogance of senior and executive management that exists right across the private and public sector in this country today, a state of affairs directly linked to New Labour's commitment to the war against workers that was unleashed by Thatcher when she came to power back in 1979.
Royal Mail Chief Executive, Adam Crozier, who earns an obscene £1 million per year, a wage it would take the average postal worker 60 years to earn, is committed to the government's plans to privatise the Royal Mail. This is the real reason they have refused to negotiate. They seek confrontation with the union because their intention is to break its strength. It is the very same approach we have seen taken by senior management in the NHS, the civil service, in education - in every sphere of the public and private sector we are seeing management on salaries that are the highest in western Europe continue to try and bully and intimidate their workers into accepting wages and working conditions that are completely unacceptable in a civilised society.
We commend the CWU and their members for the principled stance they have taken in their dispute and we fully endorse their demands, which are: an above inflation pay rise with no strings; a shorter working week; no changes to the pension scheme; removal of the existing senior management at Royal Mail; no post office closures; and a return to a fully funded public service.
As in any industrial dispute, Solidarity takes the view that the CWU and their members are taking this strike action on behalf of all workers. New Labour, despite the recent change in prime minister, are determined to continue to line the pockets of the rich and in the process deepen inequality in our society to levels that haven't been seen since Victorian times.
We salute the decision of NHS workers at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh not to touch any mail during the postal workers' dispute, and we look forward to similar actions being taken in support of the postal workers the length and breadth of the country.
History has shown time and again that when the workers unite they are an unstoppable force.
We are Solidarity and we believe in taking sides.
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