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Are you listening yet, Mr Crozier? By Paul Haste on the picket line

30-Oct-09

Standing in solidarity with striking post workers on the picket line at central London’s huge Mount Pleasant mail centre, Mr Ward explained that ‘post workers have already lost 60,000 jobs and another 60,000 are at risk, while the remaining full-time workers fear being forced to accept part-time positions.’

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A Postal Strike In Britain Is The War At Home By John Pilger

22-Oct-09

The postal workers’ struggle is as vital for democracy as any national event in recent years. The campaign against them is part of a historic shift from the last vestiges of political democracy in Britain to a corporate world of insecurity and war. If the privateers running the Post Office are allowed to win, the regression that now touches all lives bar the wealthy will quicken its pace. A third of British children now live in low-income or impoverished families. One in five young people is denied hope of a decent job or education.

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“Royal Mail secret plot with ‘the Shareholder’ (ie. the Labour government)

18-Oct-09

17 October, 2009 — Red Postie
BBC Newsnight on Thursday revealed a leaked confidential document spilling the beans on a Royal Mail plan to impose cuts, provoke a strike and smash the union. This blows a hole in their spin over the past couple of weeks about an uncooperative union!
The document, marked ‘in strictest confidence’ and [...]

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