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Postal workers have voted three to one in favour of a national strike over a dispute with Royal Mail over future job security and working conditions.
Royal Mail say that, faced with an annual drop of 10% in their core business of delivering parcels and letters, they need to modernise, and even the Communication Workers Union say that they understand this but that ‘it needs to be done in a way that protects workers’.
It’s hard to understand what a national stoppage will achieve except vast inconvenience and expense to ordinary people, businesses and the economy in general. Perhaps the British Chambers of Commerce have it right when they say the strike is ‘akin to a death wish’.
Personally, I doubt that a strike will take place. For one thing it would be ruinous for the postal workers themselves, let alone the country. Secondly, if Royal Mail dig their heels in and risk a major strike, then other companies may well follow suit faced with their own demands for higher wages, better working conditions and protected pensions.
Will they, won’t they? We will have to wait and see.
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Postal workers have voted three to one in favour of a national strike over a dispute with Royal Mail over future job security and working conditions.
Royal Mail say that, faced with an annual drop of 10% in their core business of delivering parcels and letters, they need to modernise, and even the Communication Workers Union say that they understand this but that ‘it needs to be done in a way that protects workers’.
It’s hard to understand what a national stoppage will achieve except vast inconvenience and expense to ordinary people, businesses and the economy in general. Perhaps the British Chambers of Commerce have it right when they say the strike is ‘akin to a death wish’.
Personally, I doubt that a strike will take place. For one thing it would be ruinous for the postal workers themselves, let alone the country. Secondly, if Royal Mail dig their heels in and risk a major strike, then other companies may well follow suit faced with their own demands for higher wages, better working conditions and protected pensions.
Will they, won’t they? We will have to wait and see.
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