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Postal workers at the support group meeting in Somers Town |
Posties’ plea: Strike staff want support
A SUPPORT group has been set up to end the “demonisation” of local postal workers.
The Central London Postworkers Support Group want the community to get behind the Royal Mail staff who have lost three weeks of pay over three months of strikes.
The action has crippled deliveries to homes and businesses leading to intense media criticism of members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU).
At the inaugural meeting of the Central London Postworkers Support Group in Somers Town on Tuesday, Mount Pleasant area rep Merlin Reader said staff needed “physical and mental sustenance” following a wave of negative publicity.
He added: “I have lost a third of my pension, and 20 per cent of staff have been lost at my office. We can no longer get the post out – there are not enough staff on the ground.”
The support group agreed to organise office and street collections and to bring a bit of “razzmatazz” to the strike with a series of benefit events.
A national postal strike is expected to shut down all delivery offices over two days next week and Mr Reader said the Christmas post would suffer.
Camden’s postal workers are out on strike today (Thursday). |
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Your comments:
How stupid - if postal workers do not stop with their counter-productive strikes, they will continue to loose major contracts, major business and this may lead to mass redundancies in the future... A weird way to behave in a recession and very sad for those businesses who rely on postal services. These union bosses must be out off their minds - and all those who follow...
G. Arend
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