British Post Office & Postal Workers Under Attack

The British tabloid press love to lay the blame for every labor dispute, every work-to-rule, every strike and all of industry's woes on the people who actually do the work that produces the wealth.

Take the British Postal Service a public service that has a long tradition of excellence from the days when Queen Victoria was sitting on the throne. Excellence that is, until this Government and the Post Office management decided to start tinkering with it in their stampede to hand all public-owned services to their friends in the private sector.

The press do recognize this time that the Royal Mail management are being intransigent and manipulative in an effort to break the postal workers union, the Communication Workers Union. But they cannot quite lay all the blame on their peers, oh no, it's the workers' fault as well of course.

They are so stubborn, screams the Oligarch-owned London Evening Standard and other British papers almost all singing to the same tune. They won't do more work for less money or accept a reduction in benefits. They refuse to modernize they shout.

Often repeated by the papers are the Post Office's claims about reduced mail volume. Letters are apparently taking a hit at ten-percent a year but in this day of on-line commerce and therefore delivered goods the volumes of small packets and parcels are up.

By modernize the Post Office means privatize of course, but modernize kind of hides from the general public the real reasons for the Government supported stand-off. To NOT modernize sounds so unreasonable of the posties, how dare they live in the past expecting secure and well paid employment. How dare they expect a decent holiday, reasonable work-hours and a pension when they retire. Selfish devils!

Of course the man at the top, Adam Crozier, who wants these reforms manages on a measly £9 million a year, poor dear. That much, would you believe, to run a service that ran very well for decades under the management of public servants.

The British public would do well to protest to their Member of Parliament at what is happening to this essential well-loved institution and the disgraceful way the Communication Workers Union is being treated by the PO management.