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Profit-hungry Royal Mail plans to axe 900 jobs

Jan 27, 2022By UNITElive

You’d think that the Royal Mail would want to celebrate and value its’ staff. After all, didn’t they pull out all the stops for the nation – and earned huge profits for the shareholders? They most…Read more…

Jan 27, 2022UNITElive

‘Nail in the coffin’

Jan 25, 2018By UNITElive

The decision by the Post Office to quit offering mortgages in its high street Crown Offices is another ‘nail in the coffin’ of its public service remit, Unite said today (January 25).   Unite,…Read more…

Jan 25, 2018UNITElive

Profits at what cost?

Dec 20, 2017By UNITElive

The return to profitability by the Post Office has been underpinned by ‘slash and burn’ polices which have diminished the organisation, Unite said today (Wednesday December 20).   Unite, which…Read more…

Dec 20, 2017UNITElive

Post Office ‘slash and burn’

Feb 8, 2017By UNITElive

The latest tranche of Post Office job losses is another example of ‘the rickety management’ that is driving a much-valued national institution into the ground, Unite said last tonight (February 7)….Read more…

Feb 8, 2017UNITElive

‘Another nail in the coffin’

Jan 10, 2017By UNITElive

More questions about the future of the Post Office were raised today (January 10) as Unite condemned the latest round of job losses and plans to franchise more high street post offices.   Unite,…Read more…

Jan 10, 2017UNITElive

Post office strike

Nov 29, 2016By UNITElive

Overseas Christmas mail and parcels are set to be disrupted on Saturday (December 3) – the peak day for such international post – when about 720 managers stage a third 24-hour strike in their…Read more…

Nov 29, 2016UNITElive

Protecting pensions

Oct 24, 2016By UNITElive

The ‘pig-headed’ failure of Post Office bosses to hold constructive talks over the closure of the defined salary pension scheme has prompted more than seven hundred managers to stage a second 24-hour…Read more…

Oct 24, 2016UNITElive

Mean spirited

Oct 13, 2016By UNITElive

The decision by the Post Office to push ahead with the closure of its defined salary pension scheme from the end of March next year has been condemned as ‘unnecessary’ and ‘mean spirited’ by Unite….Read more…

Oct 13, 2016UNITElive

Post Office has failed

Sep 12, 2016By UNITElive

Seconding a motion on the crisis in the Post Office, Unite EC member and delegate Ivan Monckton said that Unite was proud that, its post office managers had taken industrial action on pensions, job…Read more…

Sep 12, 2016UNITElive

Pension ‘robbery’

Sep 6, 2016By UNITElive

Members of Unite working for the Post Office have voted strongly for industrial action over plans by bosses to close the final salary pension scheme despite it being £100m in surplus.   Of those…Read more…

Sep 6, 2016UNITElive

Has the Post Office ‘failed’?

Aug 3, 2016By UNITElive

The Post Office’s decision to close its final salary pension scheme is the latest episode causing concern over its financial state.   It will mean reduced retirement incomes for the scheme’s 3,500…Read more…

Aug 3, 2016UNITElive

‘Going same way as steel’

May 18, 2016By UNITElive

The announcement yesterday (May 17) by the Post Office to cut  600 jobs in its cash handling operation, Supply Chain, led to calls from the CWU and Unite for the Post Office management to resign in…Read more…

May 18, 2016UNITElive

Beginning of the end

Apr 14, 2016By UNITElive

The announcement that 61 Crown post offices will be transferred to high street newsagents WH Smith was branded as ‘the beginning of the death rattle’ for a national high-quality post office network….Read more…

Apr 14, 2016UNITElive

Honour pay deal call

Jul 10, 2015By UNITElive

The delivery of cash to the UK’s 4,500 post offices could be hit, if a group of Post Office managers take industrial action over the management’s refusal to make an agreed one-off payment of between…Read more…

Jul 10, 2015UNITElive

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