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…
‘Nail in the coffin’
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…
Profits at what cost?
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…
Post Office ‘slash and burn’
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…
‘Another nail in the coffin’
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…
Post office strike
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…
Protecting pensions
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…
Mean spirited
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…
Post Office has failed
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…
Pension ‘robbery’
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…
Has the Post Office ‘failed’?
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…
‘Going same way as steel’
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…
Beginning of the end
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…
Honour pay deal call
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…