Royal Mail has blamed postal employee strikes for threatened job cuts
Royal Mail has right now threatened to chop as much as 10,000 roles from its operations by subsequent August. The agency made the announcement in buying and selling replace following the most recent 24 hour strike by Royal Mail workers, represented by the Communication Employees Union (CWU). The strike pertains to a dispute over pay and circumstances, with postal employees having been provided a below-inflation 2 per cent pay deal.
The agency claims that it’s anticipated to make a £350m annual working loss within the 12 months ending March 2023, arguing that these losses might improve if prospects flip to rival supply corporations. Royal Mail went on to recommend that deliberate strike motion would additional intensify losses and probably result in additional job cuts. The corporate mentioned that if additional strikes go forward, “the loss for the complete 12 months would improve materially and should necessitate additional operational restructuring and headcount discount”.
The announcement from Royal Mail marks a serious escalation within the ongoing dispute between CWU and the corporate’s administration.
In November 2021, Royal Mail handed out £400m to shareholders following a growth interval for the corporate through the Covid pandemic. Within the final monetary 12 months, Royal Mail made a bumper revenue of £758m.
CWU basic secretary Dave Ward slammed the announcement from Royal Mail. He accused the corporate of “holding postal employees to ransom”. He mentioned, “The announcement is the results of gross mismanagement and a failed enterprise agenda of ending day by day deliveries, a wholesale levelling-down of the phrases, pay and circumstances of postal employees, and turning Royal Mail right into a gig financial system fashion courier. What the corporate ought to be doing is abandoning its asset-stripping technique and constructing the longer term based mostly on utilising the aggressive edge it already has in its deliveries to 32 million addresses throughout the nation. The CWU is looking for an pressing assembly with the Board and can put ahead another marketing strategy at that assembly.“
“This announcement is holding postal employees to ransom for taking authorized industrial motion in opposition to a enterprise method that’s not within the pursuits of employees, prospects or the way forward for Royal Mail. That is no approach to construct an organization.”
Royal Mail was privatised in 2013 underneath the coalition authorities.
Chris Jarvis is head of technique and growth at Left Foot Ahead
Left Foot Ahead’s commerce union protection is supported by the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Belief
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