The Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee is organising workers against Royal Mail’s attacks, for the defence of terms and conditions, an end to all job cuts and to defeat victimisations. We are opposed to the Communication Workers Union bureaucracy, which acts as Royal Mail’s partner. Information on the committee can be found here. We are affiliated to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC).
The next meeting of the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee is on Sunday September 24 at 7pm.
Since July 2022, more than 400 union reps and postal workers have been sacked or suspended in the largest number of victimisations since the 1984-85 miners’ strike.
Royal Mail workers in the Wirral spoke out in defence of their sacked colleagues. One postie said, “I think people who got sacked were targeted. They’ve not gone after everyone. They are picking out people who are going against the grain.”
“My husband was dismissed in June for totally made-up charges by his bosses. He had over 31 years’ service and an unblemished record.”
The sackings at Prenton are a direct outcome of the national agreement between the Communication Workers’ Union and Royal Mail which includes the use of PDA data for performance management.
At Royal Mail’s Craigavon delivery office in Northern Ireland, the CWU postal executive has blocked a unanimous strike vote against revisions and the suspension of two reps. CWU national officials are functioning openly as strike-breakers.
Over 100 members of the Communication Workers Union sought to wage a fight against imposed revisions and the suspension of their two union reps back in February.
The Communication Workers Union is suppressing all news of an unofficial walkout by postal workers at Glasgow’s G1-5 delivery office in late May. The walkout was reportedly triggered by management bullying.
Any discussion of the way forward must involve a review of the essential lessons of the year-long dispute.
The dispute’s outcome has exposed the lie peddled by “activist” groups such as Postal Workers Say Vote No that the CWU leadership could be pressured to reverse their rotten agreement with the company.
Dave Ward’s depiction of the ballot as an exercise in democracy is a travesty. The CWU bureaucracy waged a vicious and targeted campaign against all those advocating a No vote.
“Ward and his overpaid sidekicks are throwing away rights won by previous generations. Their names will live on in ignominy.”
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The change is part of longstanding restructuring plans, aimed at slashing costs and transforming the publicly owned mail service into a parcel delivery business, with the ultimate goal of full or partial privatisation.
The Knoxville facility is one of 29 across the country consolidating its processing operations into mega regional centers as part of the misnamed “Delivering for America” program.
It is an obscenity that the livelihoods of fighters for the working class are threatened. Those who should face the axe are the pro-company bureaucracy responsible for the betrayal of those they were meant to represent.
1,000 workers walked out according to the GMB union. Approximately 800 workers were on picket lines or took part in protests outside Amazon’s warehouse.
On August 27, Lehman hosted an online Q and A, explaining his campaign’s perspective of building a rank-and-file movement and uniting workers internationally.
In this the founding statement of the Committee, which was founded in a meeting held last weekend, rank-and-file UPS workers call for workers to “to organize ourselves—not to 'support' the bargaining committee and to cheerlead for them, but to enforce our democratic will, and position ourselves to countermand the inevitable sellout.”
Dana workers across the US noticed as March 31, the date by which Appendix P of the contract says Dana must pay “profit sharing,” passed without workers receiving much needed income. We, the rank-and-file, are demanding answers as to why we did not get paid.
The second online public meeting of the Postal Action Committee unanimously passed a resolution that begins with the words, “The second ballot was one big scam to push through cuts in real wages.”
