In Delivery Offices up and down the North West postal workers are fed up with the hardline attitude of Royal Mail management who are unilaterally slashing jobs and reducing services we offer the public.

Royal Mail literally operates off the goodwill of their employees who regularly come in early, don’t take meal breaks and use their own cars with no remuneration for doing so. In the meantime Royal Mail continually attack services, along with jobs, terms and conditions.

Whilst local managers have been awarded generous bonuses ranging from £9,000 to £4,000 postmen and women who earn well below the national average wage have been told that they don’t deserve a pay rise this year, even though the company made over £300 million profit off their backs. Directors have also received fat bonuses to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Postal workers have now said enough is enough and are no longer willing to have their goodwill exploited and will no longer come in early, work over their time and use their own cars for no remuneration whilst directors are laughing all the way to the bank.

Thousands of postal workers in the North West have also requested industrial action ballots. If Royal Mail continues not to adhere to the 2007 agreement which committed them to negotiating with the union on improving industrial relations, the future of Deliveries, Mail Centres, the Distribution Network and the full introduction of automation then this could lead to a full national dispute.

Carl Webb, NWU North West Regional Secretary said: “The Company has failed to see the big picture and is implementing changes by executive action with narrow minded slash and burn savings without thought or negotiation then expect our members to pick up the pieces when the system grinds to a halt.

"We have offered Royal Mail a three months no-strike deal if they fulfil their agreements to engage the CWU over modernisation and move the company to a sound footing for the future. This has so far been rejected which has led to the recent bout of industrial action which will soon spread to the North West."

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