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Communication Workers Union leaders hail completion of Kretinsky’s EP Group buyout of Royal Mail - World Socialist Web Site

#PostalWorkers #Posties #USOreform #RoyalMail #CWUsellout

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/05/05/rrwm-m05.html

The #PWRFC is holding a Zoom meeting TONIGHT @ 7 p.m. to discuss the situation facing #PostalWorkers & a strategy to fight back. Register now via QR code below, & sign up to the PWRFC newsletter!

#Posties #USOreform #RoyalMail #Kretinsky

We encourage postal workers to attend this Sunday’s online meeting of the PWRFC on April 27 at 7 p.m. The meeting will expose the attacks on the USO at pilot and non-pilot offices and discuss a fighting strategy to oppose Kretinsky’s war plans against the mail service.

CWU update on abolition of USO on pilot sites - World Socialist Web Site

#PostalWorkers #Posties #USOreform #RoyalMail

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/04/21/xwti-a21.html

#RoyalMail workers in Scotland speak against #USO pilots: “The #CWU is trying to dress this up” - World Socialist Web Site

#PostalWorkers #Posties #Kretinsky

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/03/10/qhpo-m10.html

Royal Mail workers at Mt Pleasant and Salisbury condemn USO pilots: “It can’t keep going on like this” - World Socialist Web Site

#PostalWorkers #Posties #USOpilots #RoyalMail

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/25/xkpw-f25.html

Ofcom’s “package of reforms”: a wrecking ball against the mail service and postal workers’ jobs and conditions - World Socialist Web Site

#PostalWorkers #Posties #USO #RoyalMail #CWU

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/02/19/hocr-f19.html

Postal workers speak on #USO pilots at #RoyalMail: “There is only one way it’s going, it's Amazon, and it will be all about parcels” - World Socialist Web Site

#Posties #CWU #PostalWorkers

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/26/qwjo-j26.html

Oppose the USO pilots imposed by #CWU and #RoyalMail! - World Socialist Web Site

#PostalWorkers #Posties

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/19/gtlc-j19.html

A reminder that Canada Post is not negotiating in good faith. They are purposely working against the negotiations to put Canadians against Posties.

The end goal is obvious - Canada Post wants gig workers, not a union. Canada Post wants to pay people as little as possible while removing services, refusing to evolve into a proper and modern postal service. They want to leave rural communities, just like the banks have.

We can't keep letting this happen.

I stand with Posties!

#Canada #CanadaPost #Ontario #CUPW #Posties #Unions

Now that it’s official that Post.news is shutting down, I’ll be spending even more time here. #posties #PostRefugees

“I have no faith in the union: they sold us down the river, the company got everything it wanted. I can leave 6,7,8 bags of mail in a day. My manager will just say, ‘As long as you get those parcels clear’.”

#RoyalMail #PostalWorkers #Posties #CWU

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/30/smdg-a30.html

For all the new #Posties #PostRefugees

I won't Spout 🐳 about some things at all
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I'm game for everything else! 😂

For all the new #Posties #PostRefugees

🔥 #SpoutibleHotTips hashtag will be helpful as well!

#RoyalMail demands end of six-day letters delivery, plans mass job destruction - World Socialist Web Site

#CWU #PostalWorkers #Posties

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/07/axhh-a07.html

The Washington Post’s site, apps and print edition featured many more anonymous sources than usual Thursday–in the form of generic “Washington Post Staff” bylines above previously-filed stories, reflecting the one-day strike called by the paper’s union to protest 18 months of unproductive bargaining with management over a new contract and the more recent threat by management of newsroom layoffs.

I know that union reasonably well. The Post Guild provided me an immense amount of help when the paper ushered me out the door almost 13 years ago–I still have the union card I didn’t get until the last few months of my tenure–and every year since has provided new evidence of journalism’s susceptibility to toxic management. Solidarity is a good thing.

So I honored the union’s request to avoid engaging with the Post’s output Thursday as best as I could (the print edition showed up on our front lawn anyway) by doing nothing that would make the paper any money that day. The exercise of shunning the Post reminded me that we do have other quality local news sources that often beat the Post to stories around here–ArlNow and Greater Greater Washington come to mind.

But watching an actual Post walkout also reminded me of how much things have changed since I was there.

We had a byline strike in 2002, but the last actual walkout had happened when I was four years old–and ended badly for the union. Seemingly endless rounds of buyouts that escalated from 2008 onwards, paid for by the unicorn of an overfunded retirement fund, did suck the joy out of the newsroom. But for years we could tell ourselves that the Graham family’s private ownership was our rock and protected us from indiscriminate layoffs to meet a quarterly-earnings number.

And then Don Graham shocked the entire extended Washington Post family by selling the paper to Jeff Bezos. The Bezos bucks made enough of a difference fast enough to make me think that the paper had turned a permanent corner–the staff grew, the paper reopened bureaus it had shuttered and stationed correspondents in places it had neglected, the CMS apparently became less toxic, and Posties I saw around town no longer had metaphorical rain clouds over their heads.

(Post journalists also didn’t let up on Amazon after Bezos put down his $250 million for the paper, regularly reporting serious problems with fake reviews and workplace safety at that company.)

It’s depressing to see that the paper’s prospects, at least in management’s eyes, have dwindled so badly that the Post is now planning layoffs and, from what other ex-Posties report, grotesque cutbacks to local coverage.

It’s dismaying to know how much worse things are at many other publications–my former client USA Today comes to mind–where journalists probably envy Post employees who are demanding raises, not just continued employment.

And it’s outright enraging to see that the entire online advertising ecosystem, the subject of federal and state antitrust lawsuits targeting Google’s alleged abuses of market power, continues to compensate publishers so poorly.

But I continue to think, possibly foolishly, that people don’t set out to make themselves dumber about current events, and that business models must exist to sustain journalism that makes people smarter. And I continue to pay for a Post subscription–which I hope will lead to more money going to the people whose valuable work I appreciated reading Friday.

https://robpegoraro.com/2023/12/08/solidarity-with-striking-posties/

#bylineStrike #DonGraham #JeffBezos #organizedLabor #PostGuild #Posties #solidarity #union #walkout #washingtonPost #WashingtonPostStrike

Rank-and-file meeting adopts fighting programme for #RoyalMail workers - World Socialist Web Site

#Posties #PostalWorkers #CWU #NoSellout!

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/05/16/wbnm-m16.html

Wow. My large print copy of the new #Tolkien #book “The Fall of Numenor” was sent out last night - earlier than expected - and the #RoyalMail said they expected to deliver it tomorrow, i.e. Saturday. Nope, it got to #Dundee 4.30pm, and a postie from Dundee West depot (we are usually Dundee East) delivered it at 6.40pm. Go the #posties! #SupportYourPostie #SupportTheStrikers

Once upon a time #Christmas and all that entails, was a 12 day affair, lasting on into the New Year...so all those whingeing they're not getting their cards and parcels because of #Posties strikes, can take a running jump and remember REAL traditions and BE GRATEFUL.

Sir John who? #LBC he hasn’t got a clue @[email protected] #NHSWorkersNeedAPayrise #NHSStrikes #railstrike #posties
#SupportTheStrikes

@ProjectFearlessness Have they got shorts on?
#Posties
#Northerners
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#PostOffice #Strike #Posties #FairPay