The wildcat is spreading all over the UK.
Yesterday 20,000 in London walked out, joined in the evening by workers from Scotland, Berkshire, Coventry and other places.
More info below aswell as ways to show solidarity - get down to a picket line!
Yesterday 20,000 in London walked out, joined in the evening by workers from Scotland, Berkshire, Coventry and other places.
More info below aswell as ways to show solidarity - get down to a picket line!
Unofficial strikes by postal workers in London are threatening
delays to mail collections and deliveries.
Thousands of postmen and women are taking industrial action
across the capital, with many mounting picket lines outside mail
centres.
The dispute started when 16 drivers were suspended but has spread as
managers tried to move mail to other centres.
Sources among the strikers claimed that up to 15,000 workers had
walked out, but this figure was disputed by the Royal Mail, which
maintained that the majority of its employees in London were working.
Fresh walkouts hit mail centres at Nine Elms in Vauxhall and at Romford and Ilford, adding to industrial action across west London.
Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton unexpectedly turned up at a
mass meeting yesterday in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade
postal workers to end their strike.
He addressed hundreds of postmen and women in Greenford, west
London, where wildcat action started last week.
The workers listened to Mr Leighton, but then confronted him
with allegations about bullying and intimidation by managers as
well as complaining about their pay rates.
"He went away with his tail between his legs," said one of the
strikers.
www.awn.org.uk
UPDATE 30:10:03
As of last night the strike has now spread to Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Essex, Kent, Buckinghamshire and Lanarkshire in Scotland. Today the wildcat could go national
See Guardian story here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/post/story/0,11489,1073715,00.html
ACTION: Get down to the picket lines!
In some places management sent "bouncers" to picket lines to intimidate strikers, and also cos it's a wildcat they're getting no strike pay. It's also cold out!
To find out where your nearest sorting office is call 08457 223344
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delays to mail collections and deliveries.
Thousands of postmen and women are taking industrial action
across the capital, with many mounting picket lines outside mail
centres.
The dispute started when 16 drivers were suspended but has spread as
managers tried to move mail to other centres.
Sources among the strikers claimed that up to 15,000 workers had
walked out, but this figure was disputed by the Royal Mail, which
maintained that the majority of its employees in London were working.
Fresh walkouts hit mail centres at Nine Elms in Vauxhall and at Romford and Ilford, adding to industrial action across west London.
Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton unexpectedly turned up at a
mass meeting yesterday in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade
postal workers to end their strike.
He addressed hundreds of postmen and women in Greenford, west
London, where wildcat action started last week.
The workers listened to Mr Leighton, but then confronted him
with allegations about bullying and intimidation by managers as
well as complaining about their pay rates.
"He went away with his tail between his legs," said one of the
strikers.
www.awn.org.uk
UPDATE 30:10:03
As of last night the strike has now spread to Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Essex, Kent, Buckinghamshire and Lanarkshire in Scotland. Today the wildcat could go national
See Guardian story here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/post/story/0,11489,1073715,00.html ACTION: Get down to the picket lines!
In some places management sent "bouncers" to picket lines to intimidate strikers, and also cos it's a wildcat they're getting no strike pay. It's also cold out!
To find out where your nearest sorting office is call 08457 223344
from
http://www.enrager.net/web/newswire/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=56&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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Postal Workers strike is for workplace rights and anti-privatisation
30.10.2003 14:12
This magnificant strike (involving tens of thousands of posties across London, and now Glasgow, Portsmouth, Coventry, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Southend, Gravesend so far) is the best chance workers have of winning better pay, stopping privatisation, and dealing the government a major blow.
The people who are really hurting today, are big business, royal mail management and the government.
If you want to be part of, what could be the revival of working class struggle in Britain, make sure YOU do a collection for their strike fund (no strike pay for illegal, unoffical action) round your mates at work, and visit your nearest picket line.
Postal Workers need your solidarity today
Postman Pat
Homepage:
http://www.postworker.org.uk
Solidarity poster
30.10.2003 14:39
AWNer
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postal service
30.10.2003 17:00
If the monopoly is removed, then any present loss of jobs will be as nothing compared to what might happen.
sceptci