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POSTAL WORKERS
THE Communication Workers Union has voted in favour of a national strike. Anyone with knowledge of the Post Office will understand why.For two decades at least, the government of the day has creamed Post Office profits in its good times, without returning anything for future investment, and in its bad times required a service six days per week to every address in the country with minimal financial help.The boss of Royal Mail, said to be the highest paid public servant in Britain's history, is now trying to impose a pay freeze on his workforce (but not on himself).Mrs S Harnby suggests union bosses, in acting for their members, are from another planet (HAS, Sept 26).See the full content of this document
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She herself shows an ignorance of what is happening on this planet. Yes, it's about money. The Government, as owner of the Post Office, took a pensions contribution holiday, remember; and a certain former Chancellor put a tax on pensions, remember.The "country almost on its knees" she describes has money to fight an illegal war and run the expensive Trident system defending us from a threa...
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