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ITF backs British postal workers
23 October 2009
The ITF has outlined its support for British postal workers who this week began a nationwide strike to defend jobs and wages, which are being undermined in the name of modernisation.
The ITF expressed its backing for the workers in a resolution that was adopted on 23 October by the ITF executive board in London, UK. The resolution notes how tens of thousands of postal workers, represented by the Communication Workers’ Union, had shut down Royal Mail, the state-run service, for the first time in two years. The ITF was supporting the workers “in their resolve to resist bullying bosses’ attempts to cut jobs and force them to work harder for less pay – in the guise of modernisation.”
The resolution also condemned Royal Mail managers’ failure to participate constructively in talks, as well as “the collusion of the British government ministers with Royal Mail management to veto any resolution through negotiations.”
The ITF has pledged to work with global union federation UNI, which represents postal workers across the world, to build international solidarity support for the union.
ITF inland transport section secretary Mac Urata said: “The British postal workers’ dispute is not an isolated case; all around the world restructuring processes are threatening the jobs and conditions of postal and other employees in the transport sector. That’s why it’s so crucial that workers show international solidarity wherever such threats occur.”
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