audio - Can CWU halt the destruction of Britain's postal service?

Here's an interview with Kevin Beazer regional secretry of the Communication Workers' Union in Bristol.

After 350 years of universal service the British public is facing an end to daily deliveries and high rates for posting letters outside cities.

The press, however, is portraying the present dispute as purely about pay. Kevin Beezer sets the record straight explaining fully the background to the current series of strikes.

http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=23956


thanks to Mark Gobell for the following...
Tax Payer funded industries sold off to the vultures

Railways
Water
Electricity
Gas
Steel
Coal
Buses
Ship building
Aircraft
Telephones
Ambulance Service
Prisoner Transport
Rubbish collection
Care of the elderly
Local Government services
MOD research


To follow ?

NHS
Education
Local Goverment
Military
Police
Fire Service
Prisons
Me and you

Any more ?

I've been in industry long enough to have seen the new thinking being implemented.

From the Thatcherite years it was all about core business, do what you do best etc.

Why run your own IT for example when your company is about selling balloons ?

Result: Over priced IT outsourcing, reduced services levels, less effective provision.

This has been the model that has been repeated up and down the land in every niche of business that could be identified as being profitable.

"Offshored" industries like call centres - the modern slave industry.

Outsourced contracts by the zillion.

Our governments are there to facilitate the needs of big business - nothing more than that.