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Responding to the Lib-Con coalition government's plans published today (Thursday 20th May, 2010) to push ahead with privatisation and breaking up Royal Mail Group, the Communication Workers Union warns of "old politics" at play.
Billy Hayes, CWU general secretary, said:
"This is old politics wrapped in new language. The British public has consistently rejected the privatisation of Royal Mail. The move to regurgitate failed policies will be deeply unpopular."
The brand new coalition government has announced plans to seek a partial privatisation of Royal Mail; the announcement comes as Royal Mail reported operating profits of £404m for the last financial year - up 26% on the previous year.
Therefore the new government cannot be pursuing such an ill conceived policy because economically it would be good for the country, just the opposite in fact. Nor can the new government be pursuing this to improve the service to the public, because too much evidence exists from every such move in others countries to demonstrate the fallacy of that argument.
Twice in recent history, previous governments were forced to abandon plans to part-privatise Royal Mail because it is in no one’s interest to do this, and definitely not in the interest of the British Public.
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The Communication Workers Union believes in protecting the universal delivery service to the great British public and maintaining the “one price goes anywhere” principle, we should not allow the profiteering that privatisation will create to destroy this great public service - Say no to privatisation, say yes to maintaining public ownership.
This website gives back ground information on what we stand for, our belief in a better way and also contact details, follow the links above to check out the rest of this site.
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Defending public services
