Couriers benefit from ongoing Royal Mail strike
Date: 08 August 2007
Couriers are set to benefit from the ongoing Royal Mail postal strikes even more following a new twist in the story.
Royal Mail bosses are attempting to encourage staff to cross picket lines by saying they will smuggle them into depots and even give them transfers to different offices to protect their identity, the Mirror reports.
A host of companies have already chosen to ditch Royal Mail in favour of the services of more reliable courier firms, and the latest underhand tactics will do nothing to stem this.
"It's like a witness protection scheme," a source from the CWU union told the newspaper. "They're basically offering to move people to a new area and give them a new identity. It shows the underhand tactics of management and the mind-boggling lengths they are prepared to go to."
Flyers have been handed out in mail centres offering staff the incentives.
Courier delivery firms such as Citipost have managed to pick up extra business as clients desert Royal Mail. The current industrial action concerns pay and modernisation plans, which staff fear will mean job cuts.
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