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Royal Mail’s management is trying to destroy the postal service
KATE OSBORNE MP, a former postal worker, explains that the current attacks by CEO Simon Thompson aim at turning post into a gig-economy nightmare of self-employed owner-driver chaos, not 'modernisation'
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
DESPITE taking record-breaking profits of £758 million in 2021 and paying £547m to shareholders, Royal Mail’s incompetent management wants to cut services and tens of thousands of jobs in their efforts to run down and asset-strip our postal service and diminish the value of postal workers’ jobs.
As Ian Lavery pointed out to Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson during the BEIS select committee this week, to not even think about rewarding those who provided the profit and instead immediately dole it out to shareholders, is extraordinary.
The board is set on turning a beloved national institution into a gig-economy-style parcel courier, complete with self-employed workers carrying tracker devices instructing them to go further and faster.
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