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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'
Extreme heat is now one of the defining public health challenges of a warming world, explains Prof IAN WILLIAMS
The US-Israeli conflict with Iran has had far-reaching consequences, including a boost to Pakistan’s regional standing, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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Kate Clark pays tribute to Ricardo, whose life spanned the hopes of Allende’s Chile, the horrors of military dictatorship and decades of campaigning for justice in exile
Keir Starmer's early political life suggests a very different future from the one he ultimately embraced, says KEITH FLETT
After the dismissal of union representatives and years of precarious working conditions, Kimpton Clocktower workers are drawing a line, writes THOMAS BELL
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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