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Notes from a postal striker in the north: Sack the dimwit duo and cronies
We’re standing up to Royal Mail’s bullies
Postie soldier is bosses’ target
They’re all doing their bit to back the post strikers
Last week’s solid strikes showed workers’ strength
Only a good deal will be enough
A day in the life of a post support group
Where now for workers' struggle after post strikes suspended?
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Issue: 2176 dated: 7 November 2009
Post dispute
posted: 6.39pm Tue 3 Nov 2009
This article should be read after: Solidarity can win the post fight
Mandelson goes all quiet on us
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Some Labour MPs have joined post workers on their picket lines – to their credit. It is also remarkable that the government has retreated into sudden silence over the postal strike.
Lord Mandelson is symbolic of the state of the Labour government.
After pushing for privatisation earlier this year and launching attacks on the union in the run-up to the strike, something has happened to him.
Strangely Mandelson seems not to have said a word, issued a press release or leaked an opinion on the post strike for over a week.
It could be that he has realised that every self-serving anti-union utterance was stiffening the resolve of strikers.
Or perhaps the ever fickle Mandelson realised that the bosses and the government are a very long way from smashing up the CWU, as they clearly hoped to at the beginning of the strike.
The following should be read alongside this article:
Solidarity can win the post fightNotes from a postal striker in the north: Sack the dimwit duo and croniesWe’re standing up to Royal Mail’s bulliesPostie soldier is bosses’ targetThey’re all doing their bit to back the post strikersLast week’s solid strikes showed workers’ strengthShut down the scab centresJob centres ban casual adsWe should come firstOnly a good deal will be enoughA junk article in the SunUnion leaders must do moreStep up the action to winA day in the life of a post support groupWhere now for workers' struggle after post strikes suspended?Why post union should not have stopped strikes© Socialist Worker (unless otherwise stated). You may republish if you include an active link to the original.
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