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| Postal workers today pleaded for independent negotiators to help end a dispute with mail bosses after an apparently leaked document indicated that Royal Mail was preparing to tough-out the industrial action with Government backing. Royal Mail is bracing for two 24-hour national strikes next week, which will cripple Britain¡¯s mail network. Billy Hayes, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), said he hoped Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, had not rubber-stamped anti-union tactics in revenge for his failure to part-privatise the organisation. ¡°We are quite happy to go to Acas (the independent conciliation service),¡± he said. ¡°We are interested in compromise, but we seem to have a management that does not seem to want to compromise or go to Acas. I find that incredible.¡± Related Links Last night, BBC¡¯s Newsnight programme claimed to pearl jewelry have a leaked document outlining Royal Mail¡¯s aggressive approach to negotiations over modernisation. The PowerPoint presentation dated September 24 said that if the CWU refused to agree a deal on Royal Mail¡¯s terms the company had ¡°positioned things in such a way as there is shareholder, customer and internal support for implementation of changes without agreement¡±. The only shareholder in Royal Mail is the Government, whose support for sidelining the union would be controversial. On Wednesday more than 60 MPs signed an early day motion urging the Government ¡°to do all in its power to ensure that Royal Mail responds positively to the union¡¯s proposal¡±. A spokesman for Royal Mail today claimed that the policy plan headed Dispute: Strategic Overview had not been drafted by the organisation. ¡°We absolutely do not accept that as a genuine Royal Mail document,¡± he said. ¡°For the avoidance of any doubt Royal Mail has never had any strategy to derecognise the CWU and nor would we seek to do so.¡± But Mr Hayes repeated today that he believed the document was genuine, adding it was ¡°more worrying¡± that Lord Mandelson seemed to know what was in it. ¡°I hope Peter Mandelson is not sitting there thinking: 'This is my revenge because I could not persuade my parliamentary colleagues to part-privatise the Royal Mail,'¡± Mr Hayes said on BBC Radio 4¡¯s Today programme. Mr Hayes said Lord Mandelson had ruled out the biwa pearl involvement of Acas in trying to break the deadlocked dispute. ¡°It seems like a cynical attempt to sideline the union.¡± The CWU said that the Royal Mail¡¯s refusal to negotiate over its modernisation plans and proposals to reform pay and working conditions had left it little choice but to call a strike for next week. About 42,000 network drivers and mail centre staff are due to hold a 24-hour strike on Thursday, while on Friday 78,000 delivery and collection staff will walk out for 24 hours. Many Labour MPs are nervous about a long-running postal strike creating a ¡°winter of discontent¡± atmosphere before next year¡¯s general election. Lord Mandelson hinted that Royal Mail might target the union¡¯s finances by abolishing paid time off to do union work and retracting free use of premises for meetings. If talks between the CWU and Royal Mail do not produce a settlement next week¡¯s strike, which follows a series of regional walkouts, would be the first national stoppage since 2007. An estimated backlog of 30 million letters and parcels has already built up in Royal Mail sorting offices as a result of the akoya pearl regional strikes. An increasing number of companies are considering using other delivery services, although they were warned yesterday that rival providers were running at close to capacity. Hermes, one of Royal Mail¡¯s rivals, said that it had seen post volume rise by 25 per cent during the past week and warned that a prolonged strike could force it to close its services to new customers. | ||
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