NW TUC Conference Prop Urges Government To
Abandon Privatisation Plans

CWU North West Region submits motion to NW TUC Conference calling on the government to abandon its plans to privatise Royal Mail and retain Royal Mail as a 100% wholly publicly owned public service.  

Motion to 2009 North West TUC Conference

This conference calls on the government to abandon its plans to privatise Royal Mail and retain Royal Mail as a 100% wholly publicly owned public service.  

Though welcoming Hooper’s conclusion that the universal service obligation must be protected and that the primary duty of a new regulator should be to maintain it, the North West TUC and the CWU reject, however, the recommendation to sell a minority stake in Royal Mail.

This conference is disappointed that a number of North West Labour MPs appear to support this approach, which jettisons manifesto commitments and Labour Party Conference Policy. Fortunately, there are a substantial number of Labour MPs who recognise the folly of the recommendation and who are working hard to convince the Labour Government to reconsider its privatisation plans.

Thanks to a Trade Union led campaign actively supported by the whole of the Labour Party, the last Conservative Government was forced to shelve its plans to privatise Royal Mail. It would be bizarre in the extreme if a Labour Government, which is increasing its stake in many private companies, embarked on such a mission.

This conference instructs the North West TUC to support and work with the CWU in its campaign to halt this part privatisation and for a modern postal service that provides an improved service for all customers and decent terms and conditions and job security for postal workers.

The NW TUC Regional Secretary should write to all North West MPs advising them of the NW TUC’s total opposition to the Privatisation of Royal Mail, seeking their support in convincing the Prime Minster and Lord Mandelson to retain Royal Mail as a 100% wholly publicly owned public service.

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