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Unite warning over Post Office mutualisation

19 September 2011

Unite the union which represents managers at Royal Mail has warned (Monday 19 September) that Ed Davey's (Liberal Democrat Minister for Postal Affairs) consultation on the proposed mutualisation of the Post Office is a recipe for disaster.

Ian Tonks, Unite national officer said, “Mutualisation is another unhelpful distraction. The real issue here is that the Post Office and Royal Mail depend heavily on each other. Separation, privatisation and mutualisation are recipes for disaster. ”

"One way to make the Post Office sustainable is to set up a Post Bank, but Ed Davey has consistently refused to even consider this proposal.

"Unite, as part of the Post Bank Coalition, is calling on government to set up a working party to examine how a Post Bank could be established to make the Post Office network viable and prosperous for the future."



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