Donald Brydon new Royal Mail chairman

Donald Brydon is the new chairman of Royal Mail and has been appointed for three years from March 26 on a salary of £200,000 a year.

He has a reputation as a bruiser,and was also called a "a thug" while defending market research group Taylor Nelson Sofres from a £1bn hostile takeover approach when he was chairman.

Mr Brydon said: "The Royal Mail is one of Britain's great organisations and I am honoured to be ask to lead it in the next phase of its continuing modernisation."

The CWU hopes that 'Donald Brydon will be able to adapt to the challenges of the postal sector and succeed to modernise a wholly publicly owned Royal Mail.'


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Royal Mail profits still rising

Leighton and Crozier due to leave,CV's to write,Royal Mail profits up,the £1M a day loss a distant memory,all four arms of Royal Mail making a profit for the 1st time in 20 years,you couldn't make it up...... could you?


Group revenue rose nearly 3% for the 2008-2009 financial year to £7.2 billion,with Royal Mail on track to DOUBLE the annual profit it made last year.Royal Mail made an operating profit of £255 million in the nine months to Christmas, compared with £162 million for the whole of 2007/8.



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Rebels with a cause:Mandelson's a pratt:Government backs Royal Mail sell off:Mandelson lies:

So much news so many headlines,where do i start.

At the time of writing 71 'rebel MPs' have already signed a Commons early day motion (EDM) saying they are opposed to part-privatisation of Royal Mail because they want Royal Mail to remain "wholly publicly-owned", in line with the policy for postal services agreed at Labour's conference last year.

Earlier today, Mandelson met around 60 Labour MPs in the Commons to discuss the issue,with Mandy saying "I happen to believe that if you are going to open a market, if you are going to liberalise it and open it to greater competition, then the existing player has to be in a position to take on that competition." Which is all very well,except he's said it 6 years too late!

Plans to sell-off part of the Royal Mail will be put to Parliament within weeks despite the threat of the large-scale rebellion by Labour backbenchers.

Oh,and Mandy lies when he says "taxpayers could not be expected to bear the added strain of stumping up the "hundreds of millions" needed to modernise Royal Mail."


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CWU willing to set a new course for industrial relations

Dave Ward has written to Adam Crozier to offer Royal Mail an opportunity to sit down with the Union and reach a new collective agreement on modernisation.

Dave writes "It has never been more important that we signal, at the highest level, our joint commitment to make a fresh start."

"In light of the Hooper Report I am calling for an urgent Industrial Relations Summit meeting between the leaders of our respective organisations."

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