TNT accused of bullying workforce

Hmmm TNT are at it again,word is they're threatening to sack 10,000 workers in the Netherlands if they do not accept between 5-15% pay cuts.

TNT are promising not to make any compulsory redundancies for three years but only if workers take the cut.

A spokeswoman for TNT declined to say whether the group would use similar tactics to cut British postal workers' pay if it bought a 30% stake in Royal Mail.

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Crozier attacks TNT for poaching

Ok,this is getting silly,i'm sure some of this is being made up.

Our leechy friends TNT have been trying to poach the big clients of our parcel arm GLS claiming that they might as well come to TNT as GLS will be owned by TNT anyway soon.

Adam Crozier has sent an e-mail to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (Berr) demanding that TNT are prevented from further damaging Royal Mail.

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Dodgy TNT in tax scam

The leech that is TNT seems to be moving fast towards the dodgiest postal operator in the world award.

Not only have they scammed the delay in opening their postal market in their own country,and stopped the minimum wage for postal workers in Germany,they have now been forced to pay back tens of millions of pounds in unpaid tax and have admitted that its staff acted illegally.

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49.9%

The door could be open for the FULL privatisation of Royal Mail and the Tories are wetting themselves after examining the Bill in detail.

The bill has a paragraph which says "a company is publicly owned if the Crown owned more than half of it (directly or indirectly)" ,which would mean a future Conservative Government would be able to privatise up to 49.9% of the Royal Mail without further legislation.

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Crozier's £1M pension pot

Crozier's new found friends The Mirror have revealed that the Royal Mail CEO has "built up a Royal Mail pension pot of £1.1million."

And that "Royal Mail have also paid at least £1million in to a private pension scheme for him since he joined in 2003. And have also made payments to him of at least £348,000 in lieu of other pension contributions."

Crozier is one of only 150 Royal Mail managers granted entry to the gold plated pension scheme.

Our own pension scheme had a '13-year pension holiday' which has played a big part of the state it is in now.

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Belgian postal workers strike against privatisation

More than 30,000 Belgian postal workers will stage an all-out national strike today (Mon 2nd Mar) in protest at privatisation, jobs losses,and a likely squeeze on pay and liberalisation of Europe's mail market in 2011 reports the Guardian.

The strike will be followed by two further days of disruption as Belgian unions are incensed that Danish Post is selling its 24.9% stake in La Poste to private equity firm CVC Partners for €373m (£330m) – earning a profit of more than €200m in three years.

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Mandelson'£ £391,000 office makeover

Peter Mandelson spent £391,000 last year of tax payers money doing up offices for him and his junior ministers at the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory reform according to a report in the Sunday Express.

£20,000 was spent on his office before he came back to the cabinet but Mandy wasn't impressed and spent a further £57,000 redoing it to his liking.

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Government gives £47M to Royal Mail's competitors

Government departments since 2002 have used private postal and delivery firms for their mail needs and have payed out nearly £47M to them in the process.

Even Lord Mandelson’s department has contracts with DHL and international couriers Lewis Day,along with the likes of HM Revenue & Customs,the Department for Work and Pensions and the Foreign Office who have multi million pound contracts with the likes of TNT and UK Mail.

Due to pricing regulations set by 'another' Government department,Royal Mail lose out because they are not allowed to under cut the private firms.

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TNT taking liberties

The Leech that is TNT has been successfully opposing the opening-up of its own domestic market while campaigning for full competition in Britain.

The Dutch Government is on their side as as they have given backing that 50% of local postal services should be retained as a TNT monopoly until the British and German governments make their markets more accessible.

TNT last year also helped get a court ruling that the German minimum wage for postal workers was too high,the minimum hourly wage of €9.80 was wanted by the Germans,TNT at the moment pay their workers over there €7.50 an hour.

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Royal Mail partial sell-off Bill published

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has published the Postal Services Bill, which confirms moves for a partial sell-off of Royal Mail.

The Bill said the Royal Mail will be enshrined in legislation as a publicly-owned company. No Government will be able to change this status without further primary legislation in the future.

Post Office Ltd will be entirely owned by the Government, and this status will not be changed without further primary legislation in the future.

The universal service - letters collected and delivered anywhere in the UK, six days a week, for a single, affordable price - will be written into the legislation.

There will be new powers to allow Royal Mail to charge higher fees for deliveries it carries out on behalf of rival post companies.

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