Frederick Douglass

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them..." Frederick Douglass

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Liverpool postal workers walk out over sackings

Public sector workers under attack in UK.

Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) officials said the dispute centred around staff fears that there was too much mail to feed through the new system, brought in after the closure of the sorting office at Copperas Hill. According to sources, staff complained the machine would be overloaded and the system would fail. When it did, union officials claim, the staff were dismissed.

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