Massive mobilizations and strikes have been witnessed in the UK over the last couple of months against the Tory government for failing to tackle the ongoing cost of living crisis. Postal workers, railway workers, public service workers, barristers, dockers, garbage collectors, Amazon workers etc. have walked out and gone on strike to demand better pay and better working conditions. TRNN delves into the postal workers’ strike and its roots in over a decade of Tory austerity measures. This video is part of a special Workers of the World series on the cost of living crisis in Europe.
This story, with the support of the Bertha Foundation, is part of The Real News Network’s Workers of the World series, telling the stories of workers around the globe building collective power and redefining the future of work on their own terms.
Producer: Alexander Morris
Videographer: Julia Schönheit, Alexander Morris
Video editor: Leo Erhardt
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Squeaking wheel gets the oil.
The postal worker in my area are so bad, basically I’ve had so many letters go missing especially my INR paperwork for the hospital and I’ve reported the problem time and time again and NOTHING gets done, they are just a bunch of thieves
If anything they should get a pay reduction not a raise !!!!
This same thing happened in the 70s? In America.
They tried to send in the troops to deliver the mail but they couldn't figure it out and much less cared to do it.
The nation came to a halt and the government was forced to the bargaining table.
People think it's all about making money but nahhh!! Y'all are making great financial mistakes I think growing money with investment should be your 2023 decision this year it has made me who I am today I learnt this from my mentor
Blame it on Russia and China 🤣🤣🤣. That's the bullshit of the CEO. It time for the right of the people ✊✌️
China may not be as rich as Britain, but life is now better here for most ordinary people. I thank God that I live in China. Decades ago we were the poorest country in the world, but we have grown up. Britain has gotten worse.
Send your money to Ukraine, that's more important than you poor peasants.
The people of the world are with you!
Rishi Sunak is bent on confrontation. He's prepared to let sick people suffer.
💪💪💪💪supt
uk has lots of money to send to supt mr z in Ukr….🤣🤣🤣
Remove the Lot of them!
They don’t care about us!
They have no Authority or Title!!
Their Title has been removed!
The Peoples Hold Highest Title!!
We see you all
Corrupt Corporations Monarch Owned Companies!!
We Don’t think so
The Peoples have no confidence
This system is broken Beyond Repair!!
Zee tolerance to Barberism Now!!
Flip the switch!!
We can do this ourselves!!
We are capable free living sovereign Beings!!
WWG1WGA
Stop the silent war against ordinary people!!
Enough is enough!!
Zero tolerance to Barberism Now!!
Don’t give up the fight
Get up stand up for your rights!!
We are all in this together!
Many Arrows won’t bend
Remember
The Chains we Refuse to wear!!
We see them all!
Exposed Evil Satanic Controller’s Agenda
Against the Peoples of the Lands
We do not comply
No more excuses no more lies
WWG1WGA ❤
Amazing video and thank you for breaking it down!! Despite the economic downturn,I'm so happy☺️. I have been earning $32,243 returns from my $7,300 investment every 14days..
Lol, if you don’t like your position, move to another
❤🖤❤
F neoliberal policies across the world, we stand with British workers, with love from Kazakhstan!
The so-called "Ukraine war inflation" has nothing to do with the strike. The reason for it is the total mismanagement of the company, the (proven) lies and the profits before people attitude of the company.
I was a postman until last week. We are (were) treated no better than overworked leaflet/parcel distributors. And the denial of prioritising parcels, just complete lies. Mail not delivered for 4,5 days is not uncommon. Every word these posties say is 100% true.
I spent a year at Peterborough. Such a great bunch of people. People who really do care about the job and the company, being broken down and discarded.
As an American I'm tired of the Ukraine's on the American taxpayers tit.💯
These are all good people who only want to put food on the table to feed their families, pay their rent, and survive.
Stay strong. Funny that they have billions of pounds to give to the Ukrainian Nazis. Those are the same Nazis that your grandfather fought and died to defend your freedom.
This channel is the biggest scam I've seen
As soon as Royal Mail went private, the workers should have received most of the initial shares.
An ex-empire now turned 3rd world country 😅
They are going to take everything
Capitalism and the almighty altar of increased profits.
Not profits, but “increased profits” are the SOLE reason for workers being marginalised.
Only “increased profits” drive the stock price up and that’s all the investors, the CEO and his cronies (and our billionaire PM) care about.
To add insult to injury, those increased profits (essentially funded by the workers) are used for what purpose?
No, not to re-invest in the company.
No, not to improve the company. No, not to improve benefits. They’re used to buy-back company stock (to raise the stock price) and to squirrel-away in offshore tax havens so they don’t have to pay tax on it and where it doesn’t benefit the GDP of Britain one iota!
That’s right, no good use at all.
These poor workers get screwed over, to increase profits that are simply not needed – lovely.
Public services should never be profitized, privatized. In fact more commodities and services need to be nationalized. Stop the greedy. Stop those trying to profit on human basic needs. People investing in these things are looking for guaranteed profit with no risk, but it endangers those that depend on necessities. Profit comes with risk, if they can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen. Speculators have no right to disrupt society for their own selfish goals, imo.
Ukraine is more important that your work ethics