Workers have been on the job for nearly eight months since their last contract expired in May and have received virtually no information about the status of talks since.
The Knoxville facility is one of 29 across the country consolidating its processing operations into mega regional centers as part of the misnamed “Delivering for America” program.
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The determined, year-long battle at Royal Mail has provided an object lesson in the pro-capitalist politics of pseudo-left organisations which defended the trade union bureaucracy against a rank-and-file insurgency.
A postal worker explained, “We must not stop at the end of the vote. This is the beginning of a rank-and-file movement. The fact we exist and are here is enough to unsettle the bureaucrats.”