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Billy Hayes, General Secretary of the CWU, UK, has been elected as World President for UNI Post & Logistics. Speaking after his election at the UNI Post & Logistics World Conference held in Washington DC, he said he hoped to work closer with Post & Logistics affiliates to implement a strategy to deal with the liberalisation and privatisation issues facing postal unions and to achieve the goals set by the Conference of Breaking Through to Innovate, Mobilise and Organise.



He also paid tribute to the work of the outgoing President, Rolf Buttner from Germany who had held the position over several years and had helped guide the sector during a difficult time when the European Union had totally liberalised the postal market and mail volumes had been hit very hard by the global recession. Billy told the delegates that he would continue the work started by Rolf and the UNI Post & Logistics team, and fight to maintain decent jobs for all postal workers regardless of whether they worked for the Post Office or one of the many other global delivery companies. He said UNI must work with it's affiliates to helping them to deal with the modernisation that the industry is facing with new opportunities in an expanding and rapidly altering communications industry and to organise the workers in the expanding global delivery industry.