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More than 120 delegates from the CWU UK and more than 10 European countries met at a conference that had been organised by the CWU to consider the changes the union needed to propose with the review of the postal service currently being undertaken in the UK. Presentations from Spain, The Netherlands, Belgium, Slovakia, Germany, France and the UK regulator Postkom along with a presentation from Royal Mail, fuelled a very lively discussion on how the liberalisation that was now taking place in Europe would affect workers and their employment. The conference also heard from CWU UK General Secretary, Billy Hayes; Deputy General Secretary, Dave Ward; and Head of International Affairs, John Baldwin; who described the situation in the UK and how that was affecting employment issues. New UNI Post & Logistics Head of Department, Neil Anderson, also made a presentation where he said UNI would work with affiliates globally to develop a solid programme to support a regulatory environment that recognised the need for a properly funded universal postal service, a quality service that was providing quality jobs and financial transparency in all of the companies operating in the Post & Logistics industry.



The conference also discussed the need to organise the multinational companies now operating in the post & Logistics industry and to get them to pay decent wages and provide good safe working conditions for their workers.



For the presentations made to the conference and podcasts from conference participants, see the CWU web page at;

http://www.cwu.org/news.asp?step=3&NID=1966