Workers want engagement on the economic crisis UNI tells APPU

Publié: 12 Mars 2009
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Postal workers want to be involved in finding ways to deal with the serious affects of the economic crisis and to ensure postal companies limit the affects of the downturns in mail volumes on workers. Speaking to the Asia Pacific Postal Union (APPU) conference being held in Auckland New Zealand, the UNI delegation said workers must be involved in rearranging work structures and in finding ways to cut costs without job losses to meet the sharp decline in revenues. The presentation was made by UNI Global, UNI Apro, UNI’s New Zealand affiliate, the EPMU and the Australian affiliate CEPU. The presentation covered UNI-Apro’s work in the Asia Pacific region, how the CEPU is facing new technology challenges in Australia, the EPMU’s work to secure postal delivery workers in decent jobs and what UNI is doing to ensure the postal industry deals with the looming public concerns of sustainable development.

The presentation also asked the APPU countries to recognize the value of engaging with workers throughout the postal industry and ensuring decent wages and conditions for a group of workers who already are not highly paid. They told the conference, if postal cornpanies want to provide quality services then they need quality jobs and well trained, well paid and motivated workers. This could only happen if they worked with unions and their members to make a better postal service and to meet the challenges of the economic crisis head on. The EPMU told the conference that their members were working with New Zealand Post to find ways to deal with the downturn in mail volumes. The union has sent a message to EPMU members through a video on You Tube.

You can find the video at www.epmu.org.nz/crunch-time/ or by searching for “Crunch Time EPMU” at www.youtube.com.