Sell-off of Royal Mail a disaster, says TUC chief

Frances O’Grady told the annual conference of the Communication Workers Union that previous sell-offs in the rail and utility sectors had led to higher train fares, rocketing energy prices and bumper pay for executives.

The CWU has launched a campaign against Royal Mail privatisation, while civil servants and teachers are among other workers involved in industrial action over jobs, pay and spending cuts.

Ms O’Grady told the conference in Bournemouth: “We will not stand by and see services cut and workers walked over.

“The TUC will always back our unions, including over co-ordinated industrial action wherever unions want it and whenever workers vote for it.”