poste Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/poste/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:19:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png poste Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/poste/ 32 32 The Royal Mail saga https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/the-royal-mail-saga/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-royal-mail-saga https://en.irefeurope.org/news/article/the-royal-mail-saga/#respond Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:19:05 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/other-publications/news/the-royal-mail-saga/ The UK post office Royal Mail is at least as fervent adept to strikes as the French Poste office. The Unions chose the open clash with the managers, rather than to follow the privatization plan. It is true that the privatization of Royal Mail would compromise a lot of the “traditions” in the company. For example, in the beginning of the decade 10 000 of the 170 000 employees were missing every working day, without any valuable reason. The cost of this absenteeism was 350 mln. of pounds per year.

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