Feb 05 2024 53 mins 3
Royal Mail remains a key institutions within the UK delivery services. In this episode Andy explains exactly what is at stake for the organisation and its workers as they continue to navigate the pressures of privatisation. Summary In this Red Pepper and Surviving Society collaboration we platform workers and academics to explore the history of trade unions and industrial action in Britain. Executively produced by Liam Kennedy. Many of us within society feel disconnected from the politics of the workplace. Whilst action is at its highest level in decades, there remains very little substantive analysis of the backgrounds and longer histories that has led to specific strikes. The series places industrial action into wider debates about public ownership, capitalism and the economy.
