Post Office Green Paper: Union Response

COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION

14/07/2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Responding to the publication of the Government’s Green Paper on the future of the Post Office, Communication Workers Union General Secretary Dave Ward said:

“Successive governments have failed the Post Office, its workers and customers – and choosing to use government subsidies for planned redundancies, closures and so-called transformation plans that are nothing more than managed decline.

“This Labour Government are unashamedly doing exactly the same as the Tories did – managing the politics of the Post Office, prioritising further cost-cutting and offering no vision for its future.

“The CWU has long called for radical action that would enable the Post Office to become an ethical Post Bank, ending financial exclusion and investing in community wealth building, business growth and improved Government services, through a national network of banking hubs.

“The only way to build a successful future is to bring Royal Mail and the Post Office back together through a new joint venture ownership model, building on the golden share the government has recently taken in Royal Mail.

“Postmasters deserve much higher remuneration, as well as major compensation for the appalling injustices suffered through the Horizon scandal.

“They also deserve to be represented by an independent trade union and have a greater say over the governance and direction of the company.

“The new ownership model we are advocating can achieve all of these things.

“Reuniting the Post Office with Royal Mail and utilising their natural synergies will create added social, commercial and economic value for both companies and the country – this is the vision the Government need and we will campaign for them to deliver it.”

ENDS

For further queries, please contact CWU Press Officer Marcus Barnett at mbarnett@cwu.org.