Post Office to close and franchise more Crown offices with a loss of around 300 staff

The Put up Workplace is to shut and franchise 37 Crown workplaces throughout the UK with the lack of round 300 jobs, it was revealed as we speak.

One other 127 monetary specialist roles may also be slashed, in response to the Communication Staff Union, who say it's piling extra 'distress' on workers and clients.

It's on high of the 62 branches introduced for closure and franchise in 2016.

Crown Put up Workplaces are bigger branches often discovered on busy excessive streets throughout Britain.

Unhealthy information: The Put up Workplace is to shut and franchise an additional 37 Crown workplaces with the lack of round 300 workers, a union stated as we speak

REVEALED: THE 37 POST OFFICES IN THE FIRING LINE 

The Put up Workplace has introduced plans to hunt 'companions' for the next 37 branches:

Abbey Wooden, south-east London

Billingham Crown Buildings, Teesside

Bishops Stortford, 102 South Road, Hertfordshire

Bootle, The New Strand, Merseyside

Brandon Arcade, Motherwell

Camborne, Chapel Road, Cornwall

Church Street, Willesden 

Collier Row Street, Romford

Consett, Victoria Street, Durham

Diss Market Place, Suffolk

Dundee Meadowside

Falkirk, Garrison Place

Harlesden, Wendover Street

Harringay Inexperienced Lanes

Hecla Avenue Glasgow

Hoddesdon Excessive Road Enfield

Hornchurch Excessive Road Essex

Lancing North Street, West Sussex

Leigh-on-Sea Rectory Grove 

Leyton Lea Bridge Street

Morningside Street Edinburgh

New Cross Street, south-east London

New Road Huddersfield

Ossett Towngate, Wakefield

Petersfield The Sq. GU32 3HG

Pontefract Ropergate WF8 1LU

Pudsey Church Lane LS28 7LB

Redruth Fore Road

Rotherham Bridgegate

Shoreham-by-Sea Brunswick Street 

South Kensington Station

South Woodford, George Lane

Stamford Hill London

Stoke Newington Excessive Road

Thetford Market Place

Ulverston County Sq.

Walthamstow Central, Excessive Road

Common secretary Dave Ward stated: 'The newest spherical of closures is additional proof that the Put up Workplace is in disaster and that the board of the corporate, backed by the Authorities, is just pursuing a technique of slash and burn.

'In the present day's announcement comes lower than three weeks after the closure of a serious authorities session on the way forward for the Put up Workplace and sticks two fingers as much as everybody who took half on this.

'75,000 postcards had been returned to the Authorities signed by members of the general public calling for an finish to the closure and franchise programme - the Put up Workplace and the Authorities have utterly ignored their views.' 

The union has staged strikes in protest on the closure of Crown Put up Workplaces - the bigger branches often sited on excessive streets.

A vibrant protest was held exterior the Enterprise Division earlier than Christmas when sackfulls of submit playing cards from members of the general public had been delivered supporting the union's marketing campaign.

Mr Ward added: 'Whereas the Authorities spent yesterday speaking about constructing a shared society, as we speak's announcement urgent on with the destruction of yet one more public service reveals we're reaching the purpose the place we can have little left to share.

'The CWU won't settle for this and we will likely be stepping up our political and industrial marketing campaign to combat for the way forward for the Put up Workplace.'

The Put up Workplace stated will probably be looking for 'companions' for 37 of its straight managed branches, along with 93 beforehand introduced within the final calendar yr, almost half of which have now relocated into retail shops.

Roger Gale, Gross sales and Commerce Advertising Director, stated: 'We're dedicated to sustaining the Put up Workplace's particular place on the excessive road and the modifications we're making underpin our continued dedication to offer communities in each a part of the nation entry to important companies.

'The Put up Workplace's community of greater than 11,600 branches is definitely the biggest within the UK, with 17 million buyer visits every week. The overwhelming majority of those branches are run with companions, and within the areas introduced as we speak we imagine this may also be a extra sustainable method for the long run.

'With shopper habits altering, and the excessive value of sustaining premises in prime excessive road areas, franchising helps us to maintain companies the place our clients need and want them.

'We'll take time to determine the fitting companions over the approaching months and all proposals will likely be topic to native session.

'Put up Workplace has a robust report of supporting individuals by change and we will likely be retaining affected workers totally knowledgeable as we develop our plans.'

Unite officer Brian Scott stated it was 'salami slicing of a a lot revered and valued nationwide establishment in pursuit of revenue', including: 'The general public will endure as companies are regularly and systematically eroded'.

Stunt: Members of the Communication Staff Union stage a protest exterior the Enterprise Division in London forward of strikes by Put up Workplace employees over jobs, pensions and department closures, threatening distress for thousands and thousands over Christmas

Gill Furniss, shadow minister for postal companies stated: 'The Authorities ought to have a look at the way it can increase Put up Workplace companies and make them sustainable slightly than simply managing a sluggish decline in companies.

'This announcement comes earlier than the Authorities has even responded to its session on the Put up Workplace that closed on 21 December, ignoring the 75,000 postcards returned by the CWU and signed by members of the general public in response to the session.

'This simply reveals that the Authorities just isn't critical about offering a long-term sustainable future for the Put up Workplace, and even much less so about taking up board the views of the general public or Put up Workplace employees.' 

 

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