An Post crisis – National strike must be averted

WITH chaos looming in the postal service, the troubles besetting An Post are symptomatic of a malaise in a raft of ailing State companies.

Losing money at an alarming rate, An Post urgently requires root-and-branch surgery. So deep-seated are its industrial relations problems that an outright postal strike seems unavoidable.

No sooner has one industrial relations crisis been resolved in a State operation than another has erupted for the Government.