Nantwich MP Timpson continues fight over local postal jobs
Nantwichnews
Crewe and Nantwich MP Edward Timpson is keeping up the pressure to ensure workers at the local postal sorting office get a fair hearing.
The centre, on Weston Road, is due to close with services moved to Warrington, and some of the 600 workers are being bussed there already.
Mr Timpson, raising the matter during business questions in the House of Commons, said: “May we find time for a debate on the distribution of Royal Mail jobs, particularly when we have a melée of a debate about privatisation, so that the 600 workers for Crewe’s second largest employer get the attention that they deserve?”
The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) has fought a long campaign to keep at least some jobs in Crewe.
Mr Timpson’s office secured a short-notice meeting with the Lib Dem Special Advisor at the Department of Business.
He added: “They have promised to go away and look again more closely at which of the two significant buildings is sold at the request of myself and the CWU.
“Let’s wait and see what they come back with.”
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