Postal workers unions said on Monday they are shocked that so many delivery workers are to lose their jobs in a major shake-up of TNT services.

In total, all delivery workers who work more than 25 hours a week – a total 15,000 – face the sack, as TNT battles to head off competition from budget delivery firms like Sandd.
Earlier this year, union members rejected a management jobs guarantee in return for pay cuts, and agreed to accept job losses instead.
Drama
‘We had expected this to affect 11,000 delivery workers and that between 4,000 and 5,000 would lose their jobs,’ a spokesman for the Abvakabo union told the NRC. ‘This will be a drama.’
Inge Bakker of the CNV public workers union said she was furious that TNT plans to replace long-serving staff with cheap contract workers.
‘Sandd and Selekt Mail have been criticised for underpaying staff. Now TNT is going to do the same thing,’ she said.
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