Talk:Simon Thompson (Royal Mail)
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Note: Please include the edit request template in the same section as your request. Actualcpscm (talk) 22:29, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
Controversies
In 2023, in his capacity as Royal Mail CEO, Simon Thompson appeared twice before the UK parliament’s business, energy and industrial strategy select committee (BEIS). The first BEIS cross-party committee in January 2023, chaired by MP Darren Jones, heard testimony from Simon Thompson and also Dave Ward, the General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union on issues related to Royal Mail workers’ industrial action.
Simon Thompson appeared before the BEIS committee for a second time because he was recalled by MPs who felt he had not given “wholly correct” answers during his first appearance.
Thompson’s second appearance was also noteworthy due to the fact that Darren Jones had deemed it necessary that Thompson, Royal Mail’s chair Keith Williams, and operations development director Ricky McAuley all swear an oath to tell the truth before the committee under a warning of contempt of parliament and a “potential perjury.”
Summing up the session, Jones was quoted in the Guardian as suggesting a common theme among answers given to the committee by Thomson and his two associates.
“We have rogue posters, rogue managers, we have isolated incidents, we have a global pandemic, we have industrial action... It is everyone else’s fault, nothing to do with me, guv.”
Sources: https://news.sky.com/story/royal-mail-boss-recalled-over-inconsistencies-in-evidence-to-mps-12794847 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/22/royal-mail-boss-blames-rogue-managers-for-tracking-devices-on-workers https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001hxrt https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-11781721/Royal-Mail-failing-deliver-admits-boss-Simon-Thompson.html https://www.cwu.org/news/did-simon-thompson-mislead-parliament-pressure-grows-on-royal-mail-boss/ Ilpostino41 (talk) 16:38, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
- Sources should be given in the text; whenever you make a claim that requires a source, there should be a source right after it. A simple list at the end is not specific enough. Actualcpscm (talk) 22:23, 20 March 2023 (UTC)