Royal Mail has named Moya Greene as new chief executive.

The BBC is reporting that Moya Greene has indeed been named as the new chief executive of the Royal Mail.  Effective early July, (some are reporting a specific date of July 14th), Moya will begin her new job replacing the outgoing boss, Adam Crozier, who left for a position at ITV.  His salary was just under 1 million pounds but Moya will not likely be getting that much as the new coalition governing Britain led by Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that no employee of the public service should make more than 20 times what the lowest paid employee in the service makes.  This “limit” would leave room for Moya to take home more money than she currently earns as the highest paid public employee in Canada.

She is leaving Canada Post after beginning a “transformation” that would see the profitable corporation go 2.5 billion dollars in debt in order to cut jobs.  While the Canadian economy was still reeling from the recession and the resulting jobless recovery, she was busy spending Canadian money buying trucks made in Turkey and Multi-line Optical Character Reading sortation machines made in Japan.  She was also just about to begin negotiations for a new collective agreement with CUPW that she hoped would strip workers of the current sick leave provisions.  Rolling back other leave provisions and attacking other benefits were all in her agenda.

Current news reporting is painting a pretty picture of Moya’s career with Canada Post.  They are giving her credit for postal labour peace and profits.  Her contribution to the peace is questionable at best.  The restraint shown by CUPW during the last two sessions of collective bargaining while we lost our severance pay and gained the two tiered CTI performance based bonus system is what maintained the “peace”.  The hard work of postal workers during the intentional staffing shortages and position deletions has brought record profits during one of the worst recessions in modern history.  Moya’s confrontational management, her huge salary and bonuses and her ever expanding expense account had little to do with CPC’s success.

We hope that the government of Canada will take advantage of this situation to take a step back and look at the direction that Canada Post is taking.  While modernization is important to the future of the corporation, do Canadians really want to see over 2 billion dollars spent to cut decent jobs in a post office that has reported 15 straight years of profitability?

Oh, and we wish the best of luck to our Brothers and Sisters working for the Royal Mail.  We know they’ll be needing it.