Royal Mail workers to be balloted for industrial action over pay

MORE than 115,000 Royal Mail workers are to be balloted for industrial action in a row over pay, their union announced today.

Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) will vote in the coming weeks on whether to mount a campaign of industrial action.

Ballot papers will go out on June 28 and the result will be known next month.

CWU deputy general secretary Terry Pullinger said in a video posted on Twitter: “Today we will be serving a notice on Royal Mail Group over a pay claim – our claim for an inflation-based, no-strings pay award.

“The company has imposed a 2 per cent pay award, miles away from where inflation is, totally inadequate.”

A Royal Mail spokesperson said: “We believe there are no grounds for industrial action. 

“We offered a deal worth up to 5.5 per cent for CWU grade colleagues, the biggest increase we have offered for many years, which was rejected by the CWU.”