FOLLOWING the online publication of a dashcam video showing a delivery driver swerving off the road to pass a New Forest pony, the Royal Mail opened an investigation. Dashcam footage has been posted online of a Royal Mail van showing the driver swerving past a pony after overtaking a driver in front …
Read More »Thousands of teachers, lecturers and Royal Mail workers on strike
Picket lines were mounted outside schools, universities and Royal Mail centres on Thursday as tens of thousands of workers went on strike in worsening disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. Union leaders said walkouts were being solidly supported amid a bitter war of words in the industrial unrest sweeping the …
Read More »Royal Mail strikes may be the ‘nail in the coffin’ for small online businesses this Xmas | UK | News
On Wednesday, the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents postal workers, decided the strikes scheduled for Black Friday weekend and the run-up until Christmas will go ahead. Strike action will be taken this week by 115,000 people after talks between the CWU and the Royal Mail ended without agreement. Small …
Read More »Royal Mail strikes over Black Friday and Christmas to go ahead
Royal Mail strikes planned for Black Friday weekend and through the festive period are set to go ahead after talks to resolve a dispute failed to reach a resolution. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) will walk out again – disrupting deliveries for ten days, including in the run-up to …
Read More »Royal Mail Strike to Hit Black Friday and Christmas Deliveries
(Bloomberg) — UK postal services over Black Friday and the build up to Christmas are set to be disrupted after a trade union rejected what Royal Mail called its “best and final offer.” The Communication Workers Union, which represents 115,000 Royal Mail staff, will strike Nov. 24 and Nov. 25, …
Read More »Royal Mail’s ‘best and final’ offer to avoid Black Friday strikes rejected | Business News
Royal Mail says it has delivered a “best and final” offer to the union representing its frontline workers, in a bid to avert a 48-hour strike to begin on Thursday and covering the Black Friday shopping spree. The company, which claimed earlier this month that a series of walkouts in …
Read More »Black Friday threat as Royal Mail staff begin ‘disastrous’ 48-hour strike | Business News
Royal Mail workers are beginning a 48-hour strike that the retail sector warns could cripple the Black Friday discount shopping season. The strike action is being taken nationwide by 115,000 staff represented by the Communication Workers Union (CWU). University lecturers and teaching staff are also walking out on the first …
Read More »Lecturers, teachers and Royal Mail workers strike in one of biggest walkouts
A CWU placard Royal Mail workers, university lecturers and teachers are walking out on strike as industrial unrest continues to spread across the country in disputes over pay, jobs and conditions. Picket lines are being mounted outside postal delivery and sorting offices, universities and schools as unions edge closer to …
Read More »Posties on strike as ‘take-it-or-leave-it’ offer from Royal Mail rejected
Postal workers began further strike action on Thursday morning after Royal Mail tabled what it said was its “final offer”. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said the public would see the “end of Royal Mail as we know it” as 115,000 workers walked out. Strike action is to take place …
Read More »Royal Mail strikes: CWU warns of the ‘end of the Royal Mail’
115,000 employees will go on strike on Thursday (November 24) and on Black Friday (November 25) in a dispute over pay and working conditions. The longstanding dispute with the Royal Mail Group’s CEO Simon Thompson saw postal workers vote unanimously for a no confidence measure in Mr. Thompson as thousands of …
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