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Royal Mail workers hold signs outside a Royal Mail depot in London on Thursday as the Communication Workers Union called for a strike across the country. Photo by Andy Rain/EPA-EFE Nov. 25 (UPI) — Some 235,000 Royal Mail workers went on strike Thursday and Friday across Britain, disrupting Black Friday, …

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Royal Mail staff are staging a series of strikes in November and December in an escalating row over pay, jobs and working conditions. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) …

To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A postie has been caught on camera narrowly avoiding colliding with a pony. The Royal Mail driver was captured on camera swerving dangerously close to an animal standing in the road. It …

About 115000 postal workers are taking part in the dispute with Royal Mail. Source link

Around 115,000 postal workers walked out nationally across 1,115 workplaces Thursday, on the first day of 48-hour strike action against the destruction of terms and conditions and pay restraint demanded by Royal Mail. The dispute, which has seen eight previous days of strike action taken since late August, has intensified. …

Counterfire’s weekly digest with the latest on strikes and workplace struggles You can sign up to receive News from the Fronline straight in your inbox Royal Mail CEO Simon Thompson has received a vote of no confidence from postal workers after the latest round of talks with the CWU. On …

Postal workers in Northern Ireland are to take part in further strike action, a trade union has confirmed. The Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) said an ongoing dispute about pay and conditions, which led to strikes on Thursday and Friday, would lead to further action next week. There are believed to …

Hatfield postal workers who are a part of the Communications Workers Unions (CWC) have warned of the ‘end of Royal Mail’ as their strikes continue.   Today (Thursday, November 24) 115,000 employees went on strikes and will continue to do so on Black Friday – November 25 – in a dispute …

THOUSANDS of postal workers across the UK have taken strike action in the lead-up to Christmas.  Staff at Royal Mail picketed on Thursday across the country including postal workers at Shirley and Bitterne Manor in Southampton. The strikes are part of a long-running dispute between the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Royal Mail …

Like banks, pubs and libraries – the places which held communities together – many of our post offices have disappeared from our towns. It was once the only way to communicate, other than by phone, but the age of email and cost cuts saw the gradual demise of post offices …