A Royal Mail worker of 30 years has slammed the company over its treatment of staff. Sajid Shaikh spoke out from a picket line outside Royal Mail’s Central Delivery Office in Birmingham today, November 24. The area distribution representative is one of thousands of postal workers who have begun a …
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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) …
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Industrial unrest has swept the country 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 …
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Royal Mail workers are striking this week over pay and conditions, in the latest of a series of walkouts. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has said Royal Mail Group’s senior management have presented a “take-it-or-leave-it” proposal, which was rejected by the union’s national leadership. If a compromise cannot be reached, …
Read More »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 »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 …
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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 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 …
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(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, …
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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 …
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