Royal Mail

By Neil Maidment LONDON (Reuters) – Workers at newly privatised Royal Mail postal service voted on Wednesday to strike for 24 hours on November 4 if they cannot reach agreement with the firm on pay and working conditions. The management of Royal Mail, which listed on the London stock market …

LONDON (Reuters) – Workers at newly privatised Royal Mail postal service voted on Wednesday to strike on November 4 if they have not reached agreement with the firm over pay and working conditions. The Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents postal workers, sent ballot papers to over 115,000 Royal Mail …

Chuka Umunna Showed 'Utter Naivety' On Royal Mail Flotation, Say ToriesHuffington Post UKChuka Umunna, Labour's shadow business secretary, has been accused of "utter naivety" by Tories for urging the government to delay the Royal Mail share sale because the shares were priced too cheaply, before their price soared nearly 50% …

Royal Mail workers vote to go on national 24-hour strike on 4 November, the CWU postal union announces More: continued here

Royal Mail shares close up 38pc at 455p, the biggest one day rise of a privatised company, as systems buckled under demand and traders saw 48m buyers line up against 1.2m sellers         More: continued here

Royal Mail Group Ltd. (RMG) workers voted for strike action less than a week after the U.K. postal service’s 1.7 billion pound ($2.72 billion) initial public offering, which unions say will put jobs at risk. More: continued here

Telegraph.co.uk Royal Mail: shareholders unable to sell as vital emails fail to arriveTelegraph.co.ukMany people who bought Royal Mail shares through the official government website were still unable to sell their holdings this morning because emails containing a vital reference number, promised yesterday, have not arrived. The company running the …and more » …

Royal Mail workers are expected to announce plans for industrial action on Wednesday in a bitter row over the company's sell-off, pay and pensions. More: continued here

Some people who bought Royal Mail shares still cannot sell them because they have not received crucial reference numbers promised yesterday.         More: continued here

Herald Scotland Strike threat to newly privatised Royal MailChannel 4 NewsShares in Royal Mail gained 15p when formal trading started on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday, making them almost 50 per cent more valuable than the government's price tag last week. They were first sold for 330p per share …