Royal Mail

Parcelforce staff vote against Royal Mail privatisationFinancial TimesThe government has received a blow to its plan to privatise the Royal Mail after workers at Parcelforce voted to reject the move. Almost 3,500 members of the Communication Workers Union voted in a consultative ballot by more than nine to one against …

Peter Mandelson today insisted that the government would press ahead with plans to part-privatise the Royal Mail despite the prospect of the biggest backbench rebellion since Gordon Brown became prime minister. A total of 67 Labour MPs, including the former ministers Frank Dobson, Malcolm Wicks and Michael Meacher, have signed …

UPDATE 1-UK seeks firms to help sell Royal Mail shares to publicReutersLONDON Aug 7 (Reuters) – The British government has invited stockbrokers to apply to help sell shares in the Royal Mail postal service to members of the public as part of a planned stock market listing. The 497-year-old institution …

Royal Mail boss payments revealedThis is CornwallThe chief executive of Royal Mail received almost £1.5 million in pay and benefits in the last financial year, although she is returning £120,000 paid towards the cost of buying a house. Moya Greene's salary remained at £498,000, but extras included … More: continued …

Royal Mail apologises for 'significant disruption' and blames unions for walking out on talks to avert second wave of strikes Britain braced itself tonight for a second wave of postal disruption as unions said more 24-hour strikes were set to go ahead after talks collapsed. Leaders of the Communication Workers …

LONDON (Reuters) – The British government has invited stockbrokers to apply to help sell shares in the Royal Mail postal service to members of the public as part of a planned stock market listing. The 497-year-old institution is to be floated by the end of March 2014, the country's biggest …

Communication Workers Union sets Thursday deadline for deal with Royal Mail, raising threat of post strike seven days later Leaders of the postal workers union have threatened to start a national postal strike on Thursday next week unless Royal Mail can submit to a list of demands in the next …

Scotsman REFILE-UK seeks firms to help sell Royal Mail shares to publicReutersLONDON Aug 7 (Reuters) – The British government has invited stockbrokers to apply to help sell shares in the Royal Mail postal service to members of the public as part of a planned stock market listing. The 497-year-old institution …

General secretary of Communication Workers Union delivers warning as postal workers begin second round of walkouts Industrial action by postal workers could escalate into longer walkouts, a union leader has warned, as postal workers take to picket lines across the country for a second round of strikes. Billy Hayes, the …

Postcard protest at Royal Mail sell-off planThis is CornwallHoniton Senior Voice chairman Vic Bowsher added: "As someone who lives in a rural area I know how important Royal Mail is, especially to seniors in more isolated areas. "We are sending a message that the sell-off is opposed by 67% of …