A depressing sense of deja vu greets the news that the Communication Workers Union, which represents most of Royal Mail’s 150,000 workers, is balloting members for industrial action. It is less than two years since the last national postal strikes over pay and proposed changes in working to eradicate what …
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Read More »Royal Mail Boss Crozier Hits Out At Unions (Ananova)
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Read More »Priority Mailing and Digital Print becomes ISO 14001 certified – PrintWeek
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Read More »New leads in Aberdeen raid probe – BBC News
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Read More »Delivery offices in mail strike – BBC News
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Read More »‘Modern’ mail? – guardian.co.uk
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Read More »Postal workers and Royal Mail in talks over strike action (Guardian Unlimited)
Royal Mail says ballot for national strike is ‘totally unjustified’ Senior Royal Mail managers and union leaders were in talks over the company’s modernisation plans today amid growing prospects of national industrial action. The decision by the postal workers’ union to send ballot papers on a countrywide strike to 121,000 …
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