ROYAL Mail is being urged to scrap a planned shake-up of delivery office opening times in North Ayrshire. The postal service has revealed proposals to push back start times across the UK, which would mean customers and rural businesses receiving mail much later in the day. Under the new plans, …
Read More »Royal Mail warns on ‘material’ UK losses if strikes proceed
Royal Mail has warned that its UK postal service will be “materially lossmaking” this year if a series of proposed strikes takes place across four days in August and September. The company said on Wednesday that the Communication Workers Union planned to organise strikes on August 26 and 31, as …
Read More »Royal Mail strike over August and September says CWU union
Royal Mail postal workers have announced strike action over four days in August and September. Over 115,000 postal workers are to stage a series of strikes. It will impact the coming weeks in a dispute over pay, the Communication Workers Union has confirmed. The CWU has said that it will be the biggest …
Read More »Deliveries and collections to shut down during Royal Mail strike, union warns
All Royal Mail deliveries and collections will be “shut down” across Renfrewshire during four days of strike action, a union has warned. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) says services will be disrupted as a result of the industrial action, set to take place on August 26 and 31, as well as …
Read More »Royal Mail warns of ‘negative commercial impact’ of postal worker strikes
R oyal Mail has warned that planned strikes by more than 100,000 workers will make the company “materially loss-making” in the current financial year. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are set to walk out on August 26 and 31 and on September 8 and 9 in a dispute …
Read More »‘No letters for four days’ when 115,000 Royal Mail workers go on strike this month
More than 115,000 postal workers will stage a series of strikes in August and September to demand a “dignified, proper pay rise”. Britons can expect disruption to postal services on Friday 26 August, Wednesday 31 and 8 and 9 September, when the industrial action will take place. Royal Mail said …
Read More »Royal Mail says four days of strikes will push it to loss | Royal Mail
Royal Mail has said the planned four days of strikes by 100,000 postal workers will push the company to a significant loss in the current financial year. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) have announced they will take strike action around the August bank holiday weekend, on 26 and …
Read More »Royal Mail staff to stage four-day strike action
Royal Mail postman Some 115,000 Royal Mail workers are set to strike on four days in August and September in a dispute over pay. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said workers would walk out on 26 and 31 August and 8 and 9 September. The move comes as Royal Mail …
Read More »Strike in pay dispute ‘could send Royal Mail into red’ | Business
Royal Mail has confirmed what its long-suffering investors already knew: that forthcoming strikes over an unresolved pay dispute will not only bring the business to a standstill but also hit it hard financially. After news that 115,000 Royal Mail workers in the Communication Workers Union plan 24-hour industrial actions this …
Read More »Royal Mail warns of full-year loss if four days of strikes go ahead
The decision to strike came after last month’s ballot, which saw employees vote 97.6% in favour of walking out on a 77% turnout. // Royal Mail warns it could post a loss in the UK for the full-year 2022-23, if four days of strike called by the CWU in August …
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