New updates are being added at the bottom of this story……. Original story (published on November 10, 2022) follows: Royal Mail is a postal service company that operates throughout the United Kingdom. It is one of the most traditional and long-lived British companies, existing since 1516. Just in case you’re …
Read More »Increasing number of workers taking strike action over pay
A sign held by a postal worker from the Communication Workers Union on the picket line at the Royal Mail Whitechapel Delivery Office in east London The number of workers on strike or voting to take industrial action is increasing, threatening a winter of disruption to services ranging from the …
Read More »Winter of Discontent 2022: Which services and sectors are striking?
A round 100,000 civil servants have voted to go on strike, joining nurses, rail workers, university staff and potentially teachers in industrial action that threatens to cripple public services in the coming weeks. Workers represented by the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union, backed industrial action in strike ballots called …
Read More »Covid-19 claims another life in East Renfrewshire
Another life has been lost to Covid-19 in East Renfrewshire. Latest figures released by National Records of Scotland (NRS), covering the week ending November 6, show the total number of deaths in the area since the pandemic began two-and-a-half years ago has risen to 313. It is the fourth week …
Read More »Edinburgh cyclist Deacon Thurston spots Royal Mail workers on their phones while driving
An Edinburgh cyclist has captured three Royal Mail workers on their phones while driving in the past six months on his Go-Pro camera while out on the city’s streets. Self-proclaimed ‘GoPro-adorned Knight of the Active Travel Lobby’, Deacon Thurston raised the issue on Twitter with Royal Mail, after spotting drivers …
Read More »Royal Mail and the Scottish Government are slow with deliveries
Edward Mountain. Receiving letters and parcels before midday has been the expectation for many up and down the country for generations. However, the Royal Mail’s restructuring plans are set to drastically change delivery times altogether. The company now wants posties to start their working day later and therefore finish later. …
Read More »The allure of ‘delight qualities’
If you were to ask which single business concept deserves to be more widely known, I would be hard-pressed to find a better answer than the Kano model. Developed in the 1980s by Dr Noriaki Kano at the Tokyo University of Science, it is not only self-evidently true, it also …
Read More »Increasing number of workers taking strike action over pay
The number of workers on strike or voting to take industrial action is increasing, threatening a winter of disruption to services ranging from the NHS and transport to postal deliveries and universities. Here are some of the disputes which have led to strikes or ballots for action: – RMT and …
Read More »Government services set to grind to a halt with public sector strikes
Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Britain faces “extraordinary disruption” at its borders and crucial government services grinding to a halt if planned public sector strikes go ahead. Some 100,000 civil …
Read More »Teenage wartime evacuee Bridget Lawson became a Royal Canadian Navy decoder
Bridget Lawson, centre, worked in Africa in later life for AMREF, a non-governmental organization that provides health care in East Africa. From 1984 to 1990, she was executive director of AMREF Canada and travelled to Africa twice a year.Courtesy of the Family The Second World War first altered the life …
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