ROYAL Mail is expanding its apprenticeship scheme offering up to 31 roles in Yorkshire, it has been announced. The postal apprenticeship roles will be focussed on school and college leavers. It follows on from the company’s 2021 launch of its new apprenticeship programme. The scheme will offer Level 2 Apprenticeships …
Read More »Postal workers begin voting on strike
115,000 postal workers have started voting on whether to commence strike action over pay. The ballots have today (28 June) began landing at the homes of members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents postal workers, and the result will be known on 19 July. The union is …
Read More »postal workers and doctors threaten strikes
Further strikes over pay in 2022 are looking more likely, as a union representing Royal Mail staff presses for an “inflation-based” and “no-strings” pay award and a doctors’ union demands a 30% increase. More that 115,000 Royal Mail and Parcelforce workers are voting this week on whether to strike over …
Read More »Dividend yields and getting caught on the turn
High yields can signify the end of good times Circumspection is required late in the economic cycle Sometimes stock screens get caught out by a changing of the guard in economic and market cycles. Being totally frank, investors should think twice about many of the companies that are flying high …
Read More »Royal Mail strike: Will Britain face more strikes? | UK | News
The Communication Workers Union opened a ballot on Tuesday, June 28 for 115,000 Royal Mail postal workers to stage a national strike about low pay. The union argued Royal Mails’ profits quadrupled in the financial year to March 2021 due to the Covid pandemic, but workers face conditions the CWU …
Read More »Royal Mail staff vote on ‘biggest strike’ of summer as tram walkout begins | Royal Mail
Royal Mail workers have begun voting on whether to walk out in a dispute over salary rises that could become the biggest strike this summer, while tram drivers have begun a 48-hour strike in south London in a separate row over pay. About 115,000 members of the Communication Workers Union …
Read More »Royal Mail workers could be the next to strike
Sky News published this video item, entitled “Royal Mail workers could be the next to strike” – below is their description. Royal Mail workers who are members of the Communication Workers Union are to vote on strike action. The CWU leader Dave Ward says they are pushing for a settlement, …
Read More »Postal workers being balloted over strike action during summer period
The largest industrial action taken by workers this summer could be set to move ahead with postal workers beginning to be balloted. It comes as members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU), which represents postal workers, start to vote on whether to strike in a dispute over pay. The union …
Read More »Royal Mail Health launched to support communities around the UK
28 June 2022 Transport / Logistics Services Royal Mail Health, a new division of the UK postal operator, has been launched to work into the ‘healthcare at home’ industry. The postal operator is working with pharmacies and other healthcare providers to meet people’s healthcare needs at home. This builds on its …
Read More »Union ballots 115,000 Royal Mail staff over ‘biggest strike’ of the summer
It demanded that the company negotiates to secure a “straight, no-strings pay increase” for employees. A spokesman for the CWU said: “Britain’s postal workers are being forced into accepting a massive pay cut by the same people they have generated incredible profits for. “Our members are going to food banks …
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