Royal Mail is making an application to the high court to try to block workers from staging a strike over job security and employment conditions that it says risks having an impact on the UK’s general election. The company claims there were “potential irregularities” in the ballot of Communication Workers …
Read More »Royal Mail seeks court order over next month’s walkout
Royal Mail, which in the run-up to Christmas and the general election faces its first nationwide walkouts in a decade, plans to seek a court order against the industry trade union, saying that the strike ballot was unlawful and therefore “null and void”. The postal operator, ahead of its busiest …
Read More »Royal Mail seeks to block potential Christmas strike
Royal Mail Plc said on Friday that it would apply for an interim order from the High Court to block a potential strike by its biggest union, the Communication Workers Union, saying it believed the strike ballot had been unlawful. Royal Mail said it was worried by the potential …
Read More »Labour’s confused plans for nationalising industry
Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell. Do Labour’s plans for nationalisation stack up? Photo: Matt Crossick/Matt Crossick/Empics Entertainment Privatisation, Margaret Thatcher’s flagship domestic policy, is under attack, amid mounting public complaints about energy prices and rail fares, late and cancelled trains and alleged exploitation by rapacious and environmentally irresponsible water companies. Spotting …
Read More »Battle for the Soul of Great Britain
The UK general election is less than 5 weeks away. The winner will change the face of the UK for decades. Nearly every pollster had Johnson in front, but no one is really confident of the numbers. Radical Marxist Corbyn In a forced distribution scheme, Labour Proposes Workers to Get …
Read More »Profits at south Derry construction group rise four-fold
PROFITS at south Derry construction group Conway increased more than four-fold to £6.5 million last year, a new report produced by the company has shown. It followed a 12 month period where the Magherafelt-based contractor recorded a turnover of just under £22m, a 27.7 per cent rise on its 2017 …
Read More »RSL blasts inquiry into veteran suicides
Scott Morrison is considering ordering a royal commission into veteran suicides, but the RSL has queried the “costly and unwarranted” idea. The prime minister floated the inquiry after meeting the mothers of six army veterans who took their own lives. “I haven’t ruled it out, it’s something that I am …
Read More »How to change your house name
The Highways Department will tell Royal Mail of an approved name change, but you can also notify it by updating your address form at royalmail.com. Source link
Read More »Xmas stamps to feature the Nativity
THE nativity story is to feature on the Royal Mail’s Christmas stamps this year, depicting the story from the annunciation to the birth of Jesus and the journey of the Magi. The biblically themed stamps have been welcomed by the Bishop of St Asaph, the Rt Revd Gregory Cameron, who …
Read More »Fulwood bus service 23 cut short due to consistently severe delays
A major bus route serving a well-populated area of Preston has been cut short. Preston Bus service 23 will only operate from the city centre and terminate at the new Aldi across from Sherwood Way during the week at evening peak periods. The disruption has fallen into place with immediate …
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