Royal Mail managers strike dates announced

• 7 July 2022
• Transport / Logistics Services

Royal Mail managers are to work to rule between 15th and 19th July and strike between the 20th and 22nd July. This comes after a successful vote by Unite the union members for industrial action over pay and job cuts.

The postal operator announced healthy profits in the last financial year, which has enraged staff who are now faced with pay and job cuts.

When the 2,400 managers walk out, Unite says that deliveries and tracked deliveries will be delayed.

Royal Mail has hit back at the industrial action, saying there are ‘no grounds’ for the strike and that it had contingency plans to minimise disruption.

The managers are walking out over plans to cut 700 jobs and pay by as much as £7,000 a year. Royal Mail however said, “56% of workers have had an increase and others have had their pay protected at their substantive grade”.

A spokesperson for the postal operator said that the 700 job losses were planned and have happened following an “extended consultation and achieved through voluntary redundancy.”

Unite’s general secretary, Sharon Graham, said Royal Mail was “awash with cash but it is putting profits and dividends for the few at the top ahead of its duties as a public service”.

“There is not a single aspect of these cuts which is about improving customer service. They are being driven entirely by a culture of greed and profiteering which has seized a 500-year-old essential service, driving it close to ruin.

“Our members are determined to force the business to take a different path, and they have the full backing of Unite.”