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Royal Mail staff are set to strike again. It is due to a dispute over pay.
From tomorrow (October 20), workers will walk out on 18 days from October to December – covering the busy run-up to Christmas Day – including Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Over summer more than 100,000 postal workers took industrial action. The CWU said members felt forced into such a position after fighting for a ‘dignified, proper pay rise’.
The union rejected an offer of a 2 per cent pay rise. The CWU believed an increase at this level would lead to a “dramatic reduction” in workers’ living standards because of soaring inflation. When the latest strikes were announced, CWU general secretary Dave Ward said the decision “matched the level of anger” members felt.
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Royal Mail says people should post items as early as possible in advance of strike dates and continue to send items via post boxes or Post Offices – but it warns that collections will be less frequent on days when strike action is taking place
Strike action is planned for the following dates:
- October 20
- October 25
- November 2
- November 3
- November 4
- November 8
- November 9
- November 10
- November 14
- November 15
- November 16
- November 23
- November 24
- November 25
- November 28
- November 30
- December 1
- December 2
Royal Mail has also announced its intention to consult on up to 6,000 redundancies. The firm said the move is in response to the “impact of industrial action, delays in delivering agreed productivity improvements and lower parcel volumes”.
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