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London CNN Business  —  Britain is bracing for further disruption from strikes heading into the Christmas period, as ambulance drivers and nurses join rail operators and postal workers in the worst wave of walkouts the country has endured for at least a decade. More than 20,000 ambulance workers, including paramedics …

Currys has dropped Royal Mail as a delivery provider to avoid damage from one of the country’s most bitter industrial disputes in the crucial run up to Christmas. The FTSE 250 electricals retailer has taken the decision to stop using Royal Mail ahead of its most important trading period, according …

Families will have one less week to post Christmas presents to loved ones elsewhere in the country this year as strike action brings the postal service to its knees. Royal Mail has brought forward the last date for guaranteed festive deliveries by a week. It now recommends sending first class …

Royal Mail has been warned it must stop using the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse for late deliveries even as it grapples with nationwide strikes. Ofcom, the communications regulator, has been investigating Royal Mail after it missed official performance targets because of Covid. The watchdog said it had decided Royal …

Royal Mail workers are to launch a fresh wave of strikes throughout December in a round of industrial action set to cause misery for millions of households posting gifts in the run up to Christmas. The walkouts have been organised by the Communication Workers’ Union amid a row with the …

Nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are to strike for two days in December – their biggest walkout in NHS history. After the Government rejected nurses’ demands for a stonking 19pc pay rise, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) says it “has no choice”. While RCN nurses will provide …

Talks with Bantry Bay are understood to be at an advanced stage with Superdry hopeful that a deal could be agreed as early as this week, City sources added. No agreement has been signed and a deal could yet fall apart, they added.  Superdry operates 740 branded stores across 61 …

LONDON – Strikers from the CWU Trade Union attend the picket line at Peckham Royal Mail centre on November 24, 2022 in London, England. Strikes planned for the Black Friday weekend and the run-up to Christmas will go ahead after talks between Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union ended …

London CNN Business  —  Britain’s cost-of-living crisis is already taking the shine off Black Friday. Now, the annual shopping bonanza faces an additional threat from strikes that could disrupt deliveries, subdue online sales and deliver another blow to the slumping economy. Some 235,000 workers have gone on strike across the …

Postal workers began further strike action on Thursday morning after Royal Mail tabled what it said was its “final offer”. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said the public would see the “end of Royal Mail as we know it” as 115,000 workers walked out. Strike action is to take place …