[ad_1] Royal Mail has spelled out proposals to end six-day-a-week letter deliveries in a submission to postal regulator Ofcom. The plan will see the destruction of up to 17,800 jobs at the national carrier. The projected job cuts are part of a global war against postal and logistics workers—including at Amazon, UPS and the US…
[ad_1] In a heated disagreement over wages and conditions, Royal Mail employees have begun a wave of strikes that will last until Christmas Eve. More than 115,000 workers walked out on Friday, the 13th day of strike action this year, with more to come in the coming days. While millions of pieces of mail will…
[ad_1] Britain’s two main pseudo-left groups, the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and Socialist Party (SP), are scrambling to shore up the authority of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) bureaucracy in the face of mounting opposition to its capitulation before Royal Mail. In opposition to an enforced pay award of just 2 percent and the implementation…
[ad_1] Royal Mail has launched a consultation on the Royal Mail Collective Pension Plan, seeking views from CWU, Unite, employees of Royal Mail Group and employees of RM Property and Facilities Solutions Limited currently in the Royal Mail Pension Plan (RMPP). Under the proposals, those who have been with Royal Mail for more than 1…
[ad_1] With a raft of changes mapped out for the industry, pensions minister Guy Opperman says reforms will place customers at their core. With a raft of changes mapped out for the industry, pensions minister Guy Opperman says reforms will place customers at their core. This government has delivered pension reforms which has led to…
[ad_1] UK: Bootle Royal Mail workers’ strike sold out by Communication Workers Union By Robert Stevens 10 October 2019 An unofficial strike by Royal Mail delivery workers against management racism was sold out yesterday by the Communications Workers Union (CWU), after a scabbing operation enforced by the police. The strike by around 50 postal…