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Up to 170,000 telecom and postal workers will take six days of selective strike action across Britain from Friday. The largest contingent in the national strike action are 115,000 post workers at Royal Mail who strike across 1,500 workplaces August 26/31 and September 8/9. This is the first national strike …

A postal worker union had the best response after Royal Mail stuck the boot in over their strikes. More than 115,000 UK postal workers will go on strike for four days later this month and early in September. And members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) have voted for further …

A ll Royal Mail deliveries and collections will be “shut down” across Scotland during four days of strike action, a union has warned. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said services will be disrupted as a result of the industrial action, set to take place on August 26 and 31 as …

BT Group was hit Friday by a walkout of 40,000 call centre staff and engineers taking part in the first day of their 48-hour national strike action which will continue next Monday. This is the first company-wide strike action in 35 years. The members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) …

The Communication Workers Union (CWU) has expertly trolled Royal Mail after the company’s workers vote to take strike action. Yesterday, postal service workers at Royal Mail voted in a ballot to take strike action in a dispute over pay. The vote comes not long after rail workers with the RMT …

ROYAL MAIL managers are fighting back against “savage” plans to axe 700 jobs and slash pay by up to £7,000 by launching industrial action next week. Their union Unite announced today that following an overwhelming vote for strikes last month, 2,400 managers will engage in “work to rule” action, refusing to complete tasks …

Royal Mail has accused Unite of misleading its members after more than 2,000 managers voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action, and action short of a strike. Unite said that some 2,400 Royal Mail managers working across more than 1,000 delivery offices had voted by 86% for strike action …

Thousands of BT telecoms and call centre staff could strike within weeks. On June 15, the Communication Workers Union (CWU) balloted workers in three categories—BT, Openreach and EE subsidiaries—across the BT group. If the strike goes ahead it will be the first national stoppage of BT workers in 35 years. …

PARCEL delivery chaos beckons, Unite has warned, after its members in Royal Mail voted to strike over more job cuts.  The union slammed the privatised company on Wednesday evening, saying it was “awash with cash” while trying to axe 542 front-line managerial positions on top of the 420 jobs already lost. About 2,400 managers …

POSTAL workers began voting today on whether to walk out over “despicable” treatment, in what could become the biggest strike this summer.  About 115,000 Communication Workers Union (CWU) members have been sent ballots on whether to take industrial action in the coming weeks.  The union is calling on the Royal …