Public support for Mick Lynch’s crippling Christmas strikes is tanking – including amongst his own members who will lose up to £5,000 – as pickets thinned out massively today. Britain faces another Covid-style lockdown with the festive season now in ruins for the third year running and businesses face losing …
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So THIS is where all your Christmas presents and post are: Letter and parcels are seen piling up outside Royal Mail centre as workers are set to stage fresh 48-hour strike from tomorrow Royal Mail workers will stage a 8-hour strike from Wednesday, December, 14 The final posting dates for …
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Last ditch talks to stop this month’s rail strike hell collapsed today, meaning Britain faces another miserable ‘virtual Christmas’. Walkouts will commence from tomorrow after the RMT union’s decision to reject a new pay deal, which, along with heavy snow, is threatening to grind the country to a halt through the …
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Royal Mail staff, nurses, paramedics, rail workers and Border Force officials will all stage walkouts over jobs, pay and conditions this month as Brits prepare for mayhem over Christmas. December is being described as the ‘new winter of discontent’ – with bus workers, baggage handlers, environment agency staff and paramedics …
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Huge piles of undelivered post are reportedly being left out in the elements at a Royal Mail Centre. Staff at the Filton, Bristol, site also claim they have been told by management to bin flyers and promotional mail with questions raised by the union over the legality of that decision. …
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Ministers have declined an offer from nursing union bosses to postpone a strike due to cripple the NHS next week in exchange for face-to-face talks over pay. The Royal College of Nursing had offered to ‘press pause’ on a walkout in exchange for discussions with health Secretary Steve Barclay, amid …
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They don’t understand the upset and misery it causes’: Families and small business owners describe the impact of strikes on their lives this Christmas Families and small business owners claim strikes are inflicting misery on lives Royal Mail action could be ‘the final nail in the coffin’ for small businesses ‘Hundreds of …
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Christmas cards ‘won’t arrive until February’ because of Royal Mail backlogs, union sources have warned, as hundreds of postal workers marched with ‘Grinch Lynch’ on the first day of mass walkouts. Communication Workers Union (CWU) members congregated outside Parliament in central London yesterday – joined by RMT union leader Mick Lynch …
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New details on Royal Mail’s Christmas strikes have been revealed, with customers warned to ‘allow plenty of time’ for festive post and presents to arrive, as the second of seven strikes before Christmas commences. Britain is facing the prospect of a winter of chaos with industrial action set to cripple …
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Thousands of postal workers are taking a further day of strikes today as the UK braces itself for a Christmas of industrial actions. Around 11,000 members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) have been locked in a dispute over changes to working conditions with Royal Mail and shows little sign …
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