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With Christmas around the corner, Royal Mail are advertising for extra posties to work in Essex during the festive season. Sorting offices around the county see their workload boom over Christmas, as online shopping needs delivering and cards and gifts are sent to friends and relatives. In order to ensure …

Supermarkets and High Street shops are taking on extra staff for Christmas and one is promising to help arrange shifts around family commitments. Tesco in Grimsby says it is looking for workers who can help give customers some extra help at Christmas. In return it says ‘family and lifestyle commitments’ …

Shops and businesses across the region are currently gearing themselves up for the busiest time of the year. And Christmas is when retails businesses, large and small, put out the call in a bid to get some extra help. Festive jobs can be a great way to boost your income, …

Royal Mail staff have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action. It comes amid an ongoing dispute between workers and the firm over jobs security and terms of employment. Although dates for the strike have not yet been revealed, the BBC reports that the union could be considering targeting the …

A seven-day long strike at a Merseyside postal depot is today over after Royal Mail bosses took the case to the High Court in London. Posties at the Bootle and Seaforth delivery office on Trinity Industrial Estate this morning reluctantly returned to work following the week-long walkout. The dispute surfaced …

Managers are being driven into a striking Royal Mail depot to cope with an ongoing week-long walkout following an alleged Islamophobic incident. Last week, the ECHO revealed how posties at the Bootle and Seaforth delivery office on Trinity Industrial Estate had taken sudden industrial action. It followed claims a female …

Royal Mail are recruiting hundreds of people ahead of the Christmas rush over the next few months. The postal service are currently looking for Christmas casual staff at their Warrington and Chester mail centres, with vacancies at their Liverpool centres predicted to open up soon. Both centres are looking for …

A strike sparked by a manager’s alleged racist comment to a post office worker has now spread to a neighbouring county. On Wednesday, more than 50 workers set up a picket line at the Bootle and Seaforth delivery office on Trinity Industrial Estate in Sefton. It followed claims that a …

Around 70 postal workers protested outside a Nottingham delivery office on Tuesday (October 1). The workers, who met outside Glaisdale Delivery Office, have vowed to fight for justice in response to the “unfair dismissal” of one of the workers. As well as the national ballot taking place, members at the …

A Royal Mail investigation into bullying and harassment at a Devon delivery office continues. Postal workers at the Ivybridge office went out on strike “in support of a colleague” after an alleged “bullying” incident with management back in July this year. At the time, Royal Mail confirmed that it had …