Tag Archives: Employment

As the festive seasons draw near, many will be looking to earn some extra cash. And with Christmas its busiest time of the year, Royal Mail is in need of extra hands. The postal service has recently added hundreds of job vacancies online with the hope of recruiting more team …

Posties in Hull are on strike again today fighting for their jobs amidst the “Uberisation” of the Royal Mail. Staff at Hull’s depot joined the 115,000 postal workers across the country in a mass two-day walkout for today and tomorrow. The strike will be followed by 19 further days of …

Royal Mail workers are set to hold 19 days of strike action during peak postal times in the lead up to Christmas. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) said that strikes over pay and condition disputes will cover Black Friday and Cyber Monday – two of the busiest shopping days of …

If you’re in need of a bit of extra cash this Christmas, one of the best options might be a seasonal role at Royal Mail. Every year the postal service hires thousands of additional temporary workers to handle the increased volume of cards, letters and parcels being sent around the …

Dog owners across Derbyshire and the rest of the UK have been told to relax after a Royal Mail employee revealed the real reason why some letters arrive marked with a ‘P’. Many of them had been concerned that it was a secret code, connected to something more sinister regarding …

Press play to listen to this article LONDON — As Liz Truss gets down to work as Britain’s new prime minister, she faces an immediate problem. Half the British workforce appears to be going on strike. Across the country, rail workers, barristers, dockhands, bus drivers, garbage collectors, Amazon employees, and …

From Friday 115,000 Royal Mail workers are going on strike in what has been called the “biggest strike of summer so far”. Workers gathered at the Penarth Road sorting office in Cardiff to make their case. On the picket line, Communication Workers Union branch chair and postal executive member Katrina …

Postal workers have been pictured at picket lines in Cornwall today (August 26) as part of an action that includes thousands of other workers across the country who are in a dispute over pay and working conditions. In Truro, some members taking part in the industrial action had been at …

Postal workers in Stoke-on-Trent have joined 115,000 Royal Mail colleagues across the country in what union leaders have described as ‘the biggest strike of the summer so far’. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is calling for a ‘dignified, proper pay rise’, with members voting overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action. …

Unions representing millions of workers in the UK are seeing a greater willingness to strike, as the cost of living worsens and living standards drop at their sharpest rate since the 1950s. While wages stagnate and inflation soars, many workers have seen their wages cut in real terms, setting up …