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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 …

This Thursday (July 14) supply chain and administration workers will take industrial action over an effective pay cut at a time when inflation has reached record levels. Communication Workers Union (CWU) members working across the remaining Crown Post Office branches are demanding a pay rise that matches inflation instead of …

Post Office workers at high street branches today walked out for 24 hours in a row over pay. The strike is taking place today (Monday July 11) and involves about 1,500 people who staff the Crown Post Offices – the larger branches usually sited on high streets. The Communication Workers …

For a lot of shoppers, going to a designer shop would seem like a luxury experience. Aisles of clothes stacked in neat piles, colorfully coordinated, while friendly staff members wait nearby to lend a hand – all creating a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. But underneath the surface, a lot of …

Unite Union has confirmed that managers at Royal Mail are now planning to go on strike this month. The union has confirmed dates when staff will stage walkouts across the country in July. The action has been called in response to plans for pay cuts, as well as the loss …

Royal Mail customers are facing a summer of disruption after managers voted to walk out over threats to jobs, pay and working conditions. Staff say they are furious over plans to remove 542 frontline delivery managers, alongside a redeployment programme to bring in worsening terms and conditions. Workers’ union Unite …