What we’ve done with today’s research is that we’ve actually spoken to audiences, rather than presenters of various programmes or commentators, and what the audience told us is what we’ve what we’ve published today Cristina Nicolotti Squires, Ofcom’s broadcasting director Source link
Read More »No plans to reduce six-day Royal Mail service, says Business Secretary
T he Business Secretary said she does not have plans to approve the Royal Mail switching to a five-days-a-week operation. Kemi Badenoch suggested to MPs that allowing the Royal Mail to shed its Saturday delivery and pick-up duties would mean it “stops being the service which you want”. The Royal …
Read More »Royal Mail bosses accused of pointing fingers over ‘rogue posters’
T op bosses from Royal Mail have been accused of blaming others after admitting the business had broken its own rules after posters appeared which compared how long different workers were pausing on the job. MP Darren Jones, who chairs the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee said he …
Read More »Royal Mail workers vote to continue strikes campaign
R oyal Mail workers have voted overwhelmingly to continue with a campaign of industrial action in a bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions. A fresh ballot of members of the Communication Workers Union showed almost 96% were in favour of more strikes unless the deadlock is broken. CWU general …
Read More »Starmer urged to visit picket line as Labour members back striking workers
C alls to support striking workers received a standing ovation from Labour members, as a bacon butty was offered to tempt Sir Keir Starmer to visit a picket line. Dave Ward, general secretary of the Communication Workers Union, moved a motion aimed at committing the next Labour government to bringing …
Read More »Royal Mail rotating daily which streets do not receive letters, MPs told
R oyal Mail delivery offices across the country are deciding each day which streets do not receive letters after a “failure” in restructuring, MPs have heard. Concerns highlighted by Labour MP Barry Gardiner (Brent North) are to be raised with Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng. Mr Gardiner told the Commons: “Royal …
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