Post Office workers are to stage fresh strikes in escalating action over pay. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) will walk out on August 26, 27 and 30, with some of the action coinciding with strikes by BT, Openreach and Royal Mail employees. It will be the fourth round …
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Post Office workers will stage fresh strikes on for three days in August as part of an escalating row over pay, continuing the summer of discontent. The Communication Workers Union (CWU) announced Post Office workers will take industrial action on August 26, 27 and 30. BT and Openreach workers will also …
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Teachers’ union issues fresh strike threat as seven out of 10 members say 5% pay award should be rejected as unacceptable The NASUWT says there is anger at the below-inflation 5% pay award on offer General secretary Dr Patrick Roach said the proposals ‘fall way short’ of demand The union …
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EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Liz Truss’s Sturgeon comments could be a right royal blunder By Ephraim Hardcastle for the Daily Mail Published: 20:54 EDT, 11 August 2022 | Updated: 21:20 EDT, 11 August 2022 Liz Truss’s refusal to apologise to Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for calling her an attention-seeker who should …
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‘Pushed to the brink’ Dave Ward, general secretary of the CWU, said: “Nobody takes the decision to strike lightly, but postal workers are being pushed to the brink. There can be no doubt that postal workers are completely united in their determination to secure the dignified, proper pay rise they …
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Stamps with the Queens Head will soon disappear from letters as a new barcode system is set to be brought in to replace them. From January 31, 2023, you won’t be able to use the current style of stamps that feature an image of The Queen ‘s head. Instead, only …
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More Britons are turning to cash to manage their budgets as prices soar, the Post Office said on Monday after it saw a record level of withdrawals over its counters in July. Personal cash withdrawals rose almost 8% month-on-month to 801 million pounds ($967 million), it said, noting it was …
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By Rory Tingle and James Robinson for MailOnline It has been more than two decades since Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein first crossed paths. That meeting would set in motion years of damaging allegations, embarrassing interviews and eventually a US lawsuit against the Queen’s third son. Over the next 23 …
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Royal Albert Hall trustees hawk their tickets to Last Night Of The Proms for up to £1,200 – two years after taxpayer bailed out struggling concert hall with £20m cash injection Almost a quarter of Royal Albert Hall’s 5,272 seats are owned by 330 members The RAH urges them to …
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Pharmacies in crisis as 650 disappear from the high street in six years One in 18 pharmacies have shut since 2016, with one fifth closing in some areas Chemists said ‘Amazonification’ of medicine supplies has brought many down Most have disappeared because of the increasing financial burden on them By …
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